ReallyReady.org is devoted to providing comprehensive and correct
emergency preparedness information for families, businesses, and
individuals with disabilities.In February of 2003 the United States Department of Homeland Security
released Ready.gov, an emergency preparedness web resource for Americans,
as a cornerstone of its multi-million dollar Ready Campaign. As of March 2006,
Ready.gov has received more than 23 million unique visitors.
Unfortunately, Ready.gov contains information that is both inaccurate
and incomplete. The Department of Homeland Security has been alerted
both publicly and privately of this problem. However, the modifications
that have been made to the site over the past three years, including an
update in July 2006, have not adequately addressed the errors.A thorough analysis of Ready.gov by the Federation of American Scientists
reveals that numerous shortcomings remain. We therefore developed
ReallyReady.org, a emergency preparedness web resource with comprehensive
and correct information.The Federation of American Scientists hopes to achieve two purposes with
ReallyReady.org:
- To provide clear and correct information to citizens interested in
preparing themselves and their families for an emergency- To persuade the Department of Homeland Security to take a serious look at
Ready.gov and their policy on the accuracy of information and to make
important changes that will help Americans to prepare for terrorist
attacks or natural disasters.We recommend that the Department of Homeland Security request the
assistance of scientific, military, and emergency response experts to
make crucial alterations to Ready.gov. Until FAS deems Ready.gov
acceptable, we will ensure that the information on ReallyReady.org will
remain updated, useful, and correct. We hope this site will
demonstrate to the Department of Homeland Security that their
multi-million dollar site can be useful and we hope they will update
their site as quickly as possible.
