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Integrated Risk Management for Africa 1

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Integrated Risk Management in Africa

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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

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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

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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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The Floods Scenario in Mozambique

Source: USGS/FEWS NET

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