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I'm intrigued by the idea of cities having gun-violence preparedness plans... do you see any parallel between this tech's application for disaster preparedness and utility in the context of responding to or preventing gun violence?
We think about crisis very broadly - from natural disasters to people-made disasters, so absolutely! What would it look like to have urban areas with specific emergency response plans for responding to gun violence? That's something we'd like to explore.
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Would this be something local agencies could use to deploy violence intervention support? Aid to families of victims or survivors of gun violence? How could this solution interrupt the crisis of firearm violence?
Yes, local agencies could use it, funders could use it, families, etc. If you think about how organizations are using NeedsList now to support specific refugee families, for example, the same approach of matching needs to resources could be used to support survivors.
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This technology seems totally applicable for the world of international development, crisis response, and humanitarian aid, but how would this apply to firearm violence?
If you think about how Facebook gets activated to allow people to mark themselves "safe" following gun violence as well as in natural disasters, the application of this technology for gun violence becomes fairly straightforward. Following gun violence, there's an outpouring of support that leads to an imbalance in "supply and "demand" that our solution rectifies. Furthermore, in terms of prevention for firearm violence, our solution allows funders and businesses to identify and support local grassroots solutions with talent, products, services, and funding. There's no reason that we can't use the same technology to support bottoms up innovation in the context of firearm violence.
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