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Early Warning Systems –
    Interdisciplinary Observations and Policies From a Local Government
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Name: Sukumar
    Dwarkanath  Email: 

    
Free Symposium Delivered via the
    Internet and E-mail, April 18-22

    
Important Symposium Program
    Announcement

    
The Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) is sending you
    this message about an upcoming PERI Virtual Symposium on Early Warning Systems. We hope you
    find this information useful. If it is not appropriate for your interests,
    but you know colleagues who would be interested in the program, please
    forward this message to them.

    
How Can Effective Early Warning Systems
    Be Put in Place in the U.S.,
    Worldwide?

    
The complex issues involved in how to get to the point
    at which useful and effective early warning system are place is the central
    theme of the next Virtual Symposium sponsored by the Public Entity Risk
    Institute: Early Warning Systems –
    Interdisciplinary Observations and Policies from a Local Government
    Perspective. The Virtual Symposium will take place April 18-22,
    2005, and will be conducted in the Symposium Center
    here on PERI's Web site and via e-mail.

    
The PERI Symposium will be a 'collaborating conference,'
    and will be held concurrently, with the 2005 meeting of the ISCRAM Group
    (International Systems for Crisis Response and Management). ISCRAM is an
    international community of experts, and will be conducting its annual
    conference in Brussels,
     Belgium,
    April 18-20. PERI and ISCRAM will exchange information and jointly explore
    ways to contribute towards early warning system policy development.

    
The idea for this PERI Symposium was sparked by the
    tragic tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia.
    If a tsunami warning system had been in place, could timely warnings have
    been provided to multiple nations and could people have acted upon the warnings?

    
Does the Southeast Asia
    disaster point to lessons that should be heeded by local, national, and
    international officials throughout the world? Disaster and emergency
    management experts in the U.S.
    and around the world are mindful of the difficulty of putting early warning
    systems to effective and efficient use – there is a considerable distance
    to go before standardized technology, central coordination and
    notification, and local response achieve a balance that leads to a truly
    useful early warning system.

    
Enroll in the Program At No Charge

    
Anyone interested in the topic of early warning systems
    can participate in the PERI Symposium by enrolling at no charge by using
    the online enrollment form on PERI's Web site (www.riskinstitute.org). The
    program will include the presentation of daily Issues and Ideas Papers; an
    online, ongoing discussion; and other features.

    
To participate in the program, simply complete the
    online enrollment form found in the "Symposium Center"
    on PERI's Web site at:

    
http://www.riskinstitute.org/test.php?pid=page&tid=16
    

    
Call for Symposium Papers

    
The Symposium program's moderator, Dr. Eelco Dykstra,
    has prepared a concept paper framing several critical issues involved in
    early warning systems. In his concept paper, Dr. Dykstra is inviting the
    submission of papers to be presented during the PERI Symposium.

    
To read Dr. Dykstra's concept paper and call for papers,
    please go to the Symposium Papers page of the "Symposium Center"
    on PERI's Web site at:

    
http://www.riskinstitute.org/test.php?pid=page&tid=17

    
Early Warning System Issues

    
Dr. Dykstra's concept paper is an attempt to look at the
    bigger picture of early warning systems, and to frame some of the issues
    involved in employing and using effective warning systems. It looks first
    at the issues surrounding the technology of early warning systems, most
    notably the need to integrate functional requirements and technical
    specifications. Second, it addresses the policy side by highlighting the
    need to find an often precarious balance between central coordination on
    the one hand and early awareness and active participation by local
    communities on the other. For without this balance, any system or
    technology is doomed to fail. Third, the paper offers a simple scenario
    that can be used as a starting point for discussion and exchange.

    
About the Public Entity Risk Institute

    PERI is a nonprofit, non-membership organization
    whose mission is to serve public, private, and nonprofit organizations as a
    dynamic, forward-thinking resource in risk management and disaster
    management. PERI presents its Symposium Programs as a public service. Past
    programs have included Toward an International System Model in Emergency
    Management; Evaluating
    Community Emergency Services; Risk Assessment and Planning for Volunteer
    Fire Departments; Community Response to the
    Threat of Terrorism; and Dealing with Disaster
    
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