Presenters:
Chidinma Iheanetu, Iveta Zvercova, Felix Kwabena Donkor, Martin Krause and Roman Tandlich – THE CITIZEN SCIENCE APPROACH AS POTENTIAL MODEL FOR AN ETHICAL AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BEYOND (Rhodes University, South Africa; Technical University of Liberec, Czechia; University of South Africa, South Africa)
Amelie Grangeat and Alessandro Lazari – CITIZEN’S RESILIENCE AND PUBLIC WARNING SYSTEMS (F24 France, France; F24 AG, Italy)
Michel Bour and Damien Ballereau – BOOSTING CITIZENS’ AWARENESS WITH THE SUPPORT OF FIRE AND RESCUE PRACTITIONERS TO ACCELERATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SENDAI FRAMEWORK (SAFE Cluster, France)
Okay we have 11:45 and we have start the second part of today and we have here Roman tan uh who is the second guy who deserves congratulation for he was uh yesterday elected as a regional director for Africa in teams so congratulations ran and to tell something think about
Roman he has been working in the field of emergency and disaster management since the year uh 2001 11 sorry with background in biotechnology Dr Tan got involved in the development of lowcost and decentralized sanitation Technologies during the roll out of one such technology policy and technical skills shortages at local
Government level this resulted in uh the shift of focus Fus to research towards disaster management approaches towards shift action to address Water Sanitation and hygiene challenges in developing countries this has led to the development of new teaching and research tools to deal with public health disaster risk reduction and
Development Roman is originally from Slovakia and where where he he completed his educ ation up to Master’s level this occur in 1998 and his background was originally in biot technology he then continued on to complete his PhD in pharmaceutical Sciences at North Dakota State University of in Fargo USA after two postdoctoral fellowships
Roman joined the faculty of Pharmacy of FRS University in South Africa in 2008 he has been with the same department since then and has recently been promoted there to the rank of associated Professor congratulations he has expertise in public health water and sanitation and disaster ethics so Roman the floor is
Yours all right thank you um for the kind introduction and thank you very much for the opportunity to present um I will try to present a little bit of a introduction to some of the work that we have been doing um and that this is actually a um theoretical paper that
Came out of the long-term engagement that I’ve had in working in data collection involving communities in South Africa specifically in the Eastern cap province of South Africa where I’m based and um I would like to also acknowledge my co-authors because this has been quite a um the paper took about
Two and a half years to get together and the all the collaborators that you see as co-authors um I would like to extend my thanks for their contribution to the work so let’s get started let’s go back to the current challenge that we all face which is coid 19 and everyone is
Especially in the um pretty much all across the world we are all trying to ask ourselves both as um disaster Emergency Management practitioners but also as individuals to say why this again why another lockdown and why dis ion to the way that we got used to the
Day before many times um and especially in the early stages of the pandemic there was a lot of theories where the virus actually originated um was it a deliberate action was it man-made was it natural was it a combination and such as being a n or complex
Disaster um and if we are going to um Define it as a disaster who should have the authority to do so is it a disaster is it only an emergency and a temporary state of uh um um a departure from normality that we will recover from relatively quickly and
If so who is to Def Define a disaster and tell us that coid 19 actually is one so do we have an authority like that is the fact that the who has declared coid 19 a pandemic enough or is there another way that we could look at this so
Um I’m not trying to be political here um or try to uh push any agendas but the truth of the matter is that of in both the political realm the public health realm there have been various uh ways to track or suggest the origins of the coid 19 pandemic or more specifically the
SARS CO2 virus that is the causative agents of this infectious disease so there have been lab spillover theories uh people have also said based on some data that there was a natural origin where it was originally an animal virus and between passing from an animal Reservoir which used to be oh it is
Indicated that it is a horseshoe bed through an intermediate host it then jumped the uh barrier to humans however uh the most comprehensive model that I could find has recently uh indicated it was a paper that is now appeared in November 2021 by frutos where it says that the virus has actually circulated
In the environment for quite some time and that there was no direct evidence of any intermediate Host this was only based on analysis of genetic material and the potential comparison between two completely unrelated data sets further to this there was evidence that lack of positive test was done um or detected in
The Personnel or samples taken from the Personnel from the Wuhan Institute of biology which was suspected to have been a source of the LA spova um as one of the working theories what it seems like now is that SARS cov2 is rather um a an evolutionary jump from a predecessor
Virus which is circulated between the animal and human populations for some time and ultimately the virus was in a way just looking for the receptor it happened to find it and when the mutations were sufficient it jumped to humans so what it looks like right now
It is that it was actually of natural origin and it is very likely that humans got exposed to it based on encroaching on new spaces and uh through a process called anthropization which means that we have gotten into areas that were previously wild or that humans have not
Interacted with or thus we have come into contact with a virus that was previously isolated from any human interaction does the origin actually matter um in a way it does and in a way it doesn’t and I will try to now unpack that a little bit further so it does
Matter because the uh total economic loss so far has been estimated back in 2020 by Cutler and Summers to be about $16 trillion this is a total impact of the shutdowns uh of businesses lockdowns worldwide and the overall disruption on the functionality of the globalized
World in the 21st century um in a more controversial um calculations have been done to indicate that up to $4.3 trillion dollar um could be uh linked to premature deaths from coid 19 and about $2.5 trillion dollars are likely to be the cost of treating the resulting comorbidities such as um long-term
Changes to the physiology of humanity for example long coid changes to taste perceptions outcomes that we are currently still only discovering a day-to-day basis and finally there was about $1.6 trillion dollar which is estimated to be the impact on the mental health of humanity so it is fair to say
