 During a natural disaster, every second counts. All available resources need to be deployed to save lives. That is where DIMMS comes in. DIMMS is a digital platform that will be heavily used by disaster management stakeholders. Stakeholders such as NEMO, Firemen, Disaster Volunteers, Community Disaster Management staff, and the police. Imagine solutions incorporated and business tech research incorporated collaborated to develop the platform. The platform will enhance NEMO's ability to collect, store, access and analyze data integral to disaster management. That's going to be important to know, for example, what are the relationships we have with other companies, MOUs, what resources are available to DIMMS, who are the volunteers around the country that we can get access to, what sort of skills do they have, what sort of resources do they drive, do they not, do they have any issues, health issues and so on that prevents them from participating in certain types of scenarios, for example. The program will also play an integral role in deploying resources before, during and after natural disasters. The NEMO Secretariat has extensive data to sort through in times of national emergency. That data will be digitized and stored on the DIMMS. When a disaster strikes or as a disaster, an impending disaster like a hurricane is approaching, you want to have the information you need at the touch of a button. To be scrambling to find information at that time would not be good. So having electronic information makes that process a lot smoother, a lot simpler and a lot more efficient. DIMMS was built using an open source humanitarian platform called Sahana Eden. Open source platforms are free and can be customed to a user's needs. The original Sahana project actually emerged after the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia where there was a fairly extensive devastation and a fairly extensive relief operation following it. And at that point some persons found the need to develop something to maintain and keep track of the relief operation. Since then the project and the product have evolved. The current platform that we spoke about, Sahana Eden, was developed subsequently and it was developed in a way that it could be used as a framework that others could tailor to their own needs. Exercises were held through the course of a week to instruct stakeholders on how to use the platform. It's a good way for NIMO to keep up-to-date record of all their staff and volunteers in an event of any disaster that they can easily locate them, assign them to various functions and stuff. Not that they don't already know but then it would just be better and more modern. Sahana Eden has been used in Haiti's earthquake response in 2010 and Japan's tsunami resources deployment in 2011. Currently it is used in Taiwan for preparedness for typhoons and earthquakes. This is Jack Hengston Compton from the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project.