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Information Management
The collection, processing, organization and dissemination of information to support knowledge sharing for disaster risk reduction, including the development common terminology.
Barbados: Get involved!
1 Feb 2012, Barbados Advocate
'Everyone has a role to play in reducing disaster risk,' says Ian King, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Manager with UNDP in Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, outlining the commitment, resources and information needed at all levels..
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 2.2 [PDF, 109Kb]Systems are in place to monitor, archive and disseminate data on key hazards and vulnerabilities
- Indicator 3.1 [PDF, 105Kb]Relevant information on disasters is available and accessible at all levels, to all stakeholders (through networks, development of information sharing systems etc)
- Indicator 5.4 [PDF, 88Kb]Procedures are in place to exchange relevant information during hazard events and disasters, and to undertake post-event reviews
- Expert group meeting on geo-reference disaster risk management information system in Asia-Pacific region15-17 Feb 2012, Thailand (Bangkok)
- Training course in disaster risk reduction and sustainable local development 201230 Mar - 14 Dec 2012, Italy (Turin)
- 2012 EERI annual meeting & national earthquake conference10-13 Apr 2012, United States of America (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Disaster management & humanitarian assistance certificateUH Mānoa, United States of America (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi)
- National incident management systems certificate online courseINTER-CEPT
- Crisis, Emergency and Risk ManagementGeorge Washington University, Several locations, USA.
Cultivating a state of readiness: our response to April 27, 20112012, TRAC, United States of America - gov
Guía rol de los centros de información en la respuesta a emergencias y desastres2011, PAHO; CRID
- BBC World Debate: ‘Prevent or React’2009, BBC
- UNISDR YouTube channel2007, UNISDR
- ProVention Consortium YouTube channelProVention Consortium
- Information systems assistant, G-4Switzerland (Geneva), UNISDR
- ProgrammerThailand (Pathumthani), RIMES
- Consultant (PHP web programmer)UNISDR
External Online Resources
- Biblioteca virtual andina para la prevención y atención de desastres (BiVa-PaD)
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- Caribbean Risk Management Initiative
- CRID: El Centro Regional de Información sobre Desastres (in Spanish)
- CRID: Regional Disaster Information Centre Latin America and the Caribbean (in English)
- Desinventar: Inventory system of the effects of disasters
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Earth Knowledge Portal
- France: Portail DICRIM - Document d'Information Communal sur les RIsques Majeurs (in French)
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- iDisaster 2.0: social media and emergency management
- IRI: Climate Predictability Tool (CPT)
- NICCD blog: Notes on ICTs, climate change and development
- ProCivibus: A crowdsourcing system for collaborative emergency planning
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- Swedish Natural Hazards Information System
- SWIdget
- Weatherathome
- WMO: severe weather information centre: gale
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