That all of humanity has been affected and we continuously on a daily basis through scientific discoveries but also through personal stories which are shared through social media and other platforms continue to discover new and new outcomes of what coid 19 causes therefore we can say that um we need to
Ask ourselves the question who holds the knowledge and the authority about what is correct knowledge and what is incorrect knowledge in the context of the unfolding impacts of coid 19 and also who should have the uh which knowledge should be primary to the solution to the uh to the solution
Of all the problems that the pandemic continues to cause so in a way um one of my uh Master students has been working on this and we have recently completed two manuscripts um where we try to look at the parallel existences of the human humanity and the virus and then try to
See if there are implications for disaster risk reduction and Emergency Management so what this figure in in U uh illustrates is the fact that the virus and Humanity have basically coexisted what it looks like for quite some time not the virus in the form of SARS CO2 but the predecessor viruses and
Ultimately currently SARS cov2 and Humanity coexist because one survival of one is dependent on the other and the virus has negatively imp impacted and continues to impact human life once the virus enters a whole cell which is which means infection uh takes place there must be the ac2 receptor which means
There must be structural compatibility between the Varan and the host cell and then the virus uses the human cells to reproduce and to spread now this model is based on the uh virus cell life cycle model of um a virus in general so we’re not trying to say that this is
Specifically how the virus spreads what it does say or tries to illustrate is that humanity and the virus are currently interconnected in a way how they impact each other how they depend on each other and how they negatively impact uh how the virus has negatively impacted the existence of humanity at
The same time what it does say is that once a human being is infected and its whole cells start producing the virus uh it can it is necessary for the humans to adjust their living um lifestyle to maintain a state where they can live with the virus but at the same time
Continue functioning and the society continues to go on now in a way what uh and a slightly more abstract level we can say that the coid 19 case clearly demonstrates what we have called a balance between two types of reality which currently impact how the disaster is unfolding the one is the the
Fundamental reality which are laws of nature and the way that the nature functions for example this can be demonstrated by the evolution of the virus to the state where it could have taken the its genetic information evolved and ultimately infected the humans but the evolution itself is independent of human reality the
Crisscrossing between the virus and the humanity actually took place when humans encroached in territory that was previously unoccupied by them and this has then resulted in the virus jumping the barrier to humanity and it is affecting everyday life which we have called situational reality which means that every human being and the factors
Of how they go about their daily business in in other words how the emergency and disaster of coid 19 impacts them is determined by the virus and by the crisscrossing of the results of the evolution and the everyday life of fundamental and situational reality in this realm citizen science becomes
Important why is it because citizen science is a field that has been around for a long time simply put lay persons uh people that are not trained scientists whether these are biomedical scientists or people that are working in cyber security people that are working in understanding how complex phenomena
Such as systems and disasters work uh interaction takes place between lay persons who are not trained in a specific field for example disaster risk reduction but these lay persons are directly impacted or involved in collecting data which can then be used to assess the impacts and um uh the
Space in which a disaster unfolds now Citizen science can does be defined as a data collection and execution of various types of activities which are scientific in nature and the data produced can also be used for to draw scientific conclusions about a hypothesis or a problem trying to be solved for example
The um socioeconomic impact of coid 19 but the col data collection is done by non-scientists or members of the general public now impacts of this uh citizen science can be produced I will show a few examples on the next couple slides But ultimately what does this do citizen
Science provides a link in which an everyday experience of a human being that is not necessarily uh scientific in nature become scientific due to the fact that they are involved in data collection uh and the data is then used to solve a scientific problem so an example of
Citizen science activity can be seen in the context of coid 19 and other areas and this is from the Baseline of where I come from this is provision of drinking water um in areas that are either not reticulated with piped water or where uh treatment needs to take place after the
Tab has been open this is a device which is called a Tippy tab or it’s an example of a Tipp water is placed inside here and there is a mechanism generally a uh set of either pulley or uh ropes which are used to tip the bucket over and then soap can be
Provided in the vicinity and outside for example a health public health facility this can be used to uh maintain personal hygiene in the context of coid on the other hand one of the longest running citizen science data collections has been uh uh the so-called big dip which
Takes place in North America and it is uh uh focused on collecting data on the clarity or turbidity of Water Resources by dipping a dis uh into a water water body and measuring the depth at which the dis disappears and this can then be used as a measure of pollution um and
Problems with turbidity which can then be used to indicate where cleanup or other sources of pollution might need to be looked into citizens science in the context of coid 19 from where I and my co-authors stand can then be used as a mechanism to look at the data collection
Uh of the impacts of the disaster on all of humanity because all of humanity has a vested interest in the survival whether this is at the level of an individual or the level of all of humanity and thus any action that we take in the context of our daily lives
We posit or we look at as being produced as data that can be used to understand how the disaster impacts uh local Regional and Global level and how this can then be used to tweak interventions to minimize the impact or solve outbreaks can be used and uh can be made
A little bit more targeted at the same and taking into account in real time data that provides uh uh complete or holistic uh picture about impact on um individual humans what is the th uh our um link between disaster management and citizen science simply put is this anytime that anyone produces data we
Heard a lot about social media monitoring yesterday we heard a lot about brilliant work that is being done by other presenters about using data in real time to predict certain events for example um acts of uh maybe uh public violence uh but what it also is important to consider is that during the
