Tag Archives: HazInfo
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Mobile Phones and Sharing Economies for sustaining last-mile early warning systems presented at Rutgers University
In developing countries such as Sri Lanka, when government has no resources to deliver the essential public good of early warnings, alternate methods must be advocated – that was the idea of the HazInfo research project, where civil society in villages were given training to respond appropriately to alerts received from the Hazard Information Hub [...]
LIRNEasia at ITU Asia-Pacific Workshop on Use of ICTs in Response to Disasters
LIRNEasia’s Nuwan Waidyanatha will be making a presentation on ‘Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)’ at the ‘ITU Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence Training/Workshop on Effective Use of Telecommunications/ICTs in Response to Disasters: Saving Lives, to be held on 24-28 November, 2008, in Kedah, Malaysia.
The Training Workshop will focus on concepts and hands-on training on various technologies and
applications that [...]
The Interview with Rohan Samarajiva
This episode of The Interview features an interview with Executive Director, Rohan Samarajiva on telecom regulations, disaster mitigation, preparedness and early warning, mobile phone usage at the BOP and a number of other technology related issues.
The Interview – Rohan Samarajiva from CPA on Vimeo.
World Bank in action: Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
“We must realize the fact that disasters threaten sustained economic growth of the society and the country.”
These were the words of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani addressing the opening ceremony of the first National Disaster Risk Management Conference. The function, reported Associated Press of Pakistan, was organized to mark the Disaster Awareness Day observed [...]
LIRNEasia to present at live webcast on Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
LIRNEasia’s Chanuka Wattegama will make the main presentation at a live webcast of a workshop on Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age, to be held from 8 – 9 October, 2008, 9 - 12 p.m. (ET), accessible at the following link: http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live
Co-organizers of the event include the World Bank’s Global Information Communication and Technology Department, infoDev and the Global [...]
LIRNEasia at 2nd UN-SPIDER workshop, 13 – 15 October, Bonn, Germany
Natasha Udu-gama has been invited to represent LIRNEasia at the Second International United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) Bonn Workshop: “Disaster Management and Space Technology – Bridging the Gap” in Bonn, Germany, from the 13th to 15th October 2008.
Natasha will make a presentation on, ‘Last Mile Hazard Information [...]
LIRNEasia at ISCRAM-CHINA 2007
Nuwan Waidyanatha, project manager of the HazInfo program, has been invited to present a paper at the Second China Workshop on Information System of Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM-CHINA 2007) to be held on August 26-27, 2007 in Harbin, China. The paper entitled “‘Common Alerting Protocol Message Broker’ for Last-Mile Hazard Warning System in [...]
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