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Helping Business Communities Prepare for and Recover from Disaster

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Resources

The BCIN resources section is a place where you can find out more about business continuity best practices, assistance, literature and communities.

Videos

Creating a Business Continuity Plan
What’s in a Business Continuity Plan

Business Continuity Plan Assistance

Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety’s
Florida Division of Emergency Management’s “Get a plan” for business

Business Portals and Lists

Department of Homeland Security’s “Ready Business”
Disaster Preparedness Strategies for Small Business

Communities of Interest

Association for Contingency Planners (ACP)
InfraGard
National Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster (VOAD)

Education and Certification

The Business Continuity Institute
Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program

Organizations

DisasterAssistance.gov
Small Business Administration Disaster Assistance
Broward County Emergency Management Division
Miami Dade County Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Monroe County Emergency Management
Palm Beach County Emergency Management
US Dept of Education Emergency Planning

Periodicals, Literature and the Web

Wikipedia’s “Business Continuity Planning”
CSO Online “Business Continuity”
WikiHow, “How to create a Business Continuity Plan”

South Florida Release

The initial Business Continuity Information Network provides coverage of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe counties in cooperation with each county’s emergency management office. Participating companies include IBM, Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Verizon Wireless and FloridaFIRST—a consortium of Florida’s financial institutions focused on business continuity. Read about our Partners and Roadmap for more details.

Project Team Leads

Florida International University
School of Computing and Information Sciences
– Dr. Shu-Ching Chen, Professor, BCIN PI/Project Lead
– Steve Luis, IT Director/Business Relations, BCIN Project Manager

Publications

We have several research and application publications in conferences and journals. For more information, please review the Publications page.

For more information…

Please contact us at info@bizrecovery.org for information about the service.

Acknowledgements

The Business Continuity Information Network is funded by the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University as a public service to the community. We wish to acknowledge the generous support from the Department of Homeland Security via Grant # 2009-ST-062-000016 entitled “Information Delivery and Knowledge Discovery for Hurricane Disaster Management”, DHS Grant # 2010-ST-062-000039 entitled “A Research and Educational Framework to Advance Disaster Information Management in Computer Science PhD Programs,” the National Science Foundation via grant NSF HRD-0833093 entitled “CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering,”, and IBM through its Shared University Research Program.

BCIN Project Slide Set

Provides an overview of the BCIN project, mission, strategy, objectives, and implementation. Download.

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