Tag Archive for ‘Honolulu’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Honolulu'

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Indian Ocean tsunami warning

on December 23, 2006

Indian Ocean tsunami warning system on slow track:

Tsunami Warning Remains Elusive - Council on Foreign Relations

The wave which swept so many away two years ago (BBC) has faded from memory in many parts of the world, even though as many as two million people remain in temporary shelters in parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. But surely the less onerous task of setting up a skeletal tsunami warning network must be well along, right?Not quite. While enormous sums of aid flowed in for relief and reconstruction efforts, the less glamorous work of positioning seismic warning buoys around the rim of the Indian Ocean lags financially and organizationally. As this new Backgrounder explains, several piecemeal systems are up and running, but the goal of…

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Tags: BBC, Council on Foreign Relations, Honolulu, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, International Tsunami Information Center, Japan, Laura Kong, Maldives, piecemeal systems, skeletal tsunami warning network, Sri Lanka, United States.

Trip Report, Honolulu, January 16-19, 2005

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 31, 2005

The original purpose of the visit was to participate in a super session on Strategies for implementing universal access. The session was well attended and useful.

My presentation was Expanding Access to ICTs (Powerpoint)

Along with Bill Melodys forceful comments it clearly established the importance of market and regulatory reforms, a position that may otherwise have been deemphasized as a result of the Chairs interest in subsidies.

The visit was also used to pursue the disaster warning-communication issues that have come to the fore in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. On the 18th of January I visited the Big Islands Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center and the Pacific Tsunami Museum accompanied by Bill Melody and at the invitation of Dr George Curtis, a tsunami…

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Tags: Asia-Pacific, Big Islands Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center, Bill Melody, Bill Melodys, Ewa Beach, George Curtis, Hawaii, Honolulu, Indian Ocean, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Tsunami Museum, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Peter Anderson, Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean tsunami, tsunami, University of Hawaii.

My talk on disaster warning in Honolulu

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 22, 2005

I was on the closing plenary at the Pacific Telecom Council, with Peter Anderson (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Stuart Weinstein (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Honolulu, USA) and Charlie Kagami (Japan).

Plenary Talk Photo

The topic was “Disaster warning: how can we get it right the next time?”
The talk is What happened in Sri Lanka

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Tags: Canada, Charlie Kagami, Honolulu, Japan, Pacific Telecom Council, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Peter Anderson, Simon Fraser University, Sri Lanka, Stuart Weinstein, United States.

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