ICT for risk management

FP6 Strategic Objective 2.5.12

ICT for Environment

Information Society & Media DG
European Commission, Brussels
Guy Weets
Deputy Head of Unit

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Evolving disaster reduction paradigm

RISK = Hazard *Vulnerability
1. Comprehensive emergency management
Focus on response
2. Disaster-resistant communities
Focus on natural hazard prevention
3. Resilient communities
Living with disasters and focus on rapid recovery
Covers the whole risk management chain
4. Sustainable disaster mitigation
Focus on processes linking environment, development
and disaster
Vulnerability of people, infrastructure, environment
Capacity building
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The risk management cycle

Awareness and Prevention
Hazard prediction and modeling
Risk assessment and mapping
Systemic risks
Regional/city Planning
E-Learning ..

Preparation

Monitoring & early warning

Scenarios development
Emergency Planning maps
Training

Alert

DSS
Scenario identification
all media alarm
Secure &dependable
telecom

Recovery
Lessons learnt
Scenario update
Socio-economic and
environmental impact
assessment
Spatial re-planning

Sustained
response
Interventions that restore
Functionality of critical
systems and meet social
needs.

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Immediate response

Emergency telecommunication
Command control coordination
Situational awareness
Dispatching of resources
Communication to the citizens

General objectives
1. To contribute to the deployment of an Info-structure for
environmental monitoring and risk management in Europe
2. To promote the development of related cost-effective ICT
services
System integration & solution driven approach
Market & user needs driven

Focus on generic solutions

Re-usable software components
Open source software
Interoperability, scalability
->work on system architecture

Based on state-of-the-art risk/environment science

Specific technological developments when needed

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The strategic approach

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1. To cover the whole risk management cycle.
Risk assessment, preparedness, early warning,
alert, response, recovery, lessons learnt etc.
2. To cover all environmental hazards, including
systemic risks / cascading risks
3. To focus on system architecture rather than
specific applications
To decrease the development and maintenance
cost whilst improving reliability, scalability and
interoperability

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The strategic approach (cont)

4. To support large scale pilot test with endusers as well as training activities
5. To foster pre-standardisation activities as an
integral part of RTD
6. To promote open source software as a mean
to improve the uptake of RTD results
7. To contribute to the relevant EU policies and
actions: GEOSS, INSPIRE, GMES,

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Some ICT issues

response

Situational awareness: how to obtain, sustain common

operating picture in a distributed decision environment under
conditions of uncertainty.
Information overload: how to filter information and still get the
right information to the right people at the right time, how to
minimize degradation of decision process due to information
overload.
Real time decision support: how to provide robust, and
applicable models, ensure data and system availability where
and when needed.
Supporting response management operations: how to
coordinate and track activities and resources in multiple
organizations and operations centers during extremely large
and complex operations.

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Some ICT Issues

response

Communicating to community, victims, the media: how to

ensure that warning systems warn, that crisis communications
communicate
Communication interoperability and security: how to provide
technology and systems that are open enough to connect all
necessary parties while controlling access
Utilizing and controlling ad hoc communications: Cell phones,
satellite phone, text messaging, internet
Identifying and tracking people (victims and workers) and
things. How to facilitate the process of identifying the survivors
and the dead, notifying appropriate authorities, tracking victims,
tracking and verifying identity of workers and things

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Strategy implementation
1. Information infrastructure for risk management

Hazard, vulnerability, risk maps

Interoperability of geo-spatial data
Open service architecture
Web services, metadata registries
Semantic web, ontologies
Sensor networks

2. Improved emergency management

Command control coordination

Full situational awareness
Emergency maps
In a multi-lingual/cultural environment

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Strategy implementation( cont)

3. Public safety communications

Early warning systems

All hazard all media alarm systems
Rapidly deployable broadband telecom
Positioning systems

4. Regional and city planning

Reduced vulnerability
Evacuation
Etc.

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Major IST Integrated projects

1a. Development of an open architecture (eINFRASTRUCTURE)
for risk management services in Europe:
Overcoming heterogeneity and fragmentation;
Cross-system navigation and search;
Workflow management, collaborative working, language
issues, interface to satellite EO ground segment;
Will deliver publicly available specifications and open
source software;
(ORCHESTRA & WIN) www.eu-orchestra.org & www.win-eu.org

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Major IST Integrated projects

1b.Risk monitoring systems, sensor network
architecture
2 new IP in negotiation: SANY, OSIRIS
2. Emergency management:
Command & control system to support response
& rescue operations in large scale emergencies
Full situational awareness integrating positioning
with GIS info and emergency telecom.OASIS
project: www.oasis-fp6.org
3. Public safety communication
2 new IP in negotiation: CHORIST, U-2010
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IST SSA
Actions to support the convergence effort in the field of
public safety communication. ( public safety
communication stakeholder forum)

Project NARTUS

Sucessful call 6 proposals will be

required to liaise with relevant
major projects and participate to
workshops on common issues
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I wish you a successful

proposal

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