Tag Archive for ‘Wireless ICTs’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Wireless ICTs'

Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?
Deadline: 05 December 2008.

HazInfo Canadian Researcher speaks at the 1st WRECOM Conference in Rome

on October 5, 2007

Gordon Gow, a lead researcher in the Last-Mile Hazard Warning System (LM-HWS) Pilot (HazInfo project), presented the paper titled – “Community-based Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka: Performance of Alerting and Notification in a Last-Mile Message Relay” at the 1^st Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications (WRECOM) Conference in Rome, Italy, Oct 01-02.

One of Gordon Gow’s key contributions to the HazInfo project was the Common Alerting Protocol Profile for Sri Lanka, which was a hard case as far as integrating the multi-language scenario as it is the case in Sri Lanka. The CAP Profile for Sri Lanka was designed for disseminations in Sinhala, Tamil, and English languages. Such a complex profile of CAP was field tested in Sri Lanka’s HazInfo project. This was the first time a Multilanguage…

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Tags: Alberta, Community, European Union, Faculty of Extension, Gordon Gow, Graduate Program, Italy, Mile Message Relay, Rome, Sri Lanka, st Wireless Rural, University of Alberta, voice and data systems, Wireless ICTs.

HazInfo Paper Accepted for the 1st WRECOM Conference in Rome, Italy

Nuwan Waidyanatha

on July 30, 2007

Paper titled “Community-based Hazard Warnings in Rural Sri Lanka: Performance of a Last-Mile Message Relay”, authors – Gordon Gow (Associate Professor, Faculty of Extensions, University of Alberta, Canada), Peter Anderson (Associate Professor, Department of Telematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada), and Nuwan Waidyanatha (Project Manager, Last-Mile Hazard Warning Systems, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka), will be presented at the 1^st Wireless Rural Emergency Communication Conference. The WRECOM 2007 Conference is jointly organized by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, the IEEE Communications Society and the Vehicular Technology/Communications Society joint Chapter Italy Section. The conference will take place in Rome, October 1-2, 2007.

The HazInfo project realized that early warnings via Information Communication Technology (ICT) must be a point-to-multi-point application and is best accommodate by Wireless ICTs. The HazInfo pilot included outfitting…

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Tags: Alberta, Canada, Community, Faculty of Extensions, Gordon Gow, IEEE Communications Society, International Development Research Center, Mile Hazard, Mile Message Relay, Peter Anderson, Rome, Simon Fraser University, Sri Lanka, st Wireless, University of Alberta, University of Rome, wireless communication equipment, Wireless ICTs.

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