Centralising basic contact information --- Thanks Maria and Marwa. To Marwa's main point - an obstacle I often saw raised when discussing these issues in and around IFRC was the reluctance of people to disclose their contact info, even within their organisation. This wasn't usually for good privacy reasons but often because people wanted to keep good sources to themselves. Establishing a good database on contacts is a fraught process, sometimes requiring a high level direction from the top.

Source author: Christopher Lamb christopher.lamb17@gmail.com