Pacific Disaster Net

- SOPAC, UNDP, IFRC, UNOCHA

Overview

The Pacific Disaster Net is the - Virtual Centre of Excellence - for Disaster Risk Management in the Pacific Region. The Web Portal and Database System is designed to be the largest and most comprehensive information resource in relation to Disaster Risk Management for the Pacific Island Countries.

It is a living collection and growing DRM information resource for actors and stakeholders to research and collaborate and improve Information and Knowledge Management.

It also supports National Action Planning, Decision Making and provides in-country information for distribution within the region.

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Rationale

The portal will provide a valuable resource to all Disaster Risk Management partners working in the Pacific region including government agencies, regional bodies, non-government organisations and international agencies. A crucial challenge during its development was multiple access entries with a range of retrieval and display options. Inexperienced and expert users will access their information and documents without difficulty and within a range of formats.

Information from the portal can be viewed, downloaded, sent by email and even exported into other formats. For interactive use there are different levels of access to a variety of issues. A Country page provides filtered, dynamic and fixed data and information with Events, Contacts, Links and Basic facts - available per country, organization etc.

Editions

Pacific Disaster Net is a comprehensive and growing database and is available in four (4) distinct editions via diverse media. The goal of these editions is to enable maximum accessibility of crucial Disaster Risk Management information across the region and by its various stakeholders.

Web Edition 2008		Web Edition 2008 design and implementation of the Pacific Disaster Net system aims to enhance the scope, functionality and visibility of the system that was not planned for in the initial design of the system. The development and content team aims to utilize their experiences, feedback gathered and lessons learned during the development timeframe of the first revision (2007) to further expand upon and generally improve the system. This edition can be accessed at : www.pacificdisaster.net/pdn
Web Edition 2007		Web Edition 2007 is a Rich Internet Application, providing full access to the Pacific Disaster Net database and documents in a highly interactive manner. This edition will be phased out once the newer web edition is feature-complete. This edition can be accessed at : www.pacificdisaster.net/drm
Local Edition		Local Edition of the Pacific Disaster Net runs entirely from DVD media without the requirement of internet connectivity, or any complex installations. Local Editions comprises of all the data and documents present in the Web Editions. For more information, click here.
Mobile Edition		Mobile Edition contains self-hosting essential sub-sets of data from the Pacific Disaster Net system. This edition runs on modern Java-enabled handsets. There are 1.2 billion Java-enabled handsets deployed world-wide, and nearly all handsets available for sale in the region from 2005 onwards is capable of running this edition. Data available are Contacts, Disaster Information by Country Information, Latest Alerts, Events etc. For more information, click here.