LIRNEasia in the news
Bernama.com, the official website of the Malaysian National News Agency, has published an article announcing “Sharing Knowledge On Disaster Warning: Community-Based Last Mile Warning Systems”, a three-nation workshop on tsunami preparedness, jointly organized by LIRNEasia and the Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety (BNUS) of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The event will be held on 25 October 2007 at BUET in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thirty disaster experts from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka are expected to attend.
Click here to go to the Bernama.com article.
The purpose of the workshop is to gather experts, practitioners and community organizations to discuss the findings of the HazInfo project and determine ways in which the project may be developed to suit community-based hazard information dissemination regionally. Under the project, satellite radios have been set up in 32 villages, which cover all over the Bay of Bengal. Besides, the project has succeeded in sending caution information and warning messages of disaster in different languages through mobile telephones.
LIRNEasia project dissemination manager, Natasha Udu-gama, is coordinating the event and will make presentations on the HazInfo Sri Lanka experience in two sessions: Session III – First Responder Action; and Session IV – Methodology, Preparedness, Training and Community Organization.
Workshop Brochure
To learn more about the HazInfo project, download the participatory concept paper for the design of an effective all-hazard public warning system titled, National Early Warning System: Sri Lanka (NEWS:SL), developed by LIRNEasia.
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