Helpful Organizations

• The “Helpful Environment” involves the creation and use of task-centric virtual organisations involving people, government and non-governmental organisations, automated systems, grid and web services working alongside intelligent robotic, vehicle, building and environmental systems to respond to very dynamic events on scales from local to global.

Examples of current “Helpful Organizations” are:

• ISCRAM – http://iscram.org• IAEM – http://www.iaem.com • MPAT – http://www1.apan-info.net/mpat • SAHANA – http://www.sahana.lk

http://iscram.org

ISCRAM Events:

• International Conferenceannual conference for scientists and practitioners

Seattle, WA, May 2-5, 2010

• ISCRAM China Conference

•Summer School

ISCRAM Community:

• on the web

• on Facebook, etc.

• mailing list

iscram.org

facebook.com/group.php?gid=6961240193

www.iaem.com

The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), which has members in 58 countries, is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the goals of saving lives and protecting properties during emergencies and disasters.

Our Vision IAEM shall be recognized as a premier international organization of emergency management professionals.

Our MissionThe mission of IAEM is to serve its members by providing information, networking and professional opportunities, and to advance the emergency management profession.

IAEM CouncilsIAEM-Asia, IAEM-Canada, IAEM-Europa, IAEM-International, IAEM-Oceania, IAEM-Students, IAEM-USA.

What is emergency management (EM)?Emergency management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters.

Mission of EMEmergency management protects communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters.

Vision of EMEmergency management seeks to promote safer, less vulnerable communities with the capacity to cope with hazards and disasters.

Principles of EMEmergency management must be: comprehensive, progressive, risk-driven, integrated, collaborative, coordinated, flexible and professional.

MPAT – Multinational Planning Augmentation Team

www1.apan-info.net/mpat

What is MPAT?

A cadre of military planners ...• From nations with Asia-Pacific interests

• Capable of rapidly augmenting a multinational force (MNF) headquarters (HQ)

• Established to plan and execute coalition operations

• In response to military operations other than war (MOOTW) / small scale contingencies (SSC)

Objectives & Methods• Improve Speed of Multinational Crisis Response

• Improve Multinational Force Interoperability

• Increase CTF Mission Effectiveness

• Unity of Effort

A Multinational Program• Maintains a cadre of MNF planners:

• skilled in common crisis action planning procedures; available to rapidly augment a CTF HQ during a crisis; Develops habitual relationships among MPAT cadre.

• Meets periodically to: share information & develop CTF HQ procedures (MNF SOP); practice CTF HQ activation, formation, & planning processes; Includes interested nations, International Organizations (IOs), Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), & United Nations (UN) agencies.

www.sahana.lk

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

Sahana is an integrated set of pluggable, web based disaster management applications that provide solutions to large-scale humanitarian problems in the aftermath of a disaster. Our aspirations are as follows:

– Primary: Help alleviate human suffering and help save lives through the efficient use of IT during a disaster

– Bring together a diverse set of actors from Government, Emergency Management, NGOs, INGOs, spontaneous volunteers and victims themselves in responding effectively to a disaster

– Empower the victims, responders, volunteer to better enable them to help themselves and others

– Protect victim data and reduce the opportunity for data abuse– Provide a Free and Open Source solution end-to-end available to

everyone

Successful deployments:– Tsunami - Sri Lanka 2005 - Officially deployed in the CNO for the

Government of Sri Lanka– AsianQuake - Pakistan 2005 - Officially deployed within with NADRA for

the Government of Pakistan– Southern Leyte Mudslide Disaster - Philippines 2006 - Officially deployed

with the NDCC and ODC for the Government of Philippines– Sarvodaya - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed for Sri Lanka's largest NGO– Terre des Hommes - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed with new Child

Protection Module– Yogjarkata Earthquake - Indonesia 2006 - Deployed by ACS, urRemote

and Indonesian whitewater association and Indonesian Rescue Source– New York City - 2007-08 – Pre-deployed in support of the City of New

York’s Coastal Storm Plan– Peru Ica Earthquake - 2007 - Deployed for the Government of Peru– Chendu - Shizuan Province Earthquake 2008 - Deployed by Chendgu

Police