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: the kick-off meeting was held in

Luxembourg on 3-5 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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IRMA KEY DATA The consortium

INDUSTRY PLAYERS GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS

NGO BEST-IN-CLASS RESEARCH

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• University of Luxembourg (UL), Luxembourg

• Centre de Communication du Gouvernement (CCG), Luxembourg

• Technologies Sans Frontières (TSF), Luxembourg

• Spacebel S.A. (SPB), Belgium

• Thales Alenia Space France (TAS-F), France

• SES ASTRA TECHCOM S.A. (SES-ASTRA), Luxemburg

• Cisco Systems International B.V. (Cisco), The Netherlands

• Réseau National de Télécommunication pour la Technologie, l’enseignement et la Recherche (RENATER), France

• Universiteit Van Tilburg (KUB), The Netherlands

IRMA Project - Partners

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• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa

• Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal

• Centre Royal de Télédétection Spatiale (CRTS), Morocco

• Institut National des Postes & Telecommunications (INPT) - Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT), Morocco

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de l’Université de Yaoundé I (ENSP), Cameroon

• Unidade Técnica de Implementação da Politica de Informática (ICT Policy Implementation Technical Unit) (UTICT) (Subcontractors: INGC & INAM), Mozambique

IRMA Project – Partners

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The IRMA Consortium

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• Dr. Tomaz Salomao Executive Secretary, SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC), Mozambique

• Chamindra K. I. de Silva, Sahana Project Lead and Director, Lanka Software Foundation, Sri Lanka

• Sálvano Briceño, Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction UN/ISDR, Palais des Nations, Switzerland www.unisdr.org

• Salomão J. Manhiça. Chairman, INCM (Postal & Telecom Regulator) Director, ICT Policy, Mozambique

• Pier Giorgio Marchetti EOP-GR, Service Support and Ground Segment Technology Office European Space Agency  Frascati Italy   http://earth.esa.int/rtd http://www.esa.int

• Frank Zeppenfeldt, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

• Thomas Usländer, Group Manager,Fraunhofer IITB - ORCHESTRA and SANY

• Tom De Groeve EC Joint Research Centre, GDACS Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

IRMA Advisory Board

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• Cameroun:• Ludovic Etoundi (GTS - Cameroun); • Philippe Bisseck (Ministère de l'urbanisme - Cameroun);• Roger Fotso, CEO de Saconets which is the main company implementing Internet WiMax and

offering Thuraya phone services in Cameroun• Morocco• La protection Civile (Ministère de l’intérieur)• Direction de la surveillance et de la prévention des risques (Département de l’Environnement)• Sénégal• Mr Idrissa DIALLO (Direction de la Protection Civile, Ministère de l’Intérieure) • Mr Pape NDIAYE  (Direction des Eaux et Forêts, Ministère de l’Environnement)• Mr Mamina CAMARA (Direction de la Méteorologie Nationale)• Mr Pape Waly Guèye, Coordinateur de la CEPS (Cellule d’Etude, de Planification et de Suivi)

du Ministère de l’Environnement• Mr Mamadou Kassé, Conseiller Technique du Ministre de la Communication • Mme Ndèye Maimouna DIOP DIAGNE direction des télécommunications• Somebody from the Direction des Parcs Nationaux, it’ll depend on pilot tests site• Mozambique• Salomão J. Manhiça. Chairman, INCM (Postal & Telecom Regulator) Director, ICT Policy,

Mozambique (also member of the IRMA Advisory Board)• Edmundo Monteiro Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra and visiting professor at

the ISCTEM private university where he teaches computer networking and security• South Africa• Dewald van Niekerk, Director: African Centre for Disaster Studies, South Africa• Deshendran Moodley, Head of Department Computer Science, UKZN, South Africa• Geoff Pegram, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

IRMA NATIONAL OBSERVERS BOARDS

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IRMA Vision

• An innovative use of advanced ICT has the capacity to provide at a low cost, very effective tools to improve substantially environmental risk management effectiveness even when the data infrastructure and or the telecommunication infrastructure is limited.

