The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is scrambling to assuage donors and international partners who contributed more than $1.4 billion to the SupportJamaica.gov.jm website that the platform is owned by the Government and not Amber, a private company which developed the platform.

As public concerns mount over the privacy of donor information, the Government is also rushing to explain that the agreement between Amber and ODPEM provided that the associated government-controlled data would be migrated from Amber’s hosting environment to a government-designated environment. Amber’s hosting role was always intended to be temporary and technical, the agency added.

“ODPEM acknowledges that it did not complete the migration as agreed and accepts responsibility for the delay,” the agency said in a press release yesterday.