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Italian National Institute of Health - ISS |
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GDIN
Global Disaster Information Network
Taking off:
GDIN’s contribution to human health, survival and well-being
S.Spirito Monumental Building - Rome
17 — 21 June 2002
In collaboration with:
European Space Agency (ESA)
Italian Civil Protection Agency
Italian Higher Institute for Prevention and Safety at Work (ISPESL)
Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment (ENEA)
Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Italian Geological Survey
Italian Seismic Survey
National Agency Environment Protection (ANPA)
National Council of Research (CNR)
National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Web site: www.gdin.org
www.iss.it/GDIN
PRECONFERENCE EVENTS
June 17-18, 2002
Annual meeting of the UN Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications WGET
managed by UN OCHA — Hans Zimmerman
June 18
Afternoon Early Registration - Main Hall
10-5pm Academic Working Group - Room two
- Executive Committee Meeting - Room Three
CONFERENCE EVENTS
JULY 19, 2002 - Wednesday - Day One
8:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-11:00 Session one - Opening Speeches — Main Hall
Annual Report of Executive Director, Larry Roeder
Outcomes sought from conference for development of GDIN and process for amendments to GDIN documents and nomination procedures — Chair Executive Committee, Alan Hodges
11-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00pm Session two - Opening Speeches— Main Hall
EC — Anver Ghazi, UN — Under Secretary General Oshima, Report on GDIN2001 - Australia EMA
1:00-2:30pm Lunch
2:30-4:00pm - Scientific Papers - Main Hall
- Infectious Disease Working Group - Room Two
- Info Facilitator/Standards Working Group
- Room Four
Session 1 of 3
Focus on Need for Standards, how to achieve them and results of GDIN Survey
4:00-4:30pm Coffee Break
4:30-5:30pm GDIN Disaster Simulation Exercise - Room Three
Disaster Destructo
5:30-6:30pm Cocktail party in Courtyard
6:30- 7:00pm Executive Committee Meeting - Room Three
Preps for Day Two
June 20, 2002 - Thursday - Day Two
Man Made Disasters
9-10:30 MEDIN - Session 1 of 2, Anver Ghazi of EC - Main Hall
- Rising risks in the Mediterranean area for human health and for the settlements and safety, ISPESL, Milan 1 Univ.-"Bicocca" Univ.-Rome 3 Univ.-INFN-IRMN,ISPESL
- Other papers by MEDIN
Preparedness Work Shop — Room Two
- Risk analysis and environmental consequences ISPESL, (see legend), "La Sapienza" Univ.
- Thermal Dose increasing of accidental scenarios due to industrial paving, ISPESL
- Assessment of gravity of toxic substances, ISPESL, SSC-Niguarda Hosp.
- Information to the public in compliance with the Seveso II, ISPESL
NGO Working Group - Room Four
- Role and information problems of NGO’s in Disasters, American red Cross and Interaction
8:30-10:30 Tutorial - Room Three
- An introduction to the modeling of large-scale disaster management, and experimental dynamic analysis in the preservation of civil structures. ENEA
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Key Note Address on Information problems related to Man Made Disasters - Main Hall
11:30-1:00pm Executive Committee - Main Hall
- Amendments to Business Plan, Ankara Declaration, Strategic Plan, ByLaws, Nominations for Officers and Conference Sites.
