E-Resilience: Network Planning
It is essential that ICT networks are appropriately planned (e.g., built, maintained and protected), considering that ICT infrastructure is critical to enable effective disaster risk management. For example, resilient communication networks facilitate humanitarian response in the wake of a disaster. 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 network planning.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 11 tools and best practices relevant to network planning.
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An online resource to help mobile network operators join forces with NGOs rapidly and effectively in times of disasters.
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The portable backpack-type mobile base station can be applied in disaster situations when communications networks are unavailable.
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The Beidou Navigation Satellite system is used to monitor natural disasters occurring in the Peoples Republic of China.
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InaSAFE is free software that produces realistic natural hazard impact scenarios for better planning, preparedness and response activities.
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Pakistan Disaster Info is an open source data platform that aims to enable sharing of geospatial datasets and maps on hazards and exposure.
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Open Data for Resilience Initiative is designed to reduce vulnerability to natural hazard through data collection and data analysis.
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GEOSS is a set of coordinated, independent Earth observation, information and processing systems that interact and offer information to various sectors.