What is the Business Continuity Information Network? – Business Continuity Information Network

Studies have shown that businesses risk failure if they are unable to reopen quickly after a disaster. To reduce these risks and improve communications within the business community, Florida International University (FIU) has developed the Business Continuity Information Network (BCIN, pronounced “bee-kin”) a web-based service where local businesses, county emergency management, and organizations that assist businesses can gather to share critical information and support continuity efforts before, during and after a disaster. Available year round as a public service, this trusted, business-to-business, community network provides participating companies a tool to track their key employees and supply chain status, and locate needed recovery goods and services. If you are new to the BCIN community please take a moment to review the pages linked above to learn more about the BCIN tool and why FIU and its partners are committed to improving the ways business communities recover from disaster.

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.