ICT for risk management

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• ICT for risk management
• FP6 Strategic Objective 2.5.12
• ICT for Environment
• Information Society Media DG
• European Commission, Brussels
• Guy Weets
• Deputy Head of Unit

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Evolving disaster reduction paradigm
RISK Hazard Vulnerability

• Comprehensive emergency management
• Focus on response
• Disaster-resistant communities
• Focus on natural hazard prevention
• Resilient communities
•  Living with disasters  and focus on rapid
  recovery
• Covers the whole risk management chain
• Sustainable disaster mitigation
• Focus on processes linking environment,
  development and disaster
• Vulnerability of people, infrastructure,
  environment
• Capacity building

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The risk management cycle

• Awareness and Prevention
• Hazard prediction and modeling
• Risk assessment and mapping
• Systemic risks
• Regional/city Planning
• E-Learning ..

• Preparation
• Monitoring early warning
• Scenarios development
• Emergency Planning maps
• Training

• Alert
• DSS
• Scenario identification
• all media alarm
• Secure dependable telecom

• Recovery
• Lessons learnt
• Scenario update
• Socio-economic and environmental impact
  assessment
• Spatial re-planning

• Immediate response
• Emergency telecommunication
• Command control coordination
• Situational awareness
• Dispatching of resources
• Communication to the citizens

Sustained response Interventions that
restore Functionality of critical systems and
meet social needs.
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General objectives

• To contribute to the deployment of an
  Info-structure for environmental monitoring and
  risk management in Europe
• To promote the development of related
  cost-effective ICT services
• System integration solution driven approach
• Market user needs driven
• Focus on generic solutions
• Re-usable software components
• Open source software
• Interoperability, scalability
• -gtwork on system architecture
• Based on state-of-the-art risk/environment
  science
• Specific technological developments when needed

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The strategic approach

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• To cover the whole risk management cycle.
• Risk assessment, preparedness, early warning,
  alert, response, recovery, lessons learnt etc.
• To cover all environmental hazards, including
  systemic risks / cascading risks
• To focus on system architecture rather than
  specific applications
• To decrease the development and maintenance cost
  whilst improving reliability, scalability and
  interoperability

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The strategic approach (cont)

• To support large scale pilot test with end-users
  as well as training activities
• To foster pre-standardisation activities as an
  integral part of RTD
• To promote open source software as a mean to
  improve the uptake of RTD results
• To contribute to the relevant EU policies and
  actions GEOSS, INSPIRE, GMES,

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Some ICT issues
response

• Situational awareness how to obtain, sustain
  common operating picture in a distributed
  decision environment under conditions of
  uncertainty.
• Information overload how to filter information
  and still get the right information to the right
  people at the right time, how to minimize
  degradation of decision process due to
  information overload.
• Real time decision support how to provide
  robust, and applicable models, ensure data and
  system availability where and when needed.
• Supporting response management operations how
  to coordinate and track activities and resources
  in multiple organizations and operations centers
  during extremely large and complex operations.

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Some ICT Issues
response

• Communicating to community, victims, the media
  how to ensure that warning systems warn, that
  crisis communications communicate
• Communication interoperability and security how
  to provide technology and systems that are open
  enough to connect all necessary parties while
  controlling access
• Utilizing and controlling ad hoc communications
  Cell phones, satellite phone, text messaging,
  internet
• Identifying and tracking people (victims and
  workers) and things. How to facilitate the
  process of identifying the survivors and the
  dead, notifying appropriate authorities, tracking
  victims, tracking and verifying identity of
  workers and things

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Strategy implementation

• Information infrastructure for risk management
• Hazard, vulnerability, risk maps
• Interoperability of geo-spatial data
• Open service architecture
• Web services, metadata registries
• Semantic web, ontologies
• Sensor networks
• Improved emergency management
• Command control coordination
• Full situational awareness
• Emergency maps
• In a multi-lingual/cultural environment

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Strategy implementation( cont)

• 3. Public safety communications
• Early warning systems
• All hazard all media alarm systems
• Rapidly deployable broadband telecom
• Positioning systems
• 4. Regional and city planning
• Reduced vulnerability
• Evacuation
• Etc.

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Major IST Integrated projects

• 1a. Development of an open architecture
  (eINFRASTRUCTURE) for risk management services in
  Europe
• Overcoming heterogeneity and fragmentation
• Cross-system navigation and search
• Workflow management, collaborative working,
  language issues, interface to satellite EO ground
  segment
• Will deliver publicly available specifications
  and open source software
• (ORCHESTRA WIN) www.eu-orchestra.org
  www.win-eu.org

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Major IST Integrated projects

• 1b. Risk monitoring systems, sensor network
  architecture
• 2 new IP in negotiation SANY, OSIRIS
• 2. Emergency management
• Command control system to support response
  rescue operations in large scale emergencies
• Full situational awareness integrating
  positioning with GIS info and emergency
  telecom.OASIS project www.oasis-fp6.org
• 3. Public safety communication
• 2 new IP in negotiation CHORIST, U-2010

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IST SSA

• Actions to support the convergence effort in the
  field of public safety communication. ( public
  safety communication stakeholder forum)
• Project NARTUS

Sucessful call 6 proposals will be required to
liaise with relevant major projects and
participate to workshops on common issues
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• I wish you a successful
• proposal