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  • Building capacity on Common Alerting Protocol for Nepal

    Building capacity on Common Alerting Protocol for Nepal

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    Biplov Bhandari
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    Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) Nepal is in the process of operationalizing the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v 1.2 – enabled Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO): DHM Nepal Warning and Situational-Awareness System. I have been working closely with friends from DHM in helping to get the system up and running. DHM is expected…

  • ITU Kaleiderscope best paper awarded to SAMBRO

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    We presented our paper on the “intricacies of implementing the ITU-T X.1303 recommended warning standard for cross-agency situational-awareness in Myanmar, Philippines, and Maldives at ITU Kaleiderscope (2016). It is an IEEE conference sponsored by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB). The paper was not technical in the strict sense but discussed ICT policy relevant findings that…

  • SAMBRO Narrowing the Response Distance in the Maldives

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Intricacies of Managing Island Emergencies Placing and maintaining emergency services in each Island, in the Maldives, can be costly for the Government. It does not make economic sense for the Government to place an air ambulatory service and a fire brigade in each Island. Some Islands have an inhabitant population of, less than, a 1000…

  • Alert Hubs, a Topic at the 2016 CAP Forum Among Experts

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Alert Hubs will play a significant role in receiving and sharing early warnings. It was anticipated that each Nation would require to host a National Alert Hub. Those Alert Hubs would feed into the Global Filtered Alert Hubs. Eliot Christian in his presentation said, “With so many countries implementing CAP-enabled alerting, we can see that…

  • SAMBRO Warning Exercise in the Maldives

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    SAMBRO Centralizes Emergency Information Management but Decentralizes the Emergency Management Responsibilities To prove the concept, we carried out early warning controlled-exercises in the Island of Tulesdoo, in the Maldives. It’s located 27KM DIRECTION of the capitol city Male. Similar to other Islands, the Island Council members are also responsible for emergency and crisis response. The…

  • Myanmar trained their SAMBRO Users

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Myanmar SAMBRO Users pose with their situational-awareness map in the backdrop. After two days of training (25 & 26 Feb, 2016), they now have a better understanding as to how the system will improve their alerting efficiency and institutional responsiveness to local and national scale hazard events. The Key Myanmar Users received training, from the…

  • Symbols in Alerting

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Often people are misconstrued by alert messages and act inappropriately because they have not fully understood the message; especially, when they are short-text messages with partial information. There are many challenges with cognition, or understanding, of public warning messages. UNESCO estimates, on average, 30% of South/West Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans to be illiterate. Those countries…

  • Europe’s IES evaluates Sahana Eden CAP Broker for adoption

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Recently, in Geneva, I met Massimo Cristaldi (CTO  Intelligence for Environment & Security – IES –  Solutions) at the CAP Implementation Workshop (23-25 April 2013). He mentioned, during a tea-break chat, that they evaluated the Sahana-Eden CAP Broker for possible adoption. Given that the Sahana-Eden CAP Broker was not fully developed, they default to building…