India is prone to natural disasters like flood, earthquakes, landslides, cyclones and droughts. During and after these crises, response organisations need accurate information to help communities response, recover and rebuild. Traditional communication channels are often offline and it can take significant time and resources to understand where help is desperately needed.
Facebook is making “Disaster Maps” with the data available to India’s NDMA, and Indian humanitarian organisations. Disaster Maps, which was introduced globally in June, uses aggregated, de-identified Facebook data to help organisations address the critical gap in information they often face when responding to natural disasters. Facebook is providing multiple types of maps during disaster response efforts, which will include aggregated location information people have chosen to share with this site.
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