Gets Ready

A website (and mobile apps) that provides tools to support Neighbourhood Support Groups, the EOC (emergency operations centre), council staff and the community. This is relevant across day to day life, minor incidents (boil water notices or fire bans etc) and major incidents (earthquakes, floods, fires etc). Its primary facets are: Tools to communi... cate via multiple channels to everyone, or to specific areas or categories of people A self-managing and growing database of the entire community, Gets Ready emerged out of the Darfield community in the aftermath of the first Christchurch earthquake. They realised there was a need for better tools to work together. Out of this, Dave Askin pioneered Gets Ready with the aim of: Building partnerships between emergency services and the community. What do people say about Gets Ready? If there is one common theme about Gets Ready, it is that all of the current organisations -who use it, are passionate advocates. Here are some people you can talk to who have all used the system for years in real life situations. The highlight was when stuff website reported a member of the Darfield community being at the Darfield pub for tea, saying I got the council text, so left my meal and went to check on my property Filter and email/sms by skills, needs & resources The website is built with the most vunerable in mind, including the elderly. We aim to cater for those who rarely use technology They have access to hard or soft copies of all the data export to Word, spreadsheet and physical print outRead More