APEX FORUM

 

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:

  • Sensor endowed rescue.
  • Use of Robotics for rescue.
  • Internet enabled disaster management.
  • Area of Artificial Intelligence
  • 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.
  • Technologies-Integrated and available at short notice including technology for calamity prediction.
  • Supercomputing.
  • 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:

  • Liasion and co-ordination of R&D in various relevant technological areas.
  • Looking for trends in decision support system world over on the subject.
  • 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.