Tag: Maldives
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SAMBRO Usability and Acceptability Presented at CPRSouth2017
It is coming close to an year since the Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO) was operationalized in Maldives, Myanmar, and the Philippines. A challenge was for authorities, in those three countries, to coordinate warnings across disparate communication systems and autonomous organizations. The CAP-enabled SAMBRO was designed to overcome those issues by providing a Common…
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Cyber-attacks and Power-failure: Disrupters of ICT use in Warning Dissemination
We have been monitoring the accessibility of the Myanmar and Maldives SAMBRO servers. Our remote server, in Singapore, pings each of the servers every 10 minutes and logs whether the server was accessible over the Internet or not. Accessibility has been extremely poor in both countries over the past 20 days. We found out that…
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ITU Kaleiderscope best paper awarded to SAMBRO
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…
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Maldives Launches “Dhandhaana” for Early Warning
Dhandhaana in Divehi means “Reach”. This is the name the Maldives National Disaster Management Center (NDMC) has given the Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO) implementation. Now SAMBRO powers NDMC to reach the communities at risk with alerts and warnings. The implementation was the a key outcome of the “CAP on a Map” project; funded…
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Alert Hubs, a Topic at the 2016 CAP Forum Among Experts
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…
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SAMBRO Warning Exercise in the Maldives
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…
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None Forgotten with Sahana Situational-Awareness – Maldives!
A Ministry of Tourism (MOT), Health Protection Agency (HPA), and the Maldives Red Crescent Society (MRCS) concern was: why the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) and the National Disaster Management Center (NDMC) did not notify other organizations during crises? Fare enough, MNDF and NDMC primary objective is assessing the situation, dispatching response resources, and mitigating the…
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Training of Trainer Workshop Final Day with ESCAP
The final day of the Training of Master Trainers Workshop was primarily interactions with the CAP on a Map project UNESCAP Program Officer: Mr. Alf Blikberg. The participants had the opportunity to present their cases to him. The outline of their presentation discussed the current early warning practices in their country, their satisfaction/dissatisfaction on the…
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Training of SAMBRO Trainers
Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO) continues to mature; especially with the Maldives, Myanmar, and Philippine implementations. Trainees from the three countries belonging to their Meteorological and Disaster Management Agencies are receiving training. They will receive training on GIS concepts, techniques, and tools required for developing predefined alert areas and training on administering, configuring, and…
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CAP on a Map project kickoff in the Maldives
A workshop and set of meetings (April 15 & 16, 2015) took place in the capitol city Male in the Maldives. It was an event of the CAP on a Map kickoff in the Maldives. The project aims to improve the institutional responsiveness to all-hazards. The workshop and meeting, serving as a platform to initiate…