NY Based Software Company (CA) Donates $600K to NCMEC
CA Donates $600K to NCMEC ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NYSE:CA) donated more than $600,000 in software and services to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through its CA Together IT Program in 2005. For a decade, NCMEC has relied on CA's support to help find missing children and to provide law enforcement with access to information that is vital to capturing child predators. Last year's donation went towards maintaining NCMEC's operations and managing disparate systems to ensure NCMEC's 24-hour resources were consistently accessible by families and law enforcement personnel. CA's relationship with NCMEC began in the mid-1990s when NCMEC was just beginning to use technology to strengthen its operations. Over the years, CA has donated countless hours and millions of dollars of in-kind software, services, and training to help NCMEC develop an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure that not only supports, but also drives, their expanding efforts. NCMEC designed a program to unify disparate information sources and CA provided a secure database management solution to house it. NCMEC's CyberTipline analysts utilize this technology to better tackle child exploitation issues and help law enforcement agencies identify victims and track down their predators. "Time is of the essence in the search for a missing child," said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC. "The sooner information is available to a wide group, the better the chance of quickly finding an endangered child. CA's support and technology have helped NCMEC dramatically increase its recovery rate from 62 percent in 1990 to more than 96 percent today." http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=90350