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[13-15 October] Natasha Udu-gama, LIRNEasia’s HazInfo Project Dissemination Manager, will make a presentation at the Workshop Disaster Management and Space Technology - Bridging the Gap. This event is part of the Second International United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), being held in Bonn, Germany.

Click here to read more about LIRNEasia participation in the workshop.

Click here to download the workshop announcement.

More information about the UN-SPIDER programme.

[13 May 2008] Natasha Udu-gama will conduct a Colloquium on the LIRNEasia Disaster Project, which will elaborate the SMS module for this project.

The Colloquium will begin at 4.00 p.m. Sri Lankan time and will be blogged in real time via the LIRNEasia website.

To participate in this event via Skypecast, please register in advance with Lara Alawattegama.
Contact: alawattegama [at] lirne [dot] net

[5 March 2008] LIRNEasia’s Project Dissemination Manager for the Last Mile Hazard Warning System (HazInfo) project, Natasha Udu-gama, will act as facilitator and presenter on “Methodology, Preparedness, Training and Community Organization” and “Determination of the Hazard from the National Level” from the HazInfo Sri Lanka experience at the Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-based Last-Mile Warning Systems conference.

Nuwan Waidyanatha, Project Manager for LIRNEasia’s Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination in Sri Lanka project will present “Transmission of Warning to Local Levels” and “First Responder Action”. LIRNEasia Executive Director, Rohan Samarajiva will present “Elements of a Community-Based Warning System” and “Roles of Policy Makers, Regulators, Private Sector, & Civil Society”.

The event will take place at the Hotel Borobodur, Jakarta, Indonesia 4.
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[19 Nov 07] During the second workshop on “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-based Last-Mile Warning Systems,” LIRNEasia members will present and analyze the latest outcomes of the HazInfo Project. The event takes place at the Willow Room, India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi; and is jointly organized by LIRNEasia and the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) .

Professor Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director of LIRNEasia, will present “Elements of a Community-Based Warning System” and “Roles of Policymakers, Regulators, Private Sector, and Civil Society.”

Nuwan Waidyanatha, HazInfo Project Manager, will present “Determination of Hazard at National Level: Sri Lanka Experience.”

Natasha Udu-gama, HazInfo Project Dissemination Manager, will present “First Responder Action: HazInfo Experience” and “Transmission of Warning to Local Levels: HazInfo Experience.”

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An article by Chanuka Wattegama (LIRNEasia’s Organizational Development Director) entitled “Lessons from the ‘vanished’ tsunami” was published in Sri Lanka’s The Nation newspaper. Wattegama considers responses to the latest false Pacific Tsunami warning on 12 September and observes that national level risk mitigation and evacuation plans were full of pitfalls and mismanagement.

Go to newspaper page with Wattegama article.

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