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Decentralized Coordination

and Information Sharing in

Flood Early Warning and

Response

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Users: Community Response

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Community Disaster Response

Risks:

• Lack of Coordination

• Safety and Security

• Accountability, Privacy

• Malevolent Actions…

Regardless Risks, Community Response will occur

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Previous Research

Previous research:

• EV-CREW

• COBACORE

Can Be:

• Among Communities e.g. Cajun navy

• Across hierarchical scales e.g. Mud Army

Focus on Recovery. Early Warning and Response?

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Gap between Warning and Response

Based on Comes (2016)

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Gas Station Explosion. Accra, 2015

• 150 casualties• Shelter in unsafe location

Is a warning enough? What info is Relevant?

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Early Warning Systems

Information Relevance:

• Warning / Expected Consequences

Information Sharing:

• Towards Communities

• Local info for Professional Responders?

• Info for Coordination of Actions?

• What else is needed to take action?

Coordination Structures

• Among Communities e.g. Cajun Navy

• Across hierarchies e.g. Mud Army

Collaborative?

How to Design Collaborative Early Warning Systems?

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Building a “Safe” Testing Environment

• Build App and

Wait for the Flood?

• Build an App and

Simulate:

• How many?

• At which scale?

• Modelling Complex Adaptive Systems

• Top-down: untested approaches?

• Bottom-up: new approaches.

Use Bottom-Up / Agent Based Modelling

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Agent Based Model Components

Information Sharing & Relevance

• Mode: Face to face or Remotely

• From whom to whom

Coordination Structures

• In peer groups

• Between communities and institutions

Flood Propagation model

• Lead Time

• Information VS Flood Propagation

