Integrated Risk Management for Africa 1. IRMA key data European Commission funded Research Project 3 years € 3.5M total budget - € 2.5M EC contribution.

Integrated Risk Management for Africa

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IRMA key data

• European Commission funded Research Project• 3 years• € 3.5M total budget - € 2.5M EC contribution• Started in June 2008

• 9 EU & 6 African Partners – including major players in the IP business– the governments of Luxembourg, Mozambique and

Morocco participate to support the emergency service trials

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The IRMA Consortium

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IRMA Vision

• ICT-based Environmental Risk Management – Though telecommunication infrastructure is limited– Data is limited

• In addition: new applications in support of regional development:– Environmental management– Regional planning– Next generation IP based networks

IRMA Goals

• ICT Multi-Risk Platform (mostly Open Source)• Integrate existing services and technologies (risk

assessment to recovery)• Develop local services• Demonstrate value in 5 scenarios

IRMA technical approach

• Integration and adaptation to the specific conditions of Africa of the best R&D results coming from recent or on-going European R&D projects:– Overall service oriented architecture: WIN & ORCHESTRA– Earth observation service environment : ESA SSE, GENESIS– Sensor network software : SANY– Ad-hoc wireless networks : u2010– IPv6 based solutions : u2010– Automatic handling of network failure: u2010

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IRMA technical approach

• Integration and adaptation of state-of-the-art tools and services– SAHANA– Google– NASA– OGC Sensor Web Enablement

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Open Systems!Open Standards!

Mass Market Tools!

IRMA Expected Achievements

• A coherent suite of architectural concepts and methodologies applicable to multi-risks management situations in Africa, including advanced multiple vulnerability assessment to cope with complex emergencies.

• An integrated set of tools, compliant with the above mentioned concepts and methodologies and with current and emerging international standards.

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IRMA Expected Achievements

• A pre-operational infrastructure and access-platform, assessed by end-users through operational scenarios serving as reference for further prototyping and future larger scale deployments

• Specific applications (bushfire, flood, desertification and urban risks) dedicated to the demonstration of multi-risks management in Africa.

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IRMA Expected Achievements

• A versatile communications system enabling high and/or low rates Internet transfer.

• A reliable, low cost communications system enabling alert messages and possibly emergency communications in any location of Africa (i.e. even where no electricity is supplied)

• A management concept to monitor and automatically control the functions of services and networks shown as critical through the dependability and vulnerability analysis.

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IRMA Communication Network

CSIRCSIR

UTICT UTICT

ENSP ENSP

CSE CSE

CRTSANRT CRTSANRT

ULCCGSESTSF

ULCCGSESTSF

SPBSPB

TAS-F TAS-F

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IRMA: the Senegal Scenarios (Bush Fire and Desertification)

DesertificationCSE CSE

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IRMA: the Mozambique Scenarios (Floods)

UTICT UTICT

FLOODS

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The Floods Scenario in Mozambique

Source: USGS/FEWS NET

The Floods Scenario in Mozambique

Weaknesses in the National Alert System:• Hydrometric and meteorological observation stations in the

countrywide not providing continuous and accurate information enough to make the forecasts;

• Alert information not reaching remote areas, were most of the population lives;

• Communication problems during emergency assistance.

The Floods Scenario in Mozambique

Targeted improvements:• Share/exchange information with the neighbouring

countries crossed by the same rivers;• Build a reliable robust and secure national communications

infrastructure; • Build Community Information Access Points – RANET

Project (Radio Network), Community Multimedia Centre (includes Community Radio)

The Floods Scenario in Mozambique

Targeted improvements:• Investment in Capacity Building (Ex. Training in modern

information dissemination mechanisms).• National Meteorological Network (meteorological

observation stations) – INAM• National Hydrometric Network (hydrometric observation

stations) – DNA/ARA (North, South and Center)

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IRMA: the Cameroon-Yaoundé Urban Risk Scenario

ENSP ENSP

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IRMA: the Moroccan Integrated Risk Scenarios (Flood, Urban risk)

CRTS ANRT CRTS ANRT

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IRMA: the South African Integrated Risk Scenarios (Flood, Bush fire, Urban Risk)

CSIR CSIR

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Advanced Fire Information System

Terraand Aqua

Direct BroadcastReceiving StationSatellite Application Centre (SAC)South Africa

GeoDatabase

AFIShttp://wamis.co.za/

SOS

MSG

Direct BroadcastReceiving StationNational Weather ServiceSouth Africa

SOSWeather data

SASFire Detection SOS

Persistent data

WCS

SOSTraffic

End users

More information on

http://www.irma.lu

Contact details:

Ingo Simonis

[email protected]