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Roddenberry Disaster Response Team Charter

For the 2014 pilot, there were just a few bullet points. For the continuing effort we still consider these appropriate:  

  1. The DRT will be designed, recruited, equipped and led by Eric Rasmussen of IHS and managed by Alex Hatoum of IHS both day-to-day and on deployment. Reach-back during deployment will be provided by support staff in multiple locations to match time zones
  2. The DRT is designed to serve populations that have lost access to clean water
  3. Through the emergency phase of the response, free water will be provided by the Team using locally sourced water purified for drinking using DRT resources.
  4. The Team will leave when the Response phase segues into Recovery phase, but the water purification capability will be left behind within the disaster-affected area contributing to economic reconstruction, job creation, and public health. 
  5. This Team is also responsible for assessing and reporting on damage to communications infrastructure critical for both public and private sector reconstruction efforts.  
  6. The Team will facilitate objective third party reviews 90 days post-departure to assess impact and process for both our water provisioning and communications infrastructure work. The reviews will be used to improve the design of future deployments.
  7. Team members will be supported for deployment expenses and risk mitigation to a reasonable extent, including expat medical insurance and evacuation insurance provided by IHS. Each team member is expected to be personally self-sufficient within the team and to accept the deployment risks. Each team member will sign a pre-deployment liability waiver holding harmless both IHS and the Roddenberry Foundation. 
  8. The Roddenberry Foundation is supporting the DRT on an at-will basis. They are under no obligation to continue support beyond the current 2015 contract.