Tag: Myanmar

  • SAMBRO Usability and Acceptability Presented at CPRSouth2017

    SAMBRO Usability and Acceptability Presented at CPRSouth2017

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    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…

  • Cyber-attacks and Power-failure: Disrupters of ICT use in Warning Dissemination

    Cyber-attacks and Power-failure: Disrupters of ICT use in Warning Dissemination

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    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…

  • 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…

  • Teach Myanmar CAP and They will have CAP for Life

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    The Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) has championed in implementing and operationalizing their warning and situational-awareness platform, hosted at www.dmhwarnings.gov.mm Workshop Intro To discuss the next steps and bring closure to the CAP on a Map project, a dissemination workshop was held in Naypyitaw (02 September 2016). The workshop was held at the Hotel…

  • 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 Tested and Myanmar is Ready to Go Live

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    The Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) is now publishing live CAP feeds through their Warning and Situational-Awareness platform. Prior to making the decision to publish live alerts, through the CAP-enabled Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO), DMH and associated Stakeholders conducted a series of silent-tests and live-exercises.  The silent-tests, carried out over three…

  • Myanmar Loving the SAMBRO Mobile APP

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    We conducted controlled-exercises in the Nyaungdon and Kunyangong Townships in Myanmar. The SAMBRO mobile app was exciting to the participating emergency firs-responders. The number of participants grew from 10 to 25 when they heard of the mobile app and were keen in testing the application. A significant number of the first-responders; especially in Kunyangong, did…

  • 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…

  • Training of Trainer Workshop Final Day with ESCAP

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    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…

  • Training of SAMBRO Trainers

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    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…