One of the most frustrating things about work at Information Technologies, is that one is mostly limited to Information services that have little impact in real time crises. The Google Crisis Response Team sets an example of how Information Technologies can really make a difference in the days following huge disasters. A cnn story tells how Google could set a Persons-Finder for the Japanese people a single hour after the Earth Quake. This is also a story about the creation of the response team, a story that can be a lesson to every IT organization in the world. IT is also of the culture of Google's organization, a culture that can be summarized by Google engineer Prem Ramaswami, initatior and head of Google's crisis response team:
"I work at a very special place. No manager has ever told me that I had a day job."
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