Coid 19 seen people have posted a lot of information on social media from various locations around the world and they have demonstrated and documented their experiences throughout lockdowns throughout loss of jobs mental health problems separations from family which means that they have tell their qualit many times qualitative stories that
Document how the situational reality of Co 19 has actually uh unfolded taking this knowledge into account and using it as a source of data which we can see uh to transpire in real time can provide a new new way to look at how the impacts of disasters are taking place in real time
And at the same time it can uh it must be seen as the fact that all of humanity has a vested interest in overcoming the impacts of coid 19 either learning to live with the disease and survive or try to find ways to prevent further outbreaks becoming pandemics in the near
Future in order to do this the knowledge that every human produces carries value and thus should be considered as valuable source of information in Al line with the um creation of knowledge being Democratic and in the lines of the principles of epistemic Justice this Justice must be struck between disaster
Risk Managers emergency managers government officials and public that they serve in this case we can say that social media post as this discussed eloquently and really brilliantly by speakers newspaper articles in a slightly different context uh personal stories must be seen as new type of data
And in a way as sources of Citizen science information it is true that all the data analysis tools that we have seen so far provide a way to measure the validity and scrutinize the data in a way that can provide the most useful use of this data and extracting information
That can be used for localized regionalized or Global decision making one way to look at it for example today would be the Omicron variant which has recently occurred South African scientists have um alerted the world to its existence and uh later on um uh two things happen number one travel
Restrictions were placed on South Africa uh as a preventative measure but at the same time while these were in place it was discovered that prior to the announcement of the Omicron by South African scientists the existence of Omicron they have already been positive samples that were tested later on from I
Believe the Netherlands which means that uh balance must be struck in the context of um the data and how it is interpreted and all of humanity must start looking at taking Collective decisions along the lines of who produced the data how it is used and who owns the outcomes and for
That I have my references I would like to thank you for the opportunity to present and I would be happy to take any questions thank you thank you Roman to you and the whole team it feel very interesting actual presentation so let’s look for some questions I would have a
Question uh I would like to ask you about uh if the motivation just by explanation of the situation is enough or if uh you are using in those projects in other kind of motivation of citizens to measure anything thank you very much so um I apologize if the if the the
Presentation was a little too abstract and too philosophical but um the point is that um ultimately it one thing has emerged from uh coid 19 quite um importantly and that is that there is an imbalance in power relationships across the globe and also at local level when
It comes to access to resources such as vaccines the way that the manufacturing and distribution is structured and what is currently important is not the re uh it is important to understand the reasons of how we got here but at the same time it is clear from coid 19 that
A lot of new opportunities have been created and if we um allow for the majority of or as many voices to be heard when decisions about the future and postco world are taken and the more voices are heard aka the more um citizens are involved in creating um or
Providing data that can sh help shape the decisions about the future the more I think we will find a way to uh counter any future pandemics and also provide solutions to for example another big problem which Kyle mentioned earlier and that is um for example migrations because those are on the African
Continent especially in South Africa is a big problem with this due to um for example country like Zimbabwe which is next door and has had many economic and other challenges we’ve uh there’s been a major influx of refugees so I think um that would be the the answer thank you
Okay thank you so I can see no other question so thank you once more for your presentation Roman will be presenting one more uh paper this afternoon uh he is working with the team which is in the program so it’s it’s very nice work what
They are doing so so uh now I would like to uh call for am Granja uh she is uh she will be presenting the paper citizens resilience and public Warning Systems uh if to to present Ami uh Dr am Granja is particularly responsible for the Belgian national warning system she
Advises the various European governments on the implementation of such national projects she regularly shares her experience in the field of critical infrastructure protection and International Conference and had uh also sorry several International scientific Publications on resilience crisis management and vulnerability analysis since since 2016 Dr Amer grad has been working on
Her PhD on the topic of vulnerability resilience and card Effect between technical networks contributions of systemic and special modeling to crisis planning and management for the benefit of network operators and civil security as part of this work she has worked on the application of these concepts for the Paris fire break
Brigade she has also participated in Three French research projects and three European fp7 projects dealing with critical structure resilience crisis management or public Warning Systems for her research she received the cypret young critic award 2016 so congratulation to that and please it’s the floor is yours so thank you for this
Introduction um I’m Dr am gja as you said I’m I’m specially working on everything which is related to public warning system at different uh countries level so I would like to share a little bit about this practition talk and how public warning system can improve citizens resilience so first maybe a little bit
Of context um we all know more and more disaster disasters are really um becoming the new the new normal we have a lot of increase of DRS of storms a lot of tropical syclones and this more and more and this is partially linked to climate change but we have also a lot of
Different types of incidents like cyber incidents which has become uh one of the most uh the biggest risk for every for every companies actually but also for Citizens and we have of course these human threats uh with a lot of terrorist attacks and the war situations so what
We can see is that of course all these disaster are very very different but they all have in command that they threats the life of people and it’s one of the United National Nations sustainable development goals to help diminish the number of death uh and the number of people affected by uh these
