Tag Archives: last-mile systems

Colloquium: The future of community-based hazard information systems

Written by Nilusha Kapugama on June 17, 2009 — 3 Comments

Dr. Gordon Gow presented the working paper titled; The future of community-based hazard information systems: Insights from the Internet sharing economy. Dr. Gow who was previously at the LSE is now an Associate Professor at University of Alberta. The presentation began by looking at situations where systems/programmes are developed but only to fall to disuse. The […]

Posted in Colloquia - Live feeds | Also tagged Alberta, Alberta Canada, Andaman and Nicobar island, Associate Professor, California, California United States, community media, community media bridging communities, community-based hazard information systems, cult media, everyday technology, Gordon Gow, Helani Galpaya, Internet sharing economy, Natural Disaster, Peer-to-Peer, Rohan Samarajiva, social media, Sri Lanka, sustainability hazard warning systems, United Nations, University of Alberta, Vietnam

Natasha at UN workshop to link Disaster Management to Space Technology

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on October 18, 2008 — Leave a Comment

From 13-15 October, 2008, The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with support from the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction – Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (UNISDR-PPEW) and the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) organized the Second United Nations […]

Posted in General | Also tagged Bangladesh, Bonn, Early Warning, early warning systems, German Aerospace Center, Germany, Indonesia, Institute for Environment and Human Security, Mile Hazard, Natasha Udu, Natasha Udu-gama, remote sensing, space-based technologies, telemedicine, United Nations, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations University

Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka: Challenges of Implementing CAP

Written by Nuwan Waidyanatha on February 15, 2007 — 5 Comments

There is a growing call for the use of open source content standards for all-hazards, all-media alert and notification systems. Content standards such as Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) and others promise to improve the interoperatiblity of hazard information systems at both the internetworking and last-mile stages of distribution. Despite the […]

Posted in General | Also tagged all-media alert, application software, Canada, community-based hazard information systems, data-broadcast applications, Document Object Model, DOM, end-user technologies, hazard information systems, Information Communication Technologies, information systems, International Development Research Center of Canada, last-mile networking capability, Mile Hazard, notification systems, over legacy data networks, public alerting systems, software interoperability, Sri Lanka, terrestrial network technologies, tsunami, web-services applications, XML-based protocol

Tag Archives: last-mile systems

Natasha at UN workshop to link Disaster Management to Space Technology

Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka: Challenges of Implementing CAP

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