In 2007 Neighbourhood Support New Zealand and Readynet established a partnership to provide a nationwide membership and communications system for Neighbourhood Support groups. This service is provided free by Readynet and supported by Local Government On line – the Local Government owned IT support and internet portal to Councils throughout New Zealand.

The benefits to Neighbourhood support Groups using Readynet are –

  1. National consistency of membership and emergency data – i.e. using the same system and assembling the same types of information in a consistent format.
  2. Data is entered online (by the Group contact person) through the Readynet secure website and safely stored using the latest technology to ensure your details are secure.
  3. Data is shared with the Emergency Services and with the Emergency Operations Centre (Civil Defence HQ) of participating Councils.
  4. Using Readynet means that you can’t ‘lose’ your Group’s details due to hardware failure (computer crashes!), discs or paper records being lost, stolen or damaged. It also makes maintaining, updating or handover very easy. 

As well as assembling and storing your Group’s membership details, important emergency information can be entered so that the details of your nearest Civil Defence post, Police, Fire station, etc can be easily available in an emergency. All of the stored emergency information can be printed out as a complete document for off-line use – e.g. during an emergency event where electricity may not be available.

Readynet shares information with Emergency Services and a growing number of Council Emergency Operations Centres (Civil Defence HQ). This means that when the Emergency Services and / or Civil Defence are responding or planning a response to an emergency event they have information about the ‘Who and Where’ of your Group.

To protect the data about each Neighbourhood Support group, access to the Readynet Network is protected by username and password combination– just like internet banking.

Readynet information is only ever used for emergency management purposes.
The information is available to Neighbourhood Support for Administration and Communication purposes – and to the Emergency Services and Civil Defence for emergency use only. No exceptions!

Alerts: Readynet can be used to alert members about emergency events by text messaging and email. Alerts are usually generated through participating Councils Emergency Operations Centres. 

Readynet is available to Neighbourhood Support Groups within the following Councils:

 


 

 

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