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LIRNEasia holds final HazInfo Workshop in Jakarta
Yesterday, 5 March 2008, LIRNEasia, with its Indonesian partner, the Indonesian Institute for Disaster Preparedness (IIDP), held the final HazInfo workshop at the Hotel Borobudur in Jakarta, Indonesia. The “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-based Last-Mile Warning Systems” workshop included several highlights such as a testimonial from an Aceh survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean [...]
Indonesia disaster preparedness a work in progress
Indonesia has learnt lessons from dealing with a string of earthquakes, but still can do more to reduce the impact of such disasters by quake proofing buildings and deploying more tsunami buoys, officials said on Wednesday.
An official at Indonesia’s National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management said there had been progress in educating people since the [...]
Mobiles for humanitarian action?
Our friend and colleague from TVEAP, Nalaka Gunawardene, writes from Geneva:
Message to aid workers: Go mobile — or get lost! « Moving Images, Moving People!
It might be that aid workers are all frustrated computer geeks…because all their talk was about collaborative and networking software, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the use of really high [...]
Indonesians die again without official warning
What will it take?
2004 December 26th
2005 March 28th
2006 July 17th
Three tsunamis within less than two years; and the clueless Indonesian government can’t still get its act together.
And faraway India is supposed to have issued a warning when there was no chance of a tsunami hitting India. CYA bureaucrat, I guess. A different error.
Sri [...]
Indonesia tsunami system ‘not ready’
By Laura Smith-Spark
BBC News
Eighteen months after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, hundreds have died after a giant wave struck the Indonesian island of Java.
Their deaths have raised questions about the failure of a promised Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system to sound an adequate alert.
More than 300 people died and about 140 were reported missing [...]
All links must work in disaster warning
The following article emphasizes the importance of the last mile and also demonstrates the value of the research we will be undertaking in 2006 on assessing the suitability of various technology solutions.
Tsunami warning system a work in progress
By JOSEPH COLEMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Yuliana, 25, watches her 9 month-old baby, Nurul Husna, as they [...]
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