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 8 - 11 of 11 tools and best practices relevant to network planning.
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ThinkHazard! is a new web-based tool enabling non-specialists to consider the impacts of disasters on new development projects.
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The Cyclone Preparedness Program (CPP) operates an extensive network of radio communications facilities in the coastal areas of Bangladesh.
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The UN-APCICT virtual academy offers training modules in ICT for Disaster Risk Management, among others.
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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.