Featured Today: AMBER Alert
Gone are the days to look out for missing children on milk cartons and junk mail flyers. Keeping up with the times, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has created an iPhone application that not only holds a repository of all missing children in the U.S., but allows the user to filter missing children by state. Kind of a chilling way to start the day, but nonetheless a great way to increase public awareness and public response. One thing I would like to see in the app are statistics and studies to how and why kids go missing in the first place, especially 2 year olds. For more posts on how nonprofits are using the iPhone, click the "Nonprofits & iPhone" category.
Who?
Amber Alert
Where to find it?
http://www.zdziarski.com/
What is it?
"This application from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is designed to help in the search and safe recovery of missing children.
It includes:
-A real-time feed of active AMBER Alerts including information about the vicitm, the abductor, and other details like the kind of vehicle they may be traveling in or the area where they may be located. -A listing of missing children from NCMEC including photos and any known details about the circumstances of their disappearence.-A listing of missing children from NCMEC organized by the states from where they are missing.
If a user has information about a case or has seen one of the missing children, they can press a button and automatically call NCMEC's toll free 24-hour hotline, or send a resport that inclues their current GPS coordinates and their phone number in case more details are needed."
Cost: Free
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