Disasters so the question is how do we achieve this goal so first of all it needs a holistic approach of the of the crisis management because of course every crisis are different and the common points are all so how do you protect the citizen how you help these
Citizens to be resilient and it’s um partially links to the the existence of a public warning system so uh first of all I’ve said we need an nistic approach uh before during and after a crisis event public warning system is really just one piece of the crisis management that we should uh have
For in front of all these different disaster the first step is of course everything which is risk monitoring we had just before a talk about the coid where you have uh citizens but also scientists who monitor um the different variants and new variants of the coid this is part of the
Risk monitoring this is also part of the prevention and you have also a very important part which is planning planning will help you to save uh citizens life and it’s also a very important part uh to integrate within your strategy of the population elting training and practicing that’s no
Big news but it’s all necessary steps to have done before the incidents if you want to be preper and to achieve this citizens uh resilience then of course you have an incident whatever it is that’s the holistic approach and then here it’s very important to alert and notify every citizens about the the
Situation what you are going to do the different actions and taken the the actions to be taken for being uh for protecting yourself and of course it’s the lifeline of the citizen so an indication of everything which is going evoluate and then of course saying a no clear message saying the situation is
Over then you have the crisis management itself and of course at the end the recovery part so here as a practitioner talk um I’m going to speak only about public warning system but it’s very important to understand that it’s just one piece of the citizens resilient break which is the holistic approach of
A crisis here a little bit of context first um you may have noticed it in French uh in Fr in Europe we have a European electronic communication code which says that every member states must have a public warning system which go through the mobile network operator by
June 2022 so it’s very short uh these days a lot of um M states sories have already started the work on public warning system some others need still to do it um so I would like just to give a little bit of context what is really important in public warning system and
Written within this electronic uh communication code is the fact that these citizens for being effective in alert implies that the C cens can receive it without preer subscription it’s really really important because we have seen in the past situations like applications like subscription websites for broadcasting alerts the problem is
That people feel safe before they are heated by an event so if you don’t um if you rely your public warning system only on alerting channel which needs a preer subscription then you lack of efficacity and one key point of this article 110 is the ne the the necessary efficiency of
Your public warning system for building this citizens resilience so concretely what does it mean before June 20122 every crisis manager in the Europe uh in the Europe member states must be able to want every handset located in an area without pre subscription in terms of practice because it’s a practitioner to
It implies to deploy location based SMS and aell and or the cell broadcast technology so I would like to introduce those two uh technology for you cell broadcast and uh location bsms the two main difference between those technology is the fact that c broadcast is a one to
N technology while SMS is a one to one technology I explain myself cell broadcast will be a radio uh wave uh broadcasted around the antenna so everyone around will receive it while uh the onetoone technology of the location based SMS is a send SMS meaning you must
Know to who you are going to send um the SMS so cell broadcast I said that it was a a radio wave um it mean it’s a unidirectional communication it means that you are totally blind in terms of Crisis management and how many people you have in the field however you know
That you have a broadcasted a wave of L um and that these people every people within this wave have received it it’s really interesting because it’s not uh it’s not exposed to the risk of network congestion which is a main case within the alert uh situation because in
Crisis management you can have some Network congestions however as I said you are totally blind on how many people needs for instance to evacuate while location based SMS it’s a one toone transmission it’s a classical SMS just it sent to every inset located within the area of danger meaning it’s a
Classical SMS you have no worry about the device compatibility however and and it’s B directional which means that you can send back message I need help um however it’s not suitable when you’re your network is of course congested why I talk about those two they are totally complementary mean in
Cell broadcast when you meet must uh inform a lot of people like millions of people about the war it will be probably the most suable alerting Channel however when you receive the S broadcast uh your phone rings and make a lot of noise and you can’t change it while while and this
Broadcast technology is just not shoting when you have a noage situation because if you have an noage situation it means that everyone who is hidden or hiding from a terrorist for instance will be found by this terrorist because your um mobile network will rain so for instance
A broadcast really useful but never in case of an noage situation while location Bas SMS of course suitable for a terrorist attack must pre will be better probably in a local crisis because everyone will receive it and you are more used to an SMS and you can
Handle uh the answers as well so it’s two um it’s two different technology and yes forgot I forgot to say location based SMS because it’s a onetoone technology as a crisis manager you can have the confirmation of perception of every um alert which is broadcasted which means that you are legally covered
You can say that these people have well received an alert and this is really important uh for your own safety so you have two technology U which must be um implemented by June 22 uh by every member states of the um Europe of the by every European member
State sorry of course that’s just one deadline and the citizens resilience don’t stop at June 2022 with these two technologies we we have above uh the question of the satellites and the diffusion of broadcast of uh this elect water population via satellite you know that um the Europe has implemented and
Has developed a constellation of satellites which are called at Galileo and by a European directive all smartphones must be compatible with the GPS signal of Galileo in 2022 in 2020 sorry the important point is that the European commission has anticipated to save some few bites of this signal of
