We found active members from USA, UK, and the Middle East too. When contacted by ThePrint, Chandran replied via email (reproduced here with minor edits for clarity): “I just started 14 groups for each district and through that, we collected data of victims and volunteers. Chandran, who was one of the first people to comment on Nair’s original post. The group was created by a Facebook user named Richin R.
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It has now spun off to include 14 WhatsApp groups – one each for every district in the state – plus an app on the Google Play Store, and many other Facebook pages. At the time of publishing this story, the group already had over 600 members, and had made over 500 posts with information on victims and missing persons. It was started by IT professionals to gather information of those stranded and in need of rescue. Within minutes, a Facebook group called ‘ Flood Technology Support Kerala 2018’ sprang up. Nair, now deputy secretary in the union ministry of new and renewable energy, wrote a Facebook post on 16 August, imploring the participation of volunteers in rescue and relief operations. Now, a few years later, at a time when Kerala is battling the worst natural calamity it has faced in living memory, Nair has inspired a volunteers’ movement to help the hundreds of thousands in need.
New Delhi: First, as the district collector of Kozhikode, IAS officer Prasanth Nair won the hearts of his home state, earning the moniker ‘Collector Bro’ for his citizen-friendly and participative approach in governance. IAS officer Prasanth Nair is the inspiration behind an international effort to collate genuine distress calls and route them to the relevant officials.