Information management and technology

The Nexus for ICTs, Climate Change and Development (NICCD) project blog posts that Reuters recently identified '10 climate change adaptation technologies that will become crucial to cope and adapt to the effects of the changing climate over the next century', highlighting some that address flood, weather forecasting, and resilient crops...

This document responds to the need to explore further the links between information and communication technologies (ICTs), climate change and development, as these fields become increasingly interlocked due to the magnifying effect of climate change on

The city government and IBM signed an agreement to build a public information management center for Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Operations Center will integrate and interconnect information from multiple government departments and public agencies in the municipality to improve city safety and responsiveness to various types of incidents, such as flash floods and landslides...

El intendente Mario Barletta encabezó la presentación del sistema de comunicación por radio, a través del cual, todas las dependencias Municipales estarán interconectadas. En tanto, Barletta aclaró que 'nos hay que pensar a este sistema sólo en la lógica de la emergencia; sino también en la tarea diaria. En la necesidad de prevención, en aspectos organizativos, o para ordenar el tránsito'. Asimismo, cabe destacar lo significativamente económico que resulta este sistema, en comparación, por ejemplo, con la telefonía celular...

New technologies such as social media and mobile interactive applications are starting to have an impact in the field of emergency management. The impact is not occurring in just the response phase, as has been widely reported, but also during the preparedness, mitigation and even the recovery phase as well. Kim Stephens proposes a few recent examples...

Even though awareness programmes have been conducted with populations around high-risk volcanoes, alerting 40,000 people exposed to risk from 16 active volcanoes across Papua New Guinea remains a challenge...

Brazil will have one of the fastest computers in the world to help improve climate studies in the country. The supercomputer is being assembled at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in São José dos Campos, one of leading climate study centers in Latin America...

The Climate Change Mobile Library in Nepal begins its its three-week journey from Kathmandu today. It aims to educate and raise awareness of climate change issues on wheels by taking materials to community-based groups, students and local officials from the Western to Eastern part of Nepal...