This SC Leo sels for broadcasting the it’s not yet made meaning prototypes are ongoing for defining uh how to use it because it’s a critical infrastructure and as you know cyber incidents are very um critical especially on critical infrastructure so it’s very sensitive it’s a very sensitive project however
It’s important to say that in 2023 we should have operational infrastructure for being able to broadcast um public warning via satellite which is super interesting especially on the case of crossborder emergencies because you know that flood or taxic clouds doesn’t stop at the border so this satellite will be
Extremely useful for this kind of Crisis just one point should say as a crisis manager um while location based SMS and cell broadcast you could choose the text you want to warn the people here with satellite it won’t be possible why so because those few bites of within the
Galileo signal um are not long enough for uh un boarding a text so meaning it’s a predin text and these few bites will un board only um short short um code um that the phone will in inter prate as an alerting signal it’s a small it’s an important point for prices
Manager it means that it’s not free text so you can send every information you want within those Galileo signal it’s one limitation of the Galileo um satellite nevertheless those three technology are really important for um the citizens residents because it broadcast it can broadcast the alerts uh whenever you want without PR
Subscriptions uh whenever you are in danger so here we have talk about mobile network operators technology so broadcast location BMS but also um GPS signal the common points um because it’s a practitioner talk so how do you trigger all those key medas for saving life of people it’s all the time via
What we call the commoning protocol so this commoning protocol is really an important technical tool for the resilience of the citizens I’m going to explain what is the common adapting protocol just after but just so that you understand uh this common alerting protocol connects every alerting system
You can already have with the different operators uh or um I would call Aller broadcasters that you have on the right of this of this train so a common lating protocol what is this it’s General format for exing exchanging all aard emergency alerts and public warning over all kind of networks
So first uh important point it’s an open standard who can find it there’s a reference on the on this um uh on this slide and it’s really a a protocol to be um advertised all around the world because it can help a lot towards the interoperability of the alerts between
The different countries but also between the different system so it’s a common acting protocol created in 2001 so quite old actually and it’s used all over the world um especially with meteorological agencies all over the world but it’s not yet used within every alerting channels so if you
Are if you have if we have decision makers within these rooms um please push this common alerting protocol to be used by a lot of different alerting channels it could it will help um the those crisis manager to broadcast the alls over a lot of different networks so one important part this
Common Ting protocol which is an international standard is good but it’s like the grammar of the alerts it’s good but it doesn’t Define a language so every country has its own capap version so we have a lot um I’ve participated to a project a research project to compare
Different C profiles and so here is just a piece of uh results here on this capap what you need to know is that a cap is made of several blocks four blocks the blocks concerning the alerts the blocks concerning the information of the alerts the blocks of the resources linked to
This alerts it will be the audio file for instance and the area of description of danger so if I go further on this capap um what is really important in every gramar it says that it’s mandatory to have the language the event category the the level of urgency severity certainty
That you have within this aler and also the title The invent description and the instruction what you need to do you have also everything which is related to the area so this commoning protocol will help you to uh structure theer it’s really the grammar of the alet however
Here we are talking to about a language which is a discussion between a machine and another an alerting software and mobile network operators or GPS or public boards or applications it contains everything you need to know about theet however it’s certainly not like that that you are going to
Communicate to the public for instance in terms of back best practice sorry we know that when we need to communicate to the public an alerting system it’s better to structur it for instance like we know so explaining the fact without interpretation we do so what are the
Actions ongoing we care so we give you advice as our instructions to the population and we show that The Authority has well um managing the situation and we will be back meaning when will the next communication so what can you see here we know that commoning
Protocol is the grammar of the allet but it doesn’t Define you how you want to uh structur rate and make this message clear toward the population so it’s a very good tool for uh enabling this automatic broadcast of the alert toward different very interesting media however
At the end you must know how to structur the based on what is within the cap but you must still be a human talking to human meaning using words so the message content will be different than just the capap so this is why we have um the cap
Is a key point of the residence toolkit but the user interface on top of this cap so meaning the the user interface of the alerting software we’ll need to add an additional layer of business logic who will help the user meaning the crisis manager to write based on the CIP
Fields an alert message who must be clear and understandable by the citizens who will receive it so that’s an additional layer in terms of practice and how to build this residence it’s a practition of talk so I’m going to explain you um a little bit about a practic um um an official
Situation sorry but just before to say we have talked about uh location Bed sem broadcast satellite the capap getaway which is towards the application but you must still understand the importance of classical um classical channels which are not capap for the moment which will be like for instance sirant it’s really
Important when you are uh speaking about crisis that you use multi- Channel approach and not only one of the three um Medias that we have talked just before so practial talk um junly fluts 20201 uh within Belgium so it’s what is really important here is that it’s a
Crossborder events meaning it was really at the German border you have one important things on Belgium you have a public warning system on Germany not or not without preo subscription which is a key information here so um important points uh we had um a meteorological depression black on
Belgium and Germany with an extreme PR precipitation during 48 Hours above the century level we had it for instance in Belgium um 37 casualties so it was we had even a day of national morning it it gives you how uh hard it for for Belgium
