06a_Creating Synergy from Chaos

11-12 April 2013 - Kista, SwedenWGET ICT Humanitarian Forum

WGET ICT HUMANITARIAN FORUM


CREATING SYNERGY FROM CHAOS

Implementing the “Whole of Society” approach to address challenges of post-disaster communications

John Auble, President, DeLorme

Rakesh Bharania, Tac Ops, CISCO

Pat Lanthier, Chair, eCLIC at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon V.

Kelly Sponberg, Manager, Int’l Extension & Public Alert Systems


DISASTER CHAOS Communications = Complexity, Threat

Donors

World Bank USAID, AUSAID

,etc

UNDP ISDR

United NationsSystem

OCHAWFP UNHCR

Cyber Security >>>>

UNESCO

UNESCAP

NGOs

GlobalLocal

- World Vision- IRC/RC- CARE- Mercy Corps- Save the Children…many others

- - ASEAN- Salvation Ar.- many more…

Nets

- -TSF- NetHope- SAHANA-HumanaNet …

Industry / MediaGovernments

MILITARY FED, STATE, CITY

Volunteer & Technical

Communities Crisis Commons Standby

Academia

Evil

Hackers

INTEROPERABILITY


PlanPrepare

Prevent

Respond

Recover

Mitigate

MORE THAN RESPONSEEmergency Management Cycle: Collaborate


SYNERGY FROM CHAOS:

SYNERGY : 1 + 1 = 3Results are greater than the sum,

more effective, more efficient :“Bigger bang for the Buck”, with:

1. LEADERSHIP

2. INNOVATION

3. COLLABORATION ( L+ I + C )


VISIONARY LEADERSHIP

“A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it…it is the single most explosive fact of our lifetimes

It is…the Third Wave, the Information Age”

~ Alvin Toffler

> We need leaders with vision to help develop the infrastructure - connections & skills/applications

- create SYNERGY


THE LEADERSHIP CONTEXTCharacteristics of the New Economy

Fast

Global

Knowledge-Worker Dependent

Network-Based

COMMUNICATIONS is the CRITICAL FACTOR

“Collaborating to Compete” – Cal Econ Strategy Panel

WGET CONTEXT : “New Economy” HA/DR Comms


SYNERGISTIC LEADERSHIP Digital Conversion -“ROMP”- $400M , 2years

Rural Office Mod Program (CPUC+CAP+PACBELL)

California Nonfarm Employment 1988-1999

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SYNERGISTIC EFFECT : GOOD COMMS = JOBS 8


INNOVATION: WIRELESSMobile BroadBand : The Future is Here

“The future of Broadband is Wireless;

The future of Wireless is Broadband”

-“Broadband Wireless will soon close what information gap remains”...Forbes

- “Most exciting new tech platform since the Internet – no innovation limits”…Forbes

- “Likely offer a larger wave of investment opportunity than the PC”…John Doerr, VC


INNOVATION:SOCIAL MEDIA

- Knowledge Management for better Situational Understanding(SU) (beyond SA: Awareness)

- Enlightened Social Media use/analysis leads to “Social Intelligence” (SI)

- User-Defined Operational Picture (UDOP) or COP can create shared SI/SU space & Best Decision-Making


1st UDOP EXAMPLE ? : BATTLE OF BRITAIN, 1940

- “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” Churchill

Sir Hugh Dowding, RAF Fighter Command

- 1937: Created Innovative Plan

- Manage RAF Fighters, Radar, w/ UDOP

- System & Plan: New, Opposed

- All coordinated via tabletop UDOP

- SEPT 1940: World-saving VICTORY


CMUSV DMI INNOVATION in Disaster Management : INCIDENT AIDE


COLLABORATE: ICT & EMS

- Info/Comms Tech (ICT) & Emergency Medical Services (EMS) : both universal HA/DR needs, key parts of any relief

- EMS “Lead Users” create innovation platform for ICT planners ( Van Halprin, PhD, MIT, “Democratized Innovation”)

- Enhanced collaboration of ICT & EMS enables multiple synergies, ++ lives, --$


ASIA/PACIFIC, GLOBALLY

- 70 % OF DISASTERS

- 55 % OF GDP

- 45 % OF TRADE

- 50 % OF POPULATION & SURFACE

- 90 % OF LARGEST PORTS

- 70 % OF LARGEST STAND. MILITARIES U.S. VIEW: COLLABORATION, with COMMUNICATIONS a PREREQUSITE


WHOLE OF SOCIETY APPROACH (APEC)

- ASIA PACIFIC ECON COOPERATION

- U.S. AID, PACOM, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, NOAA, ROCKEFELLER & FORD FOUNDATIONS, U.S. JAPAN COUNCIL, DOZENS OF COUNTRIES

- 11/11/2011: SIGNED “STATEMENT OF INTENT” TO “STRENGTHEN REGIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION & RESILIENCE”


APEC (con’t)

WHOLE OF SOCIETY APPROACH to:

“ 1. SAVE LIVES,

2. ENSURE ECONOMIC VITALITY,

3. ENHANCE HUMAN WELL-BEING ”

Note: 2011 Thailand floods affected 14M people, 84% of counties, $45B damages, reduced growth (7.8 to 4.7%)


PTC

- PACIFIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL (PTC) IN OAHU, HAWAII

- 30+ YEARS, INDUSTRY/GOV/ACADEMIA

- 6 YEARS, EMERGENCY COMMS WORKSHOP AT JANUARY ANNUAL CONFERENCE; P.LANTHIER, CHAIR

- OPEN TO MCIP & WGET PARTICIPANTS


CREATE SYNERGY WITH US- MCIP + PTC + WGET + WFP + +

- SPREAD “WHOLE OF SOCIETY” VIEW

>> LIVES, ECONOMIES, WELL-BEING

- EXAMPLES FROM CURRENT ACTIVE MCIP, PTC, WGET COLLABORATORS:

- CISCO, DELORME, NOAA/IEPAS

Contact : John & Rakesh at WGET

Contact Pat Lanthier: [email protected]

Contact Kelly Sponberg: [email protected]


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAUBLE, JOHN; DELORME BHARAINA, RAKESH; CISCO

BORDETSKY, ALEX; NPS BIRNBAUM, STEVE; GVF

CARLSON, BRIAN; GVF COLLINS, DR. PATRICIA; CMUSV

CREWS, MIKE; CALEMA DUNLOP, DR. WM.; LLNL

ELLIOT, MELISSA; STANDBY FOX, DEAN; URS

GHALY, CHERIF; UNOCHA GODOY, JUAN; UNISYS

GRIFFIN, SCOTT; PACOM GRISS, DR. MARTIN; CMUSV

GRAMMATIS, KOSTA; AHR GOLDBERG, ABBY; AHR

IRVING, DON; NVIS KELLY, ROB; CISCO

LANTHIER, SEAN; ECLIC LAYNE, RICARDO; PACOM

LOWRY, GEORGE; CALEMA NELSON, CATHERINE; CISCO

PARK, GREG; LIVPD PICKETT, LTC. JUSTIN; PACOM

RAY, DR. STEVE; CMUSV SHANLEY, DR.LEA; WILSON CTR

STAMBERGER, DR. JEANNIE; TULANE STECKLER, BRIAN; NPS WALLER, JUSTIN; TSFWHITESIDE, BRIAN; VDOSILSON, FLOYD;

LVJUSD ZITA, KEN; NDA

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