Happy New Year! People born in Years of the Rooster (1945, 1969, 1981) are:

Brave  Thoughtweb Inc. and Pacific Disaster Center created this superb web site on the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster for relief workers, aid agencies and interested professionals.

Observant  The UN’s World Food Program has a free, comprehensive Humanitarian Early Warning Service to monitor natural hazards and to anticipate crises. A kind of ‘dashboard of disasters’, the site is updated daily by experts.

Perfectionists  The Depository Trust Clearing Corporation is the largest clearing & settlement business in the world.Their White Paper on BCP is simply the best report we’ve seen on contingency planning in the financial sector. Thanks to John Chan at SGX for pointing us to it.

Shrewd  Eager planners in Moscow, Russia participated in our one-day Do-It-Yourself BCP™ workshop in December. WideXs, our partner for this event, is the first commercial provider of recovery facilities in Moscow. See the attendees here, from Western and Russian companies.

Our New Roost  Forbes Calamity Prevention moved next door to 75C Duxton Road in Singapore, postal code 089534. Same phone, same FAX numbers.

No roosters were harmed in the production of this webpage.  Any resemblance to roosters is purely coincidental.

Need training? We conduct public and in-house training in BCP, crisis management and emergency management. Send email to Wendy. Ask about our two-day Do-It-Yourself BCP™ course.