People and you must know that in Le so it’s one of the main um cities of Belgium there were a kind of dam Upstream which were under construction and couldn’t regulate correctly the flow of the river which was already at the centy level with a high huge of risk Dam
Brecks winning a kind of tsunami towards Le so we needed to evacuate uh lege um but of course this Century flood has not impacted bra not only Le but also the other um region like and so on and so forth so it’s really important here to say that
Public warning system has saved life because the same event on the the Germany border has cost more than 100 lives so it’s really why you can say public warning system uh actually save lives so important Point as well we talk about public warning but it’s also public information meaning in this case
We have sent 60 alerts uh over 30 uh seven municipalities but we have also sent 40 information campaigns meaning please be prepared please prepare to evacuate what is the current situation and then at the end you can come back it’s all safe um we have talked so that was for
Flood but just an open discussion on coid uh as well we have talked about location based semester broadcast satellite this has very intrusive channel so please don’t sh us it for a longtime crisis like Co which is um the difference between I would say classical uh channels like Mals like radio or
Information website versus um those intrusive channels because here this coid crisis and it has been said just before by our um uh by my colleague um the crisis seems to be the new normal meaning it’s no more need of a warning system but I’m opening the fields to an
Information system less intrusive but to uh but as well very important so that’s the conclusion um the public warning system is really the lifeline of the citizens during Rising for helping them building their resilience uh please don’t use only one channel when you are in crisis because you must cover all
Kind of targeted citizens and every media has their different advantages commoning protocol is really a protocol to encourage for a better interoperability between alerting channels but also between countries we have seen an example of crossborder um events but capap is well only a tool and um it must be adapted each time to
Authorities needs and especially crisis management process within each of the public one within each of the country thank you very much for your attention and I stay at your disposal for uh the potential questions than Boku and we we will look for some questions uh not no question so far so I
Would have maybe not question but comment um it was very informative presentation thank you for that really really very technically very well and uh I would I would like to stress and go back to the Germany floods you mentioned in your presentation because even if if we have such an excellent tools
Technical tools uh what appear there that people especially in Germany as I heard they didn’t believe even that they got a lot of information uh and in in time they didn’t believe and they they couldn’t estimate by themselves personally what might really happen so they went to the places where uh they
They they died they they so they didn’t obey the rules maybe they didn’t want didn’t know about the rules because uh it might be due to the uh if he would misuse uh you mentioned that not misuse these warning messages because people don’t believe them after that uh so this
Is one uh comment and second comment by be uh when I recall What U uh Roman uh talk about this big exercise with Co and and with this and he had this his presentation of the monitoring the I I believe that the uh location based SMS system might be used probably
For this local and citizen monitoring because it allows to to send some little data backwards to The Operators so probably it might be the another Direction how to involve people not only get the information that something is happening but also to uh to take to to give the information back from the very
Place that they are just now so there is what just comments and there is a question uh good presentation how does the alert system Encompass messages to disabled people deaf or blind yeah so a very good uh question thank you very much uh actually for that
We take them into account but you must subscribe before because we don’t know uh whether you are blind or de so it’s important that you uh subscri we have uh we propose each time a subscription website where you can say whether you have handic with whether you have
Handicapped and you also can declare your area of interest and it means that we can dedicate to you a special channel so meaning um if you’re if you’re blind we will send you more um voal message for instance but it means that you have subscription and also if you declare
Yourself as an handicapped person and as a Authority we know there’s a danger there that where you could have difficulties for instance to evacuate then we can adapt it um and send the adequate resources not only for the but also for the help of the evacuation okay thank you
And that’s it once more thank you a lot for your interesting presentation and we are at the last uh presentation until the lunch and uh we will have here Michelle bu and Damian Balo probably Michelle bu is coming and the they will present the boosting citizens awareness
With the support of fire and rescue practitioners to excel implementation of the Sendai framework something about uh Michelle uh he is manager of the European fire in Project former senior firefighter officer chief of the upper R fire and rescue service he is civil and geotechnical engineer as diploma of advanced studies in fluid
Mechanics from 200 11 to 19 was General Secretary of the C International Association Association of Fire and Rescue Services former responsible of crossborder cooperation with the German emergency services and the Swiss Emergency Services all under the Eggies of the Franco German Swiss upper conference so please it’s your floor good morning everybody my
Presentation so I will talk about uh boosting citizens awareness with the support of fire and rescue practitioners to accelerate implementation of a Sunday flame mode and my presentation is based on the outcome of the fire in Project as a reminder uh Sunday framework we have four priorities one understanding disaster risk two strengthening
Disaster risk governance to manage the disaster risk priority three is investing in disaster risk ediction for resilience and priority for enhancing disaster preparedness for Effective response and to build but better in recovery reabilitation and reconstruction the fire in Project the fire in Project fire and rest ination
Network and as I said uh the outcome of the presentation I I give you as a result of the work of five thematic working group I make this presentation uh after a short presentation of safe cluster which is the coordinator of this project the Consortium uh has 14 Partners you can
See spread all around Europe and safe cluster is a competitiveness cluster Exon provance working in aeronautic space security safety defense and environment sectors is also member of the network of European security cluster and collaborates in the research and development programs of the European commission the mission of a safe cluster
