Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
IM for DRM in the Pacific Region
www.pacificdisaster.net
Pacific Disaster Net
and other tools
Lessons learned
and recommendations
Workshop Bangkok
5 – 6 November 2009
Jutta May
SOPAC
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
www.pacificdisaster.net
•Hosts up-to-date and live information - in a range of formats and from different sources
•Relating to Governance, Risk Assessment, Early Warning and Monitoring, Disaster
Risk Management, Training and Tools
•Available online and offline (Local Edition) on DVDs - allowing a much wider outreach
even into communities without Internet access
•Developed by SOPAC, IFRC, UNDP-PC and OCHA as initiative under the PDRMPN
Portal for DRM
in the Pacific Region,
launched September 2008
•Alerts
•Documents
•Events
•Contacts
•Calendar
•Media
•Country Page
•Forum
•Wiki
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Development
New Functionalities
•
Google maps / earth integration (different displays & zoom functionalities)
•
CAP integration (Common Alert Protocol) with zoom & links
•
User can add documents, add / edit contact information
•
Wiki with About PDN, Help (Animation started), Development, ...
•
Weekly updates about new documents since 08/2009
•
Usability (Navigation, Search History, Calendar sort order ...)
•
Search improved (updated soon)
Presentations
•
12/2008 GIS/RS Pacific Suva
•
02/2009 Pacific ICT Ministerial Forum Tonga
•
05/2009 Pacific Platform Nadi (4 hours hands on exercise with NDMOs)
•
06/2009 Global Platform – Marketplace Switzerland
•
07/2009 Pacific Youth Festival Suva (1 hour exercise)
•
08/2009 IFRC DM Forum and IDRL Workshop Suva
•
09/2009 Information and Communication Management Workshop SPC / CTA Nadi
•
10/2009 STAR
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Alerts & CAP
•Common Alert Protocol
•Structured information format for alerts
•Used by i.e. GDACS, USGS
•Including links to more detailed information
•Support cell broadcasting / SMS distribution
•Alerts are automated and frequently imported from different sources
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Wiki
Tsunami Samoa / Tonga IM support
Wiki = Collection
of web sites,
easy to edit
and flexible
•About PDN, Help (Animations started),
Development information, Newsletter ...
•Used for the Tsunami in Samoa and
Tonga for Information Management
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Local Edition (Offline), Mobile Edition (PDA)
Pacific Disaster Net is available online – but also offline as ‘Local Edition’, on DVDs
which will be frequently updated and distributed, allowing a much wider outreach
even into communities without Internet access.
A ‘Mobile Edition’ for PDA’s like BlackBerry etc. is in development and also including
data subsets for download.
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Statistics & Content 09/2009
DRM documents / resources
•
Fiji Floods
•
Solomon Islands Floods
•
Fiji Red Cross Material
•
Pacific Platform
•
Global Platform
•
SOPAC Virtual Library
•
CRP Volume I (CD collection)
•
Tsunami Samoa / Tonga
•
Media - 19 Videos
•
Alerts - min. 3 daily from different sources, plus events
•
PDN team extended to 1 Researcher and 2 Junior Researcher /
Cataloger - shared tasks with efficient workflows established
•
OCHA supporting Calendar information
PDN
Total
2009
Documents
3049
1535
Events
1210
70
Calendar
191
146
Contacts
473
194
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
IM for DRM – overview
Projects & Capacities
(www.pdrmpn.net/pdrmpn)
NDMO Websites
RFA Monitoring
(www.pacificdisaster.net/rfa/)
Pacific Disaster Net
(www.pacificdisaster.net)
Newsletter
Partnership portal
(www.pdrmpn.net)
PDN country missions
Baseline & Assessments
(DevInfo / EmergencyInfo)
National observatories
(DesInventar / GRIP)
PDPN mailing list
(http://list.sopac.org.fj/mailman/admin/pdpn/)
DPCC Matrix
(www.pacificdisaster.net/dpccmatrix
)
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
IM for DRM – overview
Projects & Capacities
(www.pacificdisaster.net/pdrmpn)
NDMO Websites
RFA Monitoring
(www.pacificdisaster.net/rfa/)
Pacific Disaster Net
(www.pacificdisaster.net)
Newsletter
PDN country missions
Baseline & Assessments
(DevInfo / EmergencyInfo)
National observatories
(DesInventar / GRIP)
PDPN mailing list
(http://list.sopac.org.fj/mailman/admin/pdpn/)
DPCC Matrix
(www.pacificdisaster.net/dpccmatrix
)
