Global Missing Children’s Network

Technology is an essential component of our global outreach program. ICMEC uses technology to disseminate photographs of missing children and maintains a searchable database of missing children worldwide. The Global Missing Children’s Network (GMCN) is a network comprised of websites that feed into a central multilingual database featuring information about and photographs of missing children. Participants in the network are given access to a website interface, which allows them to customize their country’s website to meet their individual needs. This enables each country to quickly and easily create posters using the information they enter into the missing-children database. The GMCN has also provided on-site technical training for new countries joining the Global Network; referrals to in-country corporate sponsor, Computer Associates, for website development; and training in forensic imaging (age progression) to local investigators both in-country and in the United States.

To date, 17 countries participate in the GMCN: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cost Rica, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.