Information management and technology

This document reports on the fifth session meeting held in Greece in 2008, which reviewed the progress made during the ICG/NEAMTWS intersessional period and the activities of the four Working Groups on (i) hazard assessment, risk and modelling; (ii)

Dharmenda Singh reports that a legal framework drafted by the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry will soon make all geographical data, such as natural hazard sites and land use, available on-line in a comprehensive database, according to Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas...

This document discusses the ways in which ICT has positively impacted the various phases of disaster management. Noting the use of ICT during and in the immediate aftermath of disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and most recently the Haiti Earthquake

A recent workshop held by the department of Humanitarian and Social Affairs of ECOWAS aimed at building the capacity of West African countries to disasters by the integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development agendas and sectoral programmes in the sub-region...

ICTD case study, issue 2:

This book discusses the ways in which information and communication technology (ICT) has positively impacted the various phases of disaster management. It aims to present a useful resource for compiling and disseminating best

This paper presents the outcomes of a meeting convened to communicate about the major risk of disaster for the neighbouring villages and the inhabitants downstream following the land-slide hitting the Hunza River in January 2010. It analyses the situation

Help for people facing humanitarian catastrophe could be a text message or mouse click away, thanks to software that has proved vital in humanitarian disasters such as the Haiti earthquake...

A comparative case study between Wuhan, China, and Cologne, Germany - Graduate research series, vol. 1:

This document provides an in-depth analysis of the interplay of risk perception, communication and culture using comparative case study on flood risk