The APAN community created to support organizations responding to the Ebola outbreak in western Africa, the Ebola Response Network community, is open to the public and can be found here: https://community.apan.org/apcn/ern/default.aspx
This community is administered by the US Africa Command, and anyone worldwide is invited to participate. The community offers maps, file sharing space, translation services, live online chat (including live translation for group chat rooms or private chat), and live news feeds from organizations like the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Relief Web, and more.
To participate, create an APAN account by clicking here and follow the instructions.
Next, visit the Ebola Response Network community on APAN by clicking here, and click “Join Group” as shown below to participate. No approval is necessary.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR) teams worldwide have benefited from sharing information and collaborating online in APAN communities since January 2010 when earthquakes in Haiti inspired an international and inter-agency response effort that used APAN. To see the many varieties of HA/DR communities built on APAN over the past 5 years, see our Case Studies page here: https://www.apan.org/pages/case-studies.
For assistance with this or any other APAN community, please visit the APAN Support page, submit a Support Ticket via web form, or call the APAN Help Desk directly at (808) 472-7841.