Leeds University Business School New & Emergent ICTs, Climate Change & Developing Countries Stan Karanasios AIMTech Research Group Leeds University Business School

ADAPTATION DISASTER MANAGEMENT MONITORING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Observe, detect & predict, inform science and decision making Disaster management, communications, EWS Environment, health & resource management, building resilience, capacity building Scope of the activities

Leeds University Business School What is new and emergent?  Wireless/mobile broadband technologies  Wireless sensor networks  Information systems  Rapidly deployable communications  Web based tools  Mobile technologies

Leeds University Business School Source: Neves et al What wireless looks like

Leeds University Business School Monitoring systems in developing countries Using WSN Using UWB

Leeds University Business School Preparation and response: Emergency communication systems  Wireless broadband - strengthening communication links between rescue and relief units and Emergency Operation Centres  Establishing robust and reliable systems will continue to allow for voice and data communication during and after disasters Rapidly deployable communications  Wireless broadband temporary/ad-hoc networks  Mesh and MANET networks  Project DUMBO Disaster management

Leeds University Business School  GIS & information systems in disaster management  Sahana  Social networking media in disasters  Facebook, Twitter  Victim participation/empowerment  New type of information dissemination Disaster management

Leeds University Business School Social networking site example Source: maps#Map

Leeds University Business School Early warning systems Early warning system technologies Satellite radio Mobile phones Cell Broadcasting The Web Wireless Sensor Networks and wireless broadband The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

Leeds University Business School Climate change adaptation  Although little is happening, the technologies discussed hold promise  Key advantage of the wireless broadband and WSN examples provided in this paper is that they can span a range of activities  Clear that attaining community involvement /use is necessary  Mobile technology up-scaled using mobile broadband, smart-phones, mobile health  Telecentres, increase connectivity and bandwidth required for climate change applications

Leeds University Business School Discussion  Benefits of the new ICTs:  Technical feasibility/superiority, greater automation and accuracy, less expensive (relative), better response & information communication exchange, can predict and detect, scalable  Issues:  Still unclear how to converge new technologies with community needs and gain community involvement  $

Leeds University Business School Recommendations  Demonstrate the success and feasibility of new and emergent ICTs  Greater focus on adaptation activities  Invest in wireless infrastructure  Build upon established and successful technologies  Understand information requirements and build cross-platform interoperability