E-Resilience: Communication with Citizens
Effective and appropriate communication with citizens is essential to disaster risk management and enhanced e-resilience in the Asia-Pacific region. The E-Resilience Toolkit offers insights into a spectrum of available ICT tools and best practices that may benefit policymakers, DRM professionals and vulnerable communities in Asia and the Pacific to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of communication with citizens.
Displaying 8 - 12 of 12 tools and best practices relevant to communication with citizens.
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New Zealand uses seismic sensors able to characterise potential tsunami-generating earthquakes occurring off the country's coast.
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Safety Check is a feature of Facebook that is meant to help users quickly alert friends and family that they are safe during times of crisis.
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Get Ready Get Thru is an online multilingual guide for New Zealand to plan for and respond to disasters.
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PDC Disaster Alert is a free, global multi-hazard monitoring and alerting application for smartphones.
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EM-DAT is an online database of historical disaster related information maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Its is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.