APEX FORUM

 

Appendix C

POINTS FROM PARTICIPANTS

Wg Cdr (Dr) M L Bala (Retd)

  • IT education can play an important role in disaster management.
  • IETE is proposing to take mobile vans to villages and remote areas to spread awareness about disasters.
Dr H S Sharma
  • Availability of digital maps of disaster prone areas indicating types and degree of effect of disaster in the particular area.
  • Science & Technology to be used for development of non-conventional technologies for alleviation of disasters.
  • Development of automatic warning system which should commence broadcasting at the occurrence without human intervention.
Prof R K Arora
  • Encourage development of IT tools which can break information systems. This is the only way to develop information systems which cannot be broken.
Dr Brahma Singh, DRDO
  • Equipment required for disaster management be compatible with transportation.
  • Create database of what we have and what we do not have covering techniques, equipment and expertise. Dr N M Parthasarthy
  • We must create a minimum corpus of 200 lakhs for development of disaster management. His own contribution in this corpus will be Rs 1 lakh. Commodore Mukesh K Batra, IN
  • Technology for rebuilding of devastated sites and removal of debris.
  • Availability of captive energy systems.
  • Holistic approach needs to be adopted in the management and mitigation of disasters.
Dr Ch Sivaji
  • Digitize both geographical and morphological data especially of disaster prone areas.
Dr J H Agarwal
  • Electronic sensor must be embedded in all buildings.
  • Utilization of smart material which will automatically react to avoid damage.
  • Utilization of amateur radio.
Dr S R Kalsi
  • For effective management of disasters caused by cyclones, ship observation data which used to be provided by all ships, is not being made available now. President IETE
  • Evolve IT enabled warning systems.
  • Control and use of robotics with blue tooth technology.
  • Electronic Leash.
  • Sensors like bio sensing etc.
  • Artificial intelligence for management of disasters.
  • Supercomputing for prediction analysis and mapping.
Dr R A Mashelkar
  • There is a need to change mindset of the people, so that new technology can be introduced to ameliorate the effect of disasters
  • All citizens must be prepared to contribute their might towards disaster management.
  • Important and rich ideas have come out which need to be put in as recommendations and to be circulated to various institutions.
  • President IETE may like to make the presentation to the National Disaster Management Task Force headed by Shri Sharad Pawar on the subject to be arranged by CSIR.
  • President IETE may like to make a presentation to Shri Sharad Pawar which can be arranged by CSIR.