Tag Archives: the Indian Ocean tsunami
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LIRNEasia researcher contributes to two regional publications
Two publications, with chapters by LIRNEasia researcher Chanuka Wattegama, were launched during the GK3, third global Knowledge conferences held in Kuala Lumpur in December, 2007.
The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Asia Pacific. The third edition (2007/2008) covers 31 [...]
On disaster risk reduction, with an emphasis on cities
Cities and natural disasters | Some hard talk about towns | Economist.com
Intelligent planning and regulation make a huge difference to the number of people who die when disaster strikes, says Anna Tibaijuka, UN-Habitat’s executive director. In 1995 an earthquake in the Japanese city of Kobe killed 6,400 people; in 1999 a quake of [...]
First Phase of HazInfo Project Completed
The first phase of the Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination (HazInfo) project funded by IDRC, was completed recently with the training of trainer component. LIRNEasia is implementing this project along with its project partners Sarvodaya, the largest community organization in Sri Lanka and TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP), a non-profit media organization working in the Asian region.
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Trip Report, Honolulu, January 16-19, 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 [...]
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