SouthEast Asia Disaster Training

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South-East Asia Disaster Training Prevention
Centre project Through ICT network
With ? The Law Enforcement Investigator
Organisation of Thailand ? The Office of Higher
Education Commission, Ministry of Education
(Thailand) ? The Department of Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation, Interior Ministry
(Thailand) ? The Meteorological Department of
Thailand ? The Direction of Pollutions and Risks
Prevention (French Ministry of Ecology and
Sustainable Development) ? The Disaster Control
Research Center (Japan) ? The ENSA-PVS - National
Superior Faculty of Architecture of Paris Val de
Seine (France) ? The Department of Structural
Geotechnical Engineering - University of Genova
(Italy) ? The University of Thessaloniki
(Greece) ? The Technical University of Berlin -
Technische Universität Berlin (Germany) ? The
EVCAU research laboratory - Espace Virtuel pour
la Conception Architecturale et Urbaine
(France) ? The Pôle Sciences de la Ville, Paris
VII University (France) ? The Emergency
Architects organisation (France) ? The World
Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake
Risk Reduction - WAPMERR (Switzerland) ? The
International Hydrographic Bureau - IHB
(Monaco) ? The ICT Ministry of Thailand ? The
National Science and Technology Development
Agency of Thailand ? The Risk Control Development
Center - Mapua Institute of Technology
(Philippines) ? The France Telecom company ? The
British Telecom company ? The Philips company ?
The KTV Thai Community TV Network ? The SAMART
Telecom Company ? The UNESCO (Paris, Bangkok, New
Delhi, Jakarta, Dhaka, Kathmandu and
Hanoi) And ? The European Commission
Last update January 2007
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The four aims of the South-East Asia DTP Centre
project
The South-East Asia DTP Centre Project, through
Satellite Multicast, ICT Hotel Network, KTV cable
television, radio and Internet, introduced by a
24 European and Asian public and private partners
and 21 universities consortium, has four
different aims. The first one intends to provide
South-East Asia with an efficient training system
concerning right behaviours in case of disaster
impact in order to educate the largest amount of
the population (children, adults, students,
professionals, craftsmen, shop tenants, civil
servants, hotel staff and tourists) and avoid
wrong thoughts, dangerous reactions, negligence,
disorder, injury worsening or panic. The second
one is to improve professionals knowledge
concerning major risks mitigation, as architects,
engineers, craftsmen, civil servants, hotel
staff, university professors, school teachers and
others, by proposing to each trade some
additional specialized training courses. The
third one is to provide to the region a great
communication network, without which any major
risks prevention and training programme would be
vain, by using for part its own existing
structures to reduce cost and hard working, and
avoid the constraining necessity of constant
foreign assistance by making it capable of self
management and maintenance over the entire
system. The fourth aim is to offer Europe and
Asia the ability of getting most benefits from
all research activities, public and private
co-operation programmes and applications, brought
by the project. Furthermore, it already assumes
the aim of developing itself in a near future
(opening of a Mediterranean DTP Centre and a
Caribbean one in the years to come, etc.)
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South-East Asia DTP Centre structure
South-East Asia national authorities
SEA-DTP Centre Organisational diagram
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ICT relevance of the project (1)
Concerning the educational purpose for
professionals through adapted specialised
training workshops in regional centres, the main
technology on which this project is base is the
use of a multicast satellite broadcasting over an
existing regional network in order to spread
information and stock it in digital libraries to
use it for educational and training purposes
among the widest range of the targeted population.
The difficulty was to find the best communication
system at the lowest cost, by searching for
already existing networks able to be used for the
purpose we were interested in. On the other hand
we had to find structures able to offer
population gathering possibilities and facilitate
the training program all over the region.
Therefore we will mostly use ICT hotels
facilities. Indeed, in most South-East Asias
countries ICT Hotels can be found (or set up)
nearly everywhere, they are mostly already
proposing existing internal communication
networks, and furthermore they are often
providing people with safe shields against most
hazards and great gathering capacities in case of
needs such as conference halls, VIP rooms and
business facilities. And in case we would really
not be able to find such structure or we would
like to deliver content to schools and
communities in rural areas, as it has already
been made through several trials in Vietnam,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand, ICT
Villages can be set up. The advantages of such
system are numerous. Satellite communications
systems are reliable and provide ubiquitous
communications over wide areas. With low cost
ground equipment, the project could be easily
extended to all surrounding countries while
locally keeping a full control of its use
depending on each covered areas demand.
Satellite receiver
ICT Villages
Web server
ICT Hotels
video server
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ICT relevance of the project (2)
Regarding to the training and information of the
population through radio, visual contents and
vulgarized television programmes, with the
collaboration of Power Peak Ltd and other
specialised partners, we are able to broadcast
information, alert messages and educational
programmes, related to hazards threats, using KTV
Community TV Network and radio. The advantage of
such ability is not only to broadcast all over
Thailand, but that this network is also
broadcasting over 22 countries. We, off course,
are not planning to spread that much our
contents, but at least several Thailand
surrounding countries (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Philippines and
Singapore) could receive localised information
and programmes, as it has been already planned
with most local authorities and partners. At
last, universities will get the necessary
contents, by receiving adapted interactive
pedagogic material through the Internet and by
getting benefit from a full and transparent
collaboration with the South-East Asia DTP
Centres scientific and educational
structures. Such interactive pedagogic material,
as the content provided by Internet (once more
through ICT technology), is adapted to each major
depending on the university department it is sent
to (architecture, civil engineering, economical,
social, meteorological or geological sciences,
urban planning, etc.). And once more, this last
media, offers the ability of a wide extension of
the training coverage over all other interested
countries (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and abroad), by
creating localised versions of these Internet
sites.
Educational material
TV training programs
University networks - internet
Interactive platforms
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Multidisciplinary Researches Applications

• Academic researches and applications fields
• Architecture
• Civil Engineering
• Material science
• Geology
• Computer science
• Sociology
• Linguistics
• Pedagogy
• ICT related researches and applications topics
• Analysis of professionals, teachers, students,
  craftsmen, civil servants, hotel staff, tourists,
  shop tenants, adults and children needs.
• Development of a training system for the teaching
  of international collaborative work between
  professionals (building, tourism), research
  institutes, universities and local authorities.
• Development of validation protocols to evaluate
  training and professional practices.
• Localisations and tests of the platforms
  prototypes among selected population samples.
• International network set up.

constant upgrade (contents, platforms,
technologies)
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Articles of university dedication to the SEA DTP
Centre project

• The articles of university dedication to the
  South-Eat Asia DTP Centre project would be mainly
  
• Improvement of educational programmes regarding
  to major risks mitigation
• Eventual training of educational staff when
  needed
• Education of students as specialists in disaster
  mitigation
• Construction of a database on disasters and
  hazards in South-East Asia
• Education and training material development
• Translation and modification of the education and
  training material
• Students, researchers and/or professors exchange
  programmes development between Europe, South-East
  Asia and Japan's partners
• Pedagogic and/or research collaborative framework
  programmes developments between partners
• Collaborative workshops development on major
  risks mitigation matters

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Why satellite Multicast?
TV centricVSComputer centric leaning
Ubiquitous coverage Broadcast capability -
multiple sites from a single transmission Huge
cost savings Rapid deployment Remote rural
areas receive - Broadband Content Scalable
- low and high speed data - asymmetric
channels

• The system provides a complete solution that
  delivers to both TV and Computer based learning.
• Greater Flexibility in content use and user
  interface
• Not all members can use a PC
• - use the TV to reach the entire population.