In any humanitarian crisis, an accurate contact list is critical to help ensure an effective response. Humanitarian ID provides a "self-managed" approach to contact lists. You, as a responder, can simply "check-in" to any crisis, provide your locally relevant contact details for the contact list, and find others responding. When you leave the crisis, you simply "check-out" thereby removing your details from the contact list (and email list). The process will be painless and will only take you a few seconds. But, the approach will save countless people the current frustration of trying to find the right contacts on outdated lists.
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This is a great idea, but in reality it just doesn't quite get there. To really work this needs social media, contact list and location detection integration so it could then automatically detect when I was physically in a particular country or disaster zone. It could then let me know which of my past colleagues are also there, and profer help with connections to OCHA calendars, UNDSS updates, Reliefweb sitreps, relevant Cluster sites, etc. As is, its just more work when I'm already overloaded.