Appendix B
New Technological Thrusts
Serious thought is, necessary for disaster management
on some of the important items like new technological thrust areas
as these would provide the mean through which we establish a sense
of community, maintain personal relationships, conduct our business
and build all the important links. Some of these technologies may
include the following:
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Sensor endowed rescue.
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Use of Robotics for rescue.
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Internet enabled disaster management.
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Area of Artificial Intelligence
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Network-not only for communications, monitoring,
sensing, tracking and information passage but to ensure economy
of effort and optimization of workforce and resources for damage
control and rescuing.
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Technologies-Integrated and available at short
notice including technology for calamity prediction.
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Supercomputing.
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Emergency response system using sensors and satellite
navigation system, as most critical component of any successful
rescue operation is time and knowing the precise location of an
emergency or crisis.
Discussion and views of IETE will be quite relevant and important
on technological thrust required rather than on pure management.
IETE could involve itself for:
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Liasion and co-ordination of R&D in various relevant
technological areas.
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Looking for trends in decision support system
world over on the subject.
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Creation of information and database.
The experts in this Forum may deliberate on the requirement of technologies
for alleviation of disaster and firm up the requirement, the methodology
of acquisition, activation and management. The recommendations of
the forum will be forwarded to the policy makers and the agencies
involved in this task.