Quickly identifying vulnerable people during an emergency with a digital list of lists

The resilience community have been tackling a tricky problem for a long time. How do we effectively and quickly share data about vulnerable people when there is an emergency, while also protecting data and acting in a proportionate way.

The current best practice, the so call "list of lists", involves the collection of data from the variety of authorities and organisations about vulnerable people, and then manual sorting and de-duplicating that data. It's slow, manual, and takes up the most valuable resources during an emergency.

VIPER (Vulnerability Indicators of Properties in Emergency Response) is a highly secure online system where information about vulnerable properties can be prepared during peacetime, and accessed in an emergency. Incidents are tied to a defined geographical area, so only properties effected by an incident are released, and only to emergency responders that serve that area.

In this talk project leader, Alison Love (LRF Manager for Cumbria), Tom Styles (Chief Technology Officer at Tailwind Digital) and Seb Dadbin (Consultant at Tailwind Digital) will take you through the VIPER project from inception in Cumbria County Council to Local Digital Funded Project facilitated by Tailwind Digital through to the working prototype of the VIPER solution and the innovative legal and data sharing model that will allow the project to scale across the resilience community.