Post on 18-Jun-2015
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Integrated Risk Management for Africa
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IRMA key data
• European Commission funded Research Project• 3 years• € 3.5M total budget - € 2.5M EC contribution• Started in June 2008
• 9 EU & 6 African Partners – including major players in the IP business– the governments of Luxembourg, Mozambique and
Morocco participate to support the emergency service trials
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IRMA Vision
• ICT Environmental Risk Management • Though telecommunication infrastructure is limited• Though data is limited• In addition: new applications in support of regional
development:– Environmental management– Regional planning– Next generation IP based networks
IRMA Goals
• ICT Multi-Risk Platform (mostly Open Source)• Integrate existing services and technologies (risk
assessment to recovery)• Develop local services• Demonstrate value in 5 scenarios
IRMA technical approach
• Integration and adaptation to the specific conditions of Africa of the best R&D results coming from recent or on-going European R&D projects:– Overall service oriented architecture: WIN & ORCHESTRA– Earth observation service environment : ESA SSE, GENESIS– Sensor network software : SANY– Ad-hoc wireless networks : u2010– IPv6 based solutions : u2010– Automatic handling of network failure: u2010
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IRMA Expected Achievements
• A coherent suite of architectural concepts and methodologies applicable to multi-risks management situations in Africa, including advanced multiple vulnerability assessment to cope with complex emergencies.
• An integrated set of tools, compliant with the above mentioned concepts and methodologies and with current and emerging international standards.
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IRMA Expected Achievements
• A pre-operational infrastructure and access-platform, assessed by end-users through operational scenarios serving as reference for further prototyping and future larger scale deployments
• Specific applications (bushfire, flood, desertification and urban risks) dedicated to the demonstration of multi-risks management in Africa.
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IRMA Expected Achievements
• A versatile communications system enabling high and/or low rates Internet transfer.
• A reliable, low cost communications system enabling alert messages and possibly emergency communications in any location of Africa (i.e. even where no electricity is supplied)
• A management concept to monitor and automatically control the functions of services and networks shown as critical through the dependability and vulnerability analysis.
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IRMA Communication Network
CSIR
UTICT
ENSP
CSE
CRTSANRT
ULCCGSESTSF
SPB
TAS-F
Internet
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IRMA: the Senegal Scenarios (Bush Fire and Desertification)
Desertification
CSE
Internet
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IRMA: the Mozambique Scenarios (Floods)
UTICT
Internet
FLOODS
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The Floods Scenario in Mozambique
Source: USGS/FEWS NET
More information on
http://www.irma.lu
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