Dear all Access Indians, Search engine giant Google has launched an application "Person Finder" to offer information on missing people in flood-affected areas in the country, including Uttarakhand. Google Person Finder is a web-application that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives and friends affected by a disaster, Google said in a blog post. "Since last week, the state of Uttarakhand in India is grappling with severe floods. Given that most of these areas in the state are highly inaccessible with intermittent communication, Google Crisis team bring you the Person Finder," the blog by Jayanth Mysore, Google's APAC Senior Product Manager, said. The tool can help trace the missing persons in the flood-affected regions of Uttarakhand and is available in Hindi and English, it added. All data entered into Google Person Finder are available to the public and searchable by anyone. The programme also lets press agencies, non-governmental agencies and others cont ribute to the database and receive updates by using Person Finder API based on PFIF open standard. Isn't it amazing to know that how far Internet offers to help even in relief and rescue operation in the flood-ravaged areas! Warm regards. David Richards.
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