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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

One of these is emergency planning, the process of anticipating needs caused by disaster impacts and making arrangements to satisfy them as well as possible with available resources. Large language models can help chart the progress of public perception of disaster threats and impacts, as manifest in the mass media and social media.

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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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Disaster Accountability Project

Disaster Zone Podcast

Disaster Accountability Project has successfully advocated for the release of millions of dollars of disaster relief and recovery funds after Superstorm Sandy, investigated deficiencies in emergency planning surrounding 19 commercial U.S. Haiti and Nepal. Haiti and Nepal.

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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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Seeing and Hearing: Underrated Skills?

Emergency Planning

It is estimated that, thanks to electronic media, we come into contact with up to 70,000 images a day. None of these qualities is encouraged by electronic media; indeed, quite the reverse. There is an astonishing variety of statuary and ornamentation. These days it is impossible not to be blasé about imagery.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

I end this set of reflections with two models that are intended to show how reality is created by the power of perceptions and their transformation into shared opinions through socialisation using the powerful new tools that are available in modern mass communication, particularly social media. The Division of Labour in Society. (

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Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

Bernstein Crisis Management

As someone who’s seen it first-hand many times, I’ll guarantee those with prior planning and preparedness spend less money, lose less customers, generate less negative media coverage, and generally get back to ‘business as usual’ much more quickly than those without. What’s putting reputations at risk.