In this part of resilience and environment are to support the network in the development of Technologies for service for the security and safety of citizens and user in cities Federate and create links between different solution providers and end users what is the main objective of fireing the fire in main objective is to
Improve the national and European fire and rescue capability development process by foring innovation in this domain and promoting Innovative solution to recogize the needs fire in addresses the concern that capability driven research and innovation in is area need much stronger guidance from practitioners and better exploitation of the technology
Potentially available for the discipline and you can find and follow us on our internet web page firein point on Twitter LinkedIn and on YouTube firein has five thematic working groups search and rescue emergency service structure fire landscape fires natural Hazard CB r and Tre mind identified needs by the Consortium of
The project one improving awareness preparation and training of the population based on the observation that in the event of a major crisis the Civil protection response is some if the population is not prepared two common procedure interoperable tools for sharing information and common inter service in border training and further
Tools and procedures for information and data sharing with the population and field workers in real time during the crisis first identified need improving awareness preparation and training of the population Bas on the observation that in the event of a major crisis the Civil protection response s if the population is not
Better I make an over view of current and future common cap ility challenges identified in the project about the community involvement to develop public self protection and awareness train educate involve general population on risk awareness and self- protection in a basic and easy way train about knowledge of risk and appropriate
Behaviors so that they understand the implication of their own decisions differential subgroups of population depending on vulnerability accessibility impact potential provide tools to facilitate decision making for potential victims checklist to evaluate potential risk to their properties emergent kits proactively maintain the citizens continuously informed during all the duration of the
Emergency disseminate instruction to apply in case of risk in order to strengthens appropriate population reaction manage alarm system invest on communication through emergency it’s very important to Communication in an integrated way a home inside your community at work free time search a most active Communication channel to disseminate selected message
For the population dur emergency TV radio social network press conference we have the choice Community involve communities and case stakeholders as active actors in Risk Management involve communities into driving a change of Paradigm for society from victims to actors in the emergency from we authorities will protect you to you citizens should be
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Carefully studied and access of public to emergency plans involve Cas stakeholders interventions and towards an integrate culture of risk awareness and resilience building on and transforms the memory of historical catastrophe the problem is that people forget what happened before the arrive here on the earth educate children and
Young ones as actors on the emergency building risk awareness tolerance and resilience involve journalist and mass media perform training on means for Mass information social media smartphone short videos invest in credibility in the communication during the emergency build trust explaining in a transparent way what can happen explaining the final
Possible scenarios of the emergency negotiate the values with communities before the emergency negotiate with communities and stakeholders before the emergency on the scenario of resolution responders during emergencies make decision that can have a long-term impacts beyond the knowledge and expertise involve Society into negotiating the accepted risk in front
Of different alternative scenarios of resolution of the VY build on early alerts to make communities aware of risk encourage and self-action in the direction that FS the resolution of the emergencies a cultural change towards risk tolerance and resilience be aware of the price to pay when choosing certainty
Have priorities agreed work on the values to protect PR to emergencies the choice and the creation of certain scenarios can leave out some situation because in every choice there is also a renunciation so there is a place to pay when choosing something certain in uncertain events explain uncertainty and involve
Potential septics suspicious and disagreement a part of society may be opposed to losing a n to lose a land it is important to explain the uncertainty to society so that they can understand that there will be times and decision will be made on the basis of previously agreed and shared values and involve
Them in the scenarios and decision opening a dialogue on values and priorities whenever possible PRI to emergencies focus on the short windows of opportunity after emergencies after large disaster there’s a short window of opportunity to change policies and governance towards inte risk management and that’s important for
Our politician I will give some example the first is the Black Saturday wild fire in Australia 7 February 2009 in this days I have 179 people perished 400 people hospitalized 3,500 buildings D tribe including 2,000 houses so research after this black Saturday highlighted limited awareness and preparers for Bush fire risk a
Tendency for people to leave or evacuate at the last moment the inadequacy of preparedness and defensive actions in Fire’s burning under what are not considered catastrophic fire danger conditions the research also compiled evidence and example of Highly Effective repar and response that is a good information the paradig change for fire
Service from responding to fires with ever more resource to engaging the population and placing more responsibility in the hands preparedness and during crisis it is our change of paradigma two examples of involvement of citizens and W fire J addiction and fire prevention of fire wise and fire smart
Programs fire wise is in the USA it is NFPA program with sponsored by the United States Department of forest service and National Association of St Forest several action can citizen organize to not be exposed to wildfire and the communities can be more aware of the risk and less
Vable the firewise program landed in Europe a few years ago with a lot of potential to make a difference in continent that is densely populated and most of its population lives in wand uran interface and our colleagues from the PO coost Foundation are the partner of NFP Wildfire another program is fire smart
Canada fire smart Canada is a national initiative to help property owners and communities understand the way in which wild fire M structures and property located in and close to forested and wideland areas and the step individuals and communities can take to reduce theability of buildings and property to fire the fire smart
