[kictanet] Webcast Tomorrow: Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age, Oct 8-9

[Harry Hare]

Fyi...might interest some of you.

Cheers
Harry
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From: <edevelopment at worldbank.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:23:55 -0400
To: <e-Development_TG_External at worldbank.org>,
<e-Development_TG_External_1 at worldbank.org>
Subject: Webcast Tomorrow: Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age,
Oct 8-9


Dear colleagues

      We invite you to participate in the live webcast of a workshop on
?Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age? organized by the World
Bank's
Global Information Communication and Technology Department, infoDev, Global
Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and the Latin American
Disaster Risk Management team. Jointly we have put together an exciting
program
of panel discussions on different aspects of using ICT to assess, mitigate,
prepare, and recover from disasters.

      You can also post comments and questions on our new eDevelopment Blog:
http://edevelopmentblog.org

Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age

Oct. 8-9, 2008, 9:00 - 1:30 pm ET


LIVE WEBCAST:
 http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live




All workshop materials will be available at:
http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment


Program Description

Between 1980 and 2006, natural disasters killed more than 2 million people
worldwide and reported damages totaled 1.2 trillion USD. For example, the
2005
Pakistan earthquake caused about $5 billion damages. There were 5,210
disasters
worldwide between 1991 and 2005. The World Bank has a large lending
portfolio of
natural disaster risk management projects: 195 active and pipeline projects
amounting to USD 8248 Million. How does the information revolution change
the
way we deal with disasters?

The key objective of this workshop is to raise awareness on the
opportunities to
improve the impact of disaster risk management projects via innovative and
effective use of ICT and to help understand better key lessons learned,
success
factors and good practices. A series of case studies and presentations will
discuss the enabling and transformational role of ICT applications
throughout
the full cycle of Disaster Risk Management activities: risk assessment,
mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

The  Workshop  will  identify  challenges  and  key  issues,  best practices
and
critical  success factors, latest trends, solutions and technologies, as
well as
the   policy  recommendations  and  opportunities  for  mainstreaming  and
more
effective use of ICT in the World Bank disaster risk management portfolio.

How to make ICT a transformational enabler of better disaster risk
management?
What are the critical success factors for effective application of ICT in
this
area? What is the role of open source, mobile and other Web 2.0 tools? What
is
the role of Public Private Partnerships?

The workshop will feature a number of distinguished experts:

   Alta Haggarty (UN OCHA)
   Gianluca Bruni (UN World Food Program, via VC from Rome)
   Chanuka Wattegama (LIRNEasia, formerly with UNDP)
   Paul Margie (Telecom Sans Frontiers)
   Charles Scawthorn (Kyoto University)
   Carmelle Terborgh (ESRI)
   Inderjit Claire (RMSI)
   Eric Rasmussen (InSTEDD)
   Gisli Olafsson (Microsoft)
   Andrew Levy (IBM)
   S. Rangarajan (World Space)
   John C. Scott (Center for Public Service Communications)
   Ken Zita (Network Dymanics Associates)
   Bill Gail (Microsoft)
   Saroj Jha (GFDRR/World Bank)
   Francis Ghesquiere (World Bank)
   Philippe Dongier (World Bank)
   Valerie D'Costa (infoDev)
   Deepak Bhatia (World Bank)
   Uwe Deichmann (World Bank)
   Samia Melhem (World Bank))
   Hemang Karelia (GFDRR)
   Ramesh Siva (World Bank)))
   Sanjaya Bhatia (GFDRR)
   Edward Anderson (World Bank))
   Trond Vedeld (World Bank)
   Reza Firuzabadi (World Bank))



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