• In addition, the IRMA experience will pave the way to a range of new applications in support of regional development such as:– Environmental management– Regional planning– Next generation IP based networks

IRMA Project Goals• To develop and validate a state-of-the-art ICT service

platform designed to support the management of a wide range of environmental risks during all risk phases from risk assessment to recovery

• To integrate existing generic services provided by international organizations

• To develop additional local services• To assess the value of IRMA by implementing five disaster

scenarios validated by the stakeholders• To make a substantial part of the IRMA platform available as

open source free software

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IRMA technical approach (continued)

• Create solutions that are as universal as possible

• Interworking with existing networks is a wish but not in the focus of the project

• Trial and validation activities will show the application of the results in the real life crisis scenarios

• Results of u-2010 project as showcase for other countries

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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.

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

the facilities for prototyping risk management systems and for supporting

a rapid development of applications services.

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

• 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.

IRMA Expected Achievements

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IRMA Contribution to EC policies• DG Development: the EU strategy for Disaster Risk

Reduction (DRR) in Developing Countries, whose objective is to contribute to sustainable development by reducing the burden of disaster in the most vulnerable countries and by the integration of DRR into development and humanitarian policies and into crisis response.

• DG Environment: to contribute to the creation of a Single Environment Information Space and to INSPIRE

• DG Information and Society: advancing the Internet by deploying IPv6, especially in Africa

• DG Research: to contribute to the validation of the SICA approach to international cooperation

with developing countries

DG Enterprise: to integrate upcoming GMES downstream services 15

IRMA Communication Network

CSIRCSIR

UTICT UTICT

ENSP ENSP

CSE CSE

CRTSANRT CRTSANRT

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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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IRMA: the Cameroon-Yaoundé Urban Risk Scenario – The Sensor Network

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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IRMA Project Functional Structure

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IRMA Project Structure

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WP0: Project ManagementWP Leader: UL, CCG

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D0.1 Project presentation T0+3

D0.2 Project procedures: project management plan, reporting procedures, reporting templates, quality assurance plan, website.

T0+3, T0+4

D0.3. 1 - 4 Periodic reports T0+10, T0+19, T0+28, T0+38

D0.4 Publishable Final Project Report T0+38

WP objectives: to provide the internal project management and the overall co-ordination of activities, financial and technical planning and control.

• to establish the project management procedures• to perform the management duties (reports)• to establish the project website

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WP1: Requirements analysisWP Leader: UL, CCG

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D1.1 Methodology and questionnaire for risk management analysis

T0+3

D1.2 Best practices and needs for risk management in Africa T0+6

D1.3 Report on the existing services and applications T0+6

D1.4.1

D1.4.2

Scenarios definition report

Users requirements document

T0+9, T0+12

T0+9, T0+12

D1.5 Scientific report on multi-risk methodologies T0+12

WP objectives: to identify the major needs and issues that IRMA must address in order to be able to implement scenarios targeted by the project

• to provide a status of the current practices and resources available • to provide a plan for the improvement of risk management in African context: users requirements, methodology to represent multiple vulnerabilities• to evaluate the past and on-going activities (IST projects, GEO…)• to define detailed scenarios

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WP2: System Definition and ArchitectureWP Leader: TAS-F

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D2.1 Technical Requirement Document T0+9, T0+18

D2.2 Report on the potential use of background and open source components T0+12

D2.3 Global Architecture Design Document T0+12, T0+18

D2.4 Specifications of the Data Acquisition sub-systems T0+6, T0+16, T0+30

D2.5 Specifications of Risk Management Applications T0+15

D2.6 Specifications of the Telecommunication sub-systems T0+15, T0+30

D2.7 Test and Validation Plan T0+18

D2.8 Methodology and development handbook T0+10

WP objectives: to design a service oriented architecture

• to provide the technical requirements based on WP1 results• to study the technologies resulting from previous and on-going projects• to analyse and select open source components applicable to IRMA• to design a cost-effective, sustainable global architecture• to produce technical specifications for the core IRMA platform sub-systems• to provide a test and validation plan for the sub-systems• to provide a methodology and development handbook

