Tag Archive for ‘community-based last-mile warning systems’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'community-based last-mile warning systems'

LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.

Second HazInfo Dissemination Workshop held in India

Natasha Udu-Gama

on November 25, 2007

On Monday, November 19th, Rohan Samarajiva, Nuwan Waidyanatha, and Natasha Udu-gama of LIRNEasia, along with Menake Wijesinghe of Sarvodaya’s Community Disaster Management Centre went to New Delhi, India for the second in a series of workshops on the “Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination” (HazInfo) entitled “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-Based Last-Mile Warning Systems” at the India Habitat Centre in conjunction with the All India Disaster Management Centre (AIDMI).

The workshop included a variety of stakeholders from Indian government, civil society, international organizations, private sector, and NGOs. Mr. Mihir Bhatt, Honorary Director of AIDMI, along with Mr. Mehul Pandya, Risk Reduction Transfer Initiative Coordinator and Ms. Vandana Chauhan, Urban Risk Reduction Coordinator were in attendance from AIDMI’s Ahmedabad, Gujarat headquarters.

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Tags: AIDMI, All India Disaster Management Centre, Community, community-based last-mile warning systems, Gujarat, Gujarat headquarters, Honorary, India, India Habitat Centre, Indian government, Mehul Pandya, Methodology, Mihir Bhatt, Mile Hazard, Natasha Udu-gama, New Delhi, Nuwan Waidyanatha, Preparedness, Rohan Samarajiva, Sarvodaya \'s Community Disaster Management Centre, Suresh Mariaselvam, Training & Community Organization, Vandana Chauhan, Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya.

Dhaka HazInfo Dissemination Workshop | October 25, 2007 at BUET

Natasha Udu-Gama

on October 29, 2007

On October 25, 2007, LIRNEasia’s Rohan Samarajiva, Nuwan Waidyanatha and Natasha Udu-gama traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to present findings from the “Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination” (HazInfo) pilot project in the first international dissemination workshop for HazInfo entitled “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-Based Last-Mile Warning Systems” at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) through its Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety (BNUS) directed by Dr. Mehedi Ahmed Ansary. The report summarizes the workshop and its sessions. Overall, the workshop was a success in familiarizing the Bangladeshi audience with the HazInfo pilot project and meeting the objectives.

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Tags: Aftab Alam Khan, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Community, Community Organization, community-based last-mile warning systems, DHAKA, Maryland, Mehedi Ahmed Ansary, Methodology, Mile Hazard, Nasir Ullah, Natasha Udu-gama, Nuwan Waidyanatha, Preparedness, Rohan Samarajiva, simulation, Training and Community Organization.

Coverage for the Last Mile project

Rohan Samarajiva

on May 18, 2007

Serving Sri Lanka: Indian Ocean tsunami warning capabilities improving

Addressable satellite radio sets were found to be the best alerting technology of the community disaster warning pilot project conducted by LIRNEasia and Sarvodaya. Java enabled mobile phones which has a wake up siren came next. The GSM based remote alarm device developed locally by Dialog Telekom, MicroImage and University of Moratuwa followed closely. It has both light and siren.Findings of this project on learning how information-communication technologies and community based training can help in tsunami and other disaster situations had been discussed by community leaders and international experts at a workshop on “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning with a Focus on Community-Based Last-Mile Warning Systems” at the Sarvodaya Headquarters in Moratuwa recently. Difficulties had been experienced…

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Tags: CDMA, community-based last-mile warning systems, Dialog Telekom, electronic equipment, GSM, Indian Ocean, Information Communication Technologies, Institute for Construction Training and Development, Java, MicroImage, mobile phones, proto-type technology, remote alarm device, Rohan Samarajiva, Sarvodaya headquarters, satellite radio sets, telecom networks, University of Moratuwa, VSAT.

LIRNEasia-Sarvodaya disaster warning forum

Rohan Samarajiva

on March 18, 2007

LIRNEasia in partnership with Sarvodaya, is organizing the concluding events of “Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination Research Project” in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka on 28-29 March 2007. This “Last-Mile” project reflects Sarvodaya and LIRNEasia’s shared objective of evaluating the suitability of information communication technology (ICT) in the last mile of a national disaster warning system for Sri Lanka and possible extension to other developing countries. A major part of the concluding events is the forum entitled, “Sharing knowledge on disaster warning, with a focus on community-based last-mile warning systems”, which will be held on 28-29 March 2007 at the Sarvodaya Damsak Mandiraya (Sarvodaya Main Campus) in Moratuwa. The conference intends to bring together knowledge from the South Asia Region to Sarvodaya for a forum on practical…

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Tags: community-based last-mile warning systems, information communication technology, Main Campus, Mile Hazard, Moratuwa, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka.

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