IOC Capacity Building: TsunamiTeacher

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IOC Capacity Building TsunamiTeacher

• Laura Kong, Director, ITIC
• Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, August 2006

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TsunamiTeacher

• WHAT Consolidated Resource/Training Toolkit
• New, existing materials
• Reliable, verified
• Training modules
• WHY Enable stakeholders to
• Share existing body of
• research / good practice
• Adapt materials locally
• Build awareness
• Develop local responses
• for saving lives,
• mitigating impacts

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TsunamiTeacher

• CONCEPT
• Different audiences use different materials
• Training modules must be locally relevant
• None of the modules use all the resources,
• but different modules can utilize same
  materials
• Specialists review and validate content
• Editors continually
• update, add content

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TsunamiTeacher

• TARGET STAKEHOLDERS
• Media, Education Systems
• Public (govt) / Private Sector
• CONTENT
• School curricula
• Teacher guides, Classroom support materials
• Science, History, Events
• Disaster reduction / Risk management
• Legislative Frameworks
• Warning Systems
• Existing, developing new systems
• Mitigation Preparedness, Alerting, Hazard
  Risk,
• Environmental/engineering, businesses, outreach

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TsunamiTeacher
APPLICATION Briefings, Train-the-Trainer
(Public/Private - NMHS, NDMO, UN, NGO, etc)
WHEN Aug 2006 3 modules IOTWS-III
Pre-Live 1 / participant pls End of
2006 Dynamic Content-based Web-customizeable Tra
nslations Indonesia, Bangladesh, French,
Pakistan, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
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Thank You

• For more information, contact
• ITIC, Dr. Laura Kong l.kong_at_unesco.org
• Brian Yanagi brian.yanagi_at_noaa.gov
• Tsunami Unit, Paris, Dr. Ulrich Wolf
  u.wolf_at_unesco.org
• TsunamiTeacher tsunamiteacher_at_unesco.org

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Available Info Services

• OPERATIONS
• Heads-up SMS Alerts (PTWC) - RANET
• But, Official messages through GTS
• Real-time Sea Level - GTS data feed
• Time Series Decode/Manipulation
• TideTool (v3.31) (PTWC) (auto display)
• ODINAFRICA Sea Level Monitor (web)
• Real-time EQ display (USGS data feed)
• NEIC broadcast, GIS capable
• Contact ITIC, l.kong_at_unesco.org

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ITIC Information Services

• EVENT
• ITIC Tsunami Bulletin Board
• Events, models, PTWC/JMA msgs
• Immediate (scientists, professionals)
• Compilation 26 Dec 2004
• Post-Tsunami Survey Data
• Electronic - CD (EERI)
• Hard copy (EERI - UNESCO co-publ)
• Tsunami Data Repository / Archive
• (web, user-friendly) - prototype now

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Other Information Services

• EDUCATION / AWARENESS
• TsunamiTeacher
• July - Pre-live (no docs), ICG/IOTWS-III
• August - web, DVD
• Tsunami Glossary
• Tsunami flyer/poster
• Tsunami, Great Waves, 2006 (electronic)
• Customizeable formats
• Educational Curriculum (ADRC)
• Thailand Grades 4-6