Program is implemented through seven disciplines to help neighborhoods address the treat of white fire education JY planning vegetation management legislation development intelligency cooperation and cross training second identified needed common procedure interoperable tools for sharing information and common inter service interb training crisis of cross border natur make it difficult to identify the
Current event authorities need to enable effective collection Collective action in the face of trans problems that no member State can address on the own and for that I make a feedback on the Health crisis induced by the coid 19 pandemic as soon as the coid uh 19 has started to sh the fire
And rescue service in Europe fire in has also become a focal point for practitioners to deposit and share best practice guidelines and Innovations in that perspective it has served as a shared and remote is B to improve the response capability face to a common challenge in the and behind
That is when you go on our web page and you have the first the first page and you can see Co practice and guidin from the and the fire rescue service and how you can share your best practice that is a list of the best practice and recommendation you can
Find we have the fire in newsletter and for the is not made a special edition from back practice and guidelines from the European fire rescue service guidelines recommendation in English only and online course in different languages we organized an specific event dedicated by practitioner for practitioners it was a just in time training
Provided to practitioners to enable the rapid acquisition specific kills or knowledge when the need arises it was organized with five panan networks fire in daret media no Fe and there were participated invited to participate in live webinars with fature top speakers from different backgrounds in order to provide firstand information experience
Gained from real disaster only for the present n not sopia is a network of partition of emergency medical system media is a mediterran in Black Sea security practitioners Network D at du River Region residance Action Network and Ino European network of c training centers European project all of
Them and we work together communication you had in June from this year from the commission to European Parliament of this cover this 19 pandemic three lesson learn for future health response the decisive role of the coordination in EU the resion of the you policy coordination system and the role on the
Global stage you have 10 lessons of the coid 19 for the public health policy you have lesson one faster detection and response depends on stronger Global surveillance and More in complete dat we have lesson two clear coordinated C ific advice facilitates policy decision and Public Communication Lesson Four
Emergency tools need to be ready faster and easier to activate five coordinated measure should become a reflex for Europe nine pandemic preparers and response is a global priority for Europe and this 10 a more coordinated and sophisticate approach to misinformation and dis information must be developed so third identified need
Tools and procedure and data sharing with the population and field workers in real time during the crises in this case I have specific Community awareness Rising information on risk like flash food di bries compulsory if a person buys a property or builds houses I take the example of a
Flash Ro this is an image for an event last year in the south of France the public should be engaged into player disaster awareness projects such as River cleanings and lien persons in case of disaster should be identified within the community information of the public with
Concrete risk broken down on the rare of affected households and companies required with advice how to mitigate risk training of all groups involved and hit by fres food in the same language and a simple way to read data and early warning here uh about early warning you have the directives of Europe European
Parliament from December 2018 establishing the European electronic communication code article 110 public warning system by June 21 in 2022 member states shall ensure we can read the public warning system we hope that for next year June 2020 you could have application and that he works this a
Public warning system you can read in in this article digital devices cisis management still uses few digital devices however they have a more precise reaction and rediction cost they make it possible to war the population before crisis but also to be fair enough to minimize FAL alarm which
Would gradually attack the confidence of the population this s is all the more important as any crisis involves reaction handicapped by due to the event and greater than normal needs but we have more and more project for the moment and the last example is the call uh which deadline was the 23rd of
November of this year about integrated theseis for extreme climate events from early warning system to long-term adaptation and resilience building so you see we uh in the next time we must have and we could have more of some project about digital devices another current project in France is a a project
Named the Puma X platform Universal multi Universal multi platform the need is to search and visualize all available information process the data for decision support visualize information in synthetic way mobilize the required resources and allert citizen in danger in a Ted way its goal is to create the M risk
Parable platform where data would be processed in real time to enable decision support example a municipal lifeguard plan will be coupled with 3D mapping of the territory in order to improve the deployment of relief efforts and everything will be accessible online from a secret public Cloud so you have to feed and the
Platform and after you have a response in dyamic plans craphy remote alerts there the Vance about weather meteorologic information another example is a private Society uh predict is a private company from France with a team of expert expertise inic andology meteorology satellit imagery and z and assist the risk manager before during
After risk phenomena they help municipalities to manage risk they have uh 24 per day 7 day week continuous homological monitoring and I have designed a decision support system my predict which is an application helping citizens to adapt the right attitude and with this application you can access
Thees of the risk in the community and preventive instuctions adapted to the extent of the phenomen concerning the you so thank you for staying thank you very much for your informative presentation it was a lot of information interesting uh activities around I just I other there some questions not
Yet I ask you this fire in Project is it ongoing project uh which which is just activity or is it project which will end some time the project is ending in uh uh next year ending October 2022 end of October okay so then this dissemination might be very
Interesting uh and for for this project because there is lot of very wi advices which is coming out of it okay some I will look for some question no okay thank you once more much thank everybody from the uh from uh this uh part of our
Conference and I’ll wish you uh having a nice lunch and after lunch we will meet again and 1:00 uh with uh next presentation thank you have a good lunch