3rd
LIRNEasia's Disaster Risk Reduction Public Lecture
19
June 2012 15:00 – 17:00
Sri
Lanka Foundation Institute, 100 Independent Square, Colombo 07
Please
join us to discuss how to improve disaster risk reduction practices.
There
is a growing need to dilute inter-agency rivalry and foster lateral
integration for sharing of risk information for effective response.
To that end, the public lecture will focus on actions to improve
alerting and situational-reporting between agencies. Thereby,
reducing the decision-maker's loss functions; namely, reduction of
false and missed alarms, stakeholder losses, and policy-maker losses.
A proven action would be to establish an emergency communication
profile for Sri Lanka and and implementing a multi-agency
situational-awareness software tool. Such a tool and procedures can
help bring organizations together to better communicating risk
information and ease them away from unproductive silo thinking. It
will also allow the national Disaster Management Center to better
regulate those communications.
The
main
speaker
is LIRNEasia's Senior Research Fellow: Nuwan
Waidyanatha.
He has strong
credentials in disaster management, especially with emergency
communication and early warning systems design, development, and
experimentation. His
research is highly regarded and continuously promoted by
international organizations such as the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO),
International Telecommunications Union (ITU),
Organization for the Advancement of Standardized Information Systems
(OASIS)
and the United Nations System for Influenza Coordination (UNSIC).
Additionally, disaster management researchers and practitioners from
the North Americas and the Asia Pacific consult to benefit from his
first hand knowledge in the subject
The
Panelists:
Prof.
Dileeka Dias,
(Director, University of Moratuwa Dialog Mobile Communications
Research Laboratory), Mr.
Mifan Careem
(Chief Executive Officer, Respere Lanka), and Dr.
Buddhi Weerasinghe
(independent Regional Disaster Management Consultant) will complement
the main talk with their contributions in strengthening Sri Lanka's
disaster management capabilities.
LIRNEasia’
s premier CSR activity intended to advance knowledge about good
disaster risk reduction practices in Sri Lanka and the region.
