Thaiflood separated itself from FROC

Thaiflood separated itself from FROC

The founder of the Thaiflood website, Pramet Minsiri, yesterday announced the separation of the site from the government run Flood Relief Operation Center, citing the conflict in their stances.

The website, an organized effort by the civic sector, had stood side by side with the center since the beginning of the crisis. However, Mr. Pramet claimed that the two entities had developed several conflicts involving information and cooperation to the point that they could no longer work together.

He strongly criticized the center’s works, citing that it needed to be well organized and ignore political influences in order to be able to achieve its ultimate objective of preventing flood or inform the public of it as soon as possible.

The Thaiflood website founder gave an example of such works, saying that the evacuation plan need to have more details, such as evacuation destination, adding that without one, announcing an evacuation would only cause panic.

Mr. Pramet explained that the decision came after he received a call from a government official ‘asking’ him to send the information to the FROC before releasing it to the public. Thailflood refused to comply with the demand as previously the information took too long to reach the public to be useful.
 
BANGKOK, 23 October 2011 (NNT)-Reporter : NUPPOL SUVANSOMBUT
     News Date : 23 October 2011