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Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, A family makes its way over a rubble pile at a women only school. According to the principal of the
institution over 400 people are still entombed beneath the rubble. [Date picture taken: 1 0/1 8/2005] © Edward Parsons/IRIN

We ensure global coverage ment of strategic partner- better understanding and to be interns, but I think we
are looking for a combina-
through time zones: when ships. We are interested in response.
we sign off in Geneva, the transfer of talent and
tion of education and
New York is signing on; technologies and, more On the platform side, we skills: politics, humanities,
when New York is signing importantly, our methods are implementing a new law, library sciences and
off, Kobe is signing on, etc. and standards to people search capacity and inves- technology combined with
It works well, as we have who are starting up similar tigating how to further research and information
system management skills. We are
about two hours of overlap services. Our first project is develop
our
not solely looking for per-
before any station signs with a group called technology,
off. Sons with international
Having
the RedHum in Panama, who
Coordinator in Geneva are involved with disaster Q: Do you have a relations backgrounds --
helps as it is between East response in ten countries, message for the interna- rather for people who have
and West. tional community?
interesting and compelling
We are going to help them
backgrounds, languages,
use our models with a
Q:
What are the direct benefit to them and My message is that rele- and most of all a profound
to us though shared sourc- vant and reliable informa- interest in supporting
priorities for 2007?
ing and immediate multi- tion is key to ensuring that humanitarian relief efforts.
We have a strategic plan lingual capacity. the major UN norm 'coope-
2007-2009. We are
for For further information
ration' is realized within the
please consult the
focusing on three areas: On the products side, one challenging context of
Reliefiveb:
people, products and plat- of our new products will be humanitarian coordination.
forms. On the people side, advocacy-specific. We will wwwreli'fiveb.int
we want, as far as possible, be looking at how better to Q: If somebody wanted
our service to be user-cent- cover emergencies and to do an internship with
red, in order that we equal- what to say about them, you, what should they
ly meet the information especially do?
forgotten
needs of humanitarians and emergencies. There are
our beneficiaries. At the humanitarian dimensions They should get in touch
same time, on the people in all of these areas that are with us directly. They can
side, we are looking to often neglected or over- look at the web-site and
increase our regional pre- looked. We aim to highlight apply online. We have a lot
sence through the develop- these and others to support of people who would like
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