LEARN: What's an Emergency Dark Site?

Introduction

Welcome to the Public Health Emergency Dark Site Toolkit....you are here because you know that in a crisis, you need a web site built for emergency use.

In a public health emergency, timely and accurate information is essential. Alerts and announcements must be continually updated. Web sites are an excellent way to do this, however:

  • What do you do when your web site is not nimble enough to post rapidly changing information?
  • What’s your plan when your web site goes down in an emergency because of too many “hits”?
  • How do you quickly select and prepare documents for posting to the web site?