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How Responsible AI is Shaping Crisis Management & Public Safety

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Instead of waiting for an incident to happen, AI enables organizations to predict and mitigate risks before they escalate. AI is also helping hospitals manage emergency response, using predictive analytics to anticipate surges in patient volume during crises. Government agencies handle vast amounts of data.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Note, first, that in a disaster a government cannot help but spend money on it, and copiously; secondly that good planning and wise investments can avoid enormous losses and casualties; thirdly, that what I have just recounted is true for most other kinds of major disaster; and fourthly that we face bigger, more spectacular events in the future.

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Conducting effective tabletop exercises for emergency preparedness

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Preparedness is the cornerstone of effective emergency management and business continuity planning. Tabletop exercises are a critical tool in developing, testing, and refining emergency response strategies. They bring together relevant stakeholders to simulate a real-life event and walk through the necessary steps to handle it.

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Strengthening security resilience: A proactive approach to evolving threats

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Organizations face a growing need to adapt their security strategies, ensuring they can anticipate, mitigate, and respond to threats effectively. Strengthening crisis preparedness and incident response Organizations need to have well-documented incident response and business continuity plans in place.

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Lessons from Valencia’s Deadly Floods and the Role of AI in Disaster Preparedness

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

On October 29, 2024, Spains Valencia region was devastated by an extreme weather event : one years worth of rain fell in a period of eight hours, causing catastrophic flash floods that claimed 228 lives. What role can AI play in helping to mitigate the impact of future extreme weather events? the exposure and thus risk).

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Why are the lessons of these devastating events so easily forgotten or ignored? Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. In addition the city's emergency plan has been comprehensively revised. Let us hope that it becomes popular.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 Floods and storms were the most prevalent events.”. The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events.