The world has been condemning the ISIS terror attacks that took place in Paris. So many companies belonging to the tech world are now skeptical where most of them are gearing up to prepare for worst scenarios. Some companies are now particularly focusing on disaster recovery where others have had eyes on disaster management since a fairly long span of time. The International Business Machines Corp. recently came up with a contest that will allow the developers to get access to their cloud computing platform so that they can motivate developers to come up with “disaster response-related app”
The attacks on the Parisians occurred on Friday evening where more than 129 people lost their lives whereas hundreds of individuals were reported injured. So to deal with the situation, IBM for the first time since its inception has come up with a Responder Application Challenge that will be running till December, 14, 2015.
A spokesperson belonging to the company has cleared that despite the contest was revealed three days after the Paris attack took place, but the idea was being improved by the company since the past couple of months but the launch date of the venture was decided to be November, 17, 2015.
Responder Application Challenge is in collaboration with Vencore which is an information solutions platform that offers services in analytics and engineering. The latter firm currently caters to the United States government.
It has also been reported that Vencore and IBM are also in talks with the officials belonging to Association of Public-Safety Communications and United States Geospatial and Intelligence Foundation. The idea behind this collaboration is to come up with an app ecosystem that makes way for mobile apps and predictive analytics so that the responders get the opportunity to show better efficiency.
The applications will be devised and built on the cloud platform of IBM where the aim is to leverage data so that the first responder hindrances can get solved with ease.
According to Anne Altman, IBM U.S. Federal and Government Industries’ General Manage mentioned in a statement, “The best innovation takes place when you drive toward a common goal.” She further added, “And it’s no different in government, where an ecosystem of developers, academia, technologists and others come together to address challenges.”
So now IBM is giving a platform to developers so that situations like the Paris attacks have some mercy in the form of disaster management. It is high time other tech giants do the same.
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