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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

There is currently intense interest in the possible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the management of disasters. At the present time, perhaps the greatest potential of AI in disaster management is in its presumed ability to use its algorithms and data banks to provide synthesised information quicker than traditional methods can do so.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Emergency planning excluded emergency planners and was put in the hands of a consortium of medical doctors and politicians, yet half the battle in a pandemic is to manage the logistical, social and economic consequences. Despite the obvious need for mitigation, emergency response capability cannot be neglected.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. Emergency planning is a vital occupation.

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Disaster Accountability Project

Disaster Zone Podcast

You can find all the details at www.smartresponse.org The podcast guest is Ben Smilowitz,ben@disasteraccountabilityproject.org He witnessed the bungled Hurricane Katrina response while managing a high-volume Red Cross Client Service Center in Gulfport, MS. Haiti and Nepal. Haiti and Nepal.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic.

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How to Create and Leverage a Business Continuity Checklist for Emergency Planning

Alert Media

The post How to Create and Leverage a Business Continuity Checklist for Emergency Planning appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Becoming proactive and investing in disaster risk reduction and enterprise resilience; through critical event management solutions, public safety solutions , and Public Warning systems. This is what, in the climate environment, the World Meteorological Organization and Disaster Management Agencies at national Government levels are doing.