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WP 3.1: Implementation and Integration of IRMA Core Services

WP Leader: TAS-F

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D3.1 Generic IRMA platformTest and Validation Report for the Generic IRMA platformIRMA generic platform "installation kit and deployment guidelines"

T0+20T0+22T0+24

WP objectives: to develop the ready-to-use generic set of tools

• to integrate and test the IRMA generic platform • to provide an installation kit of the IRMA generic platform• to deploy it to the countries involved in the experimentations

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WP 3.2: Implementation and Integration of IRMA Communications Layer

WP Leader: Cisco

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D3.2 Specification of the IRMA communications scenarios and preliminary architectureReport on IRMA mobility solution Report on IRMA recommended security and privacy protocols Report on IRMA survivability of networks in crisis situationsReport on sensors/RFID solutions for disaster risk managementSpecification of the collaborative emergency platformGuidelines for the deployment of Telecommunications infrastructure

T0+18T0+18T0+18T0+18T0+24T0+12T0+21

WP objectives: to research and develop networking solutions in order to configure a virtual common domain over heterogeneous large-scale networks

• to research the alert and communication sub-system• to ensure interoperability of the communications networks• to investigate the location-based services• to integrate and test the communications systems• to integrate and test the Early Warning and Alerting system

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WP 4.0: Tests, trials, validation and final demoWP Leader: Spacebel

WP objectives:

• to develop, implement, test, and demonstrate the pilots and to co-ordinate the implementation of the three pilots in Senegal, Mozambique, and Morocco

• to perform the global demonstration

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WP 4.1: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in Senegal

WP Leader: CSE

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D4.1.1 Software componentT0+25

D4.1.2 Integration test and validation planT0+25

D4.1.3 Integration test and validation report (thematic platform)T0+27

D4.1.4 Test report for the communications infrastructureT0+27

D4.1.5 Integration test and validation report (full scenario)T0+28

D4.1.6 Evaluation report for the demonstration T0+31

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WP 4.2: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in Cameroon

WP Leader: ENSP

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D4.2.1 Software componentT0+26

D4.2.2 Integration test and validation planT0+26

D4.2.3 Integration test and validation report (thematic platform)T0+28

D4.2.4 Test report for the communications infrastructureT0+28

D4.2.5 Integration test and validation report (full scenario)T0+29

D4.2.6 Evaluation report for the demonstration T0+32

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WP 4.3: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in Mozambique

WP Leader: UTICT

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D4.3.1 Software componentT0+27

D4.3.2 Integration test and validation planT0+27

D4.3.3 Integration test and validation report (thematic platform)T0+29

D4.3.4 Test report for the communications infrastructureT0+29

D4.3.5 Integration test and validation report (full scenario)T0+30

D4.3.6 Evaluation report for the demonstration T0+33

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WP5: Dissemination, Standardisation, Exploitation and Technical Update

WP Leader: UL, CCG

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline

D5.1 Dissemination and Use plan

T0+6, T0+18, T0+30

D5.2 Report on standardization activities T0+12, T0+24

D5.3

Technical update needs of African partners and targeted countries Technical material (general topics)Technical material (implementation oriented) Technical sessions report

T0+9

T0+15T0+28T0+35

WP objectives: to manage support activities to the project

• to disseminate the results of the project as widely as possible• to provide an exploitation plan for the most significant IRMA results• to ensure that the IRMA developments are fully compliant with existing and emerging standards • to propose the IRMA architecture to standardisation bodies as a best practice in the field• to organise train-the-trainer workshop

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IRMA Work Plan

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More information on

http://www.irma.lu

Contact details:

Guy Weets - guy.weets@uni.lu

Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel

thomas.engel@uni.lu

+ 352 4666 44 5263

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