Relief 2.0 member Robn Low is interviewed by Robert Brown from Salem State University.

We have added geo-location features to our Relief 2.0 on-line platform. This way, precise postal (address) and geographical (lat, long coordinates) information can be attached to every post, content, image, field report, mission report, collaboration opportunity, etc. added to our website and displayed with the content on a map shown in the left sidebar.

We can also display all content or specific types of content or contents of a specific topic or interest in interactive maps for easier access and navigation. Mouse over the balloons in the included example, and click on them for an info pop-up balloon where you can then click on the business name to go to their detailed information page:

This is a list of businesses affected by the Big Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan participating in our Business Recovery as a Disaster Recovery Strategy Pilot in Japan. Our goal is to find matching businesses, partners and people willing to collaborate to get them to re-open their businesses and activate the local economy, generating wealth and employment as part of our "Disaster Recovery with dignity, inclusion, generation and distribution of wealth" initiative.

This is a map of businesses affected by the Big Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan participating in our Business Recovery as a Disaster Recovery Strategy Pilot in Japan. Our goal is to find matching businesses, partners and people willing to collaborate to get them to re-open their businesses and activate the local economy, generating wealth and employment as part of our "Disaster Recovery with dignity, inclusion, generation and distribution of wealth" initiative.

The first time I presented in Japan the Relief 2.0 Enterprise strategy for disaster recovery with dignity, inclusion and generation of wealth through business recovery and entrepreneurship promotion under the 4 steps approach of "Never Help: Enable, Engage, Empower and Connect", I knew I was home. Prof.

We had a second, very productive meeting with Emily Jacobi, co-founder and executive director of Digital Democracy and agreed to adapt two of their most effective projects for the recovery process in Japan:

Every morning at 8am, from Monday to Sunday, the small business owners of the commercial district near the harbor in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, get together and discuss their options, their advances, sharing hot tea, soup and noodles before going in separate ways to tend to their respective businesses. Seven days a week they do this, like they have done for the decades. Except that their business is no longer business as usual.