Early Intervention Work Shop - Room Two
- Group Decision Support and Training Tools for the Emergency Response, ENEA
- Terminological tool as information system retrieval, ISPESL
- Human health risk analysis, ISPESL, ENI
GIS/RS Working Group - Session 1 of 3 - CJ Cote - Room Four
- Working Group presentations
- Contribute of remote sensing and modelling techniques to mitigate consequences of accidental releases of dangerous substances in the atmosphere. ISPESL
- Contribution from SPOT
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:30pm Importance of regional Cooperation in GDIN - Main Hall
Panel is made up of chairs of MEDIN, Asia-Pacific representatives and Americas Working Group, as well as NATO and APAN
Info facilitator Working Group - Session 2 of 3 - Room Two
Possible GDIN Services
Communities Working Group - Room Three
MEDIN - Session 2 of 2- Room Four
3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00-5:30pm Pilot Projects - Main Hall
- FIRE (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle First Response Experiment)
- Peace Wing
- Process of Developing GDIN Pilot Projects and role for Industry and Academia
- Australian Disaster Information Network Pilot Project
4:00-6:00pm
Poster Session
6:00pm Executive Committee Meeting
8:00pm Cocktail
9:00pm Gala Dinner
June 21, 2001, Friday Day Three — Last Day
Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
9:00-10:00 Senior Level Panel on Natural Disasters - Main Hall
led by OECD, EC, UN ISDR and European Space Agency
9:30-11:00 Work Shop on Preparedness - Main Hall
- ITHACA (Italy Hazard from Capable faulting) - A database of active capable faults of the Italian onshore territory, ANPA
- Landslides National Monitoring Network, and risk assessment n Italy, SGN — ENEA
- World Congress on Disasters, Walter Hays — ASCE
GIS/RS Working Group - Room Two
- Session Two of three - Focus on natural Disasters- CJ Cote
- Geo-databases and GIS support in the Realization of Geological Hazard Maps at Various Scales, SGN
- Creation of a GIS, ISPESL
- WG items
- Advanced remote sensing and GIS technologies application, ISPESL
Executive Committee Meeting - Room Three
Continuation of public meeting on general GDIN issues
ADRC Study on Disaster Inventory, Disaster thesaurus - Room Four
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00pm Workshop on Seismic Activities - Main Hall
- Monitoring volcanic activity, ISPESL, NIGV- Modena Univ.
- Methodologies of analysis aimed to the safety of production activities in areas subject to natural hazards, ISPESL, "La Sapienza" Univ.
- Italian strong motion accelerometric records: seismic input, ENEA
- Earthquake hazard prevention: innovating technologies, ISPESL, "La Sapienza" Univ
Industry Working Group - Room Two
Role of industry and Needs in Disaster Information management
Disaster Web Sites - Room Three
- Relief Web
- IRIN
MEDIN Working Group - Session 3 - Room Four
- Seismic hazards in the Mediterranian. NIGV
- How GDIN can help in the Southern Mediterranian, University of Algiers (USTHB)
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-2:30pm Key Note Speech - Main Hall
Information Problems in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Senior Expert
2:30-4:30pm Integrated use of Information Technologies (Main Hall)
- New Technologies for Risk management, ASI
- Proposed GDIN Info Facilitator Service
- Integration of Technologies for Early Intervention, ASI
- Challenges for Humanitarian Information Sharing - Lee Schwartz, US Department of State
GIS Working Group
- Session 3 of 3 — Dr. Bouchardy - Room Two
- Use of GIS/RS in humanitarian emergencies, ASI
- Political and Legal Issues restricting GIS/RS Information Sharing
Natural Disaster Early intervention - Room Three
- Strategic planning in civil protection and emergency management, ISPESL, ICPA
- SIGE ON LINE - Info-System Dedicated to the Management of an Emergency in Case of a Major Seismic Event, SSN
- Civil infrastructure protection and hydrogeological risk, CNR-ASI-ANPA-ENEA, FEMA-CUNY-PUNY
Emergency Telecommunications
— Hans Zimmerman - Room Four
- Status of Tampere Convention
- New advances in telecommunications
- Use of UAV’s in disaster telecommunications
4:30-5:00pm Break
5:00-6:30pm Plenary Executive Committee Meeting - Main Hall
- Reports by Working Group chairs
- Report on Conference
- Votes on Amended Papers
- Elect Officers
- Vote on Next Conference Site
6:30pm Closing Presentation by Government of Italy
Legend
ASI Italian Space Agency
ANPA National Agency Environment Protection
CNR National Council of Research
CUNY City University of New York
EMA Emergency Management Australia
ENEA Italian Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment
FEMA United States Federal Emergency Management Agency
ICPA Italian Civil Protection Agency
ISS Italian National Institute of Health
IRMN National Institute for the Mountain Research
ISPESL Italian Higher Institute for Prevention and Safety at Work
NIGV National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology
PULY Polytechnic University of New York
SSC Stazione Sperimentale per i Combustibili
SGN Italian Geological Survey
SSN Italian Seismic Survey
