E-Resilience: Contingency Planning
Contingency planning is a process that analyses specific potential events or emerging situations, such as natural disasters, that might threaten society or critical ICT infrastructure and establishes arrangements in advance to enable timely, effective and appropriate responses to such events and situations. For instance, in the context of ICT networks, a contingency plan should contain detailed guidance and procedures for restoring damaged ICT infrastructure unique to the system’s security impact level and recovery requirements. 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 contingency planning.
Displaying 8 - 14 of 16 tools and best practices relevant to contingency planning.
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ERDAS IMAGINE is a geospatial data authoring system, including tools for remote sensing, photogrammetry and GIS processing.
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PDC Disaster Alert is a free, global multi-hazard monitoring and alerting application for smartphones.
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The UN-APCICT virtual academy offers training modules in ICT for Disaster Risk Management, among others.
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Sahana is a free, open-source modular software platform for disaster management and humanitarian assistance.
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IDRN is a web-based platform for managing inventories of equipment, human resources and critical supplies for emergency response.
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PAGASA provides weather forecasts and risk / flood hazard maps through ICT in the Philippines.
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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.