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
IM for DRM – overview
Projects & Capacities
(www.pdrmpn.net/pdrmpn)
NDMO Websites
RFA Monitoring
(www.pacificdisaster.net/rfa/)
Pacific Disaster Net
(www.pacificdisaster.net)
Newsletter
PDN country missions
Baseline & Assessments
(DevInfo / EmergencyInfo)
National observatories
(DesInventar / GRIP)
PDPN mailing list
(http://list.sopac.org.fj/mailman/admin/pdpn/)
DPCC Matrix
(www.pacificdisaster.net/dpccmatrix
)
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
IM for DRM – overview
Projects & Capacities
(www.pacificdisaster.net/pdrmpn)
NDMO Websites
RFA Monitoring
(www.pacificdisaster.net/rfa/)
Pacific Disaster Net
(www.pacificdisaster.net)
Newsletter
PDN country missions
Baseline & Assessments
(DevInfo / EmergencyInfo)
National observatories
(DesInventar / GRIP)
PDPN mailing list
(http://list.sopac.org.fj/mailman/admin/pdpn/)
DPCC Matrix
(www.pacificdisaster.net/dpccmatrix
)
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
NDMO Websites
Why
• Saves time – availability of information/data supporting activities ie hazards, risks, public awareness,
medium for exchange, reduce time for ad hoc requests for info
• Visibility of NDMO
• Disseminate information particularly wrt immediate hazards
• User friendly country specific site
• Public information and feedback
• 24/7
• Outreach (offline as well)
Target audience
• General public
• Regional and
international partners
• Media
• Schools
• Response agencies
• Donors
• Taskforce members
Info and tools
• Public awareness info
• Evacuation plans incl routes,
shelters, critical facilities/areas
• Sector plans
• DRM training info – opportunities,
info
• BLACKBOARD – info sharing
forum for NDMOs
• Links to other relevant sites – nat.
and Intl.
Concerns
• Access and maintenance
• Costs
• Capacity building for staff
• Timeliness of setting up a site
• Commitment of NDMO
• Piracy
• Site to meet dreams and
needs!!
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Strengthen Disaster IM systems
•Pilot project in Fiji for the region
•Develop tools and procedures to guide IM during response and for
disaster risk reduction
•Baseline data
•Humanitarian indicators from different sectors
•Pre-disaster reference points for preparedness, response and risk
reduction
•Relevant, timely and consistent
•Assessments
•Multi-cluster approach - rapid and in-depth
•Agreed methodology and capacity (including new technologies like
handheld devices etc.)
•Harmonized, focussed and shared
•National Disaster Observatories
•Host information on disasters and associated losses
•Systematic collection to create an evidence base
•Supporting analysis, planning and strengthening national disaster risk
reduction
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Future Plans & Contact
Future plans
•
Country missions with Introductions, Trainings and Content collection
•
Enhanced IM for DRM in the Pacific region (Partnership portal, NDMO websites,
Baseline data, National Disaster Observatories, ...)
•
CAP Alerts for the Pacific Region
•
Search Engine
•
Newsletter enhancement
•
Content feeding, Data population, Evaluation and Surveys
•
PDN Review and Re-Design
•
and more …
Contact
Jutta May -
jutta@sopac.org
Litea Biukoto –
litea@sopac.org
http://www.pacificdisaster.net
SOPAC – Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission - Community Risk Programme
Postal Address: Private Mail Bag, GPO, Suva, Fiji Islands
Street Address: Mead Road, Nabua, Fiji Islands
Tel: +679 338 1377 | Fax: +679 337 0040 | http://www.sopac.org
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Challenges
•
Raise awareness and establish Information Management for DRM
•
Information ‘sharing’ and content collection / update is a challenge (Ownership)
•
Quality assurance - Prepare received information according to requirements
(standards ?)
•
Asia and Pacific as region
•
Usability - or What is user friendly ?
•
Target audience
•
Different users and their Expectations, Capacities - Technology (Bandwidth,
Hardware, ...), Online experience
•
Growing file sizes of documents are a growing problem
•
Start / make it simple ! - Reduction to main functionalities and available content
•
Technical details (One / multiple / sub-entries with relationships etc.)
•
Interactivity / Links / Visibility
•
Other concerns ?
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
www.sopac.org
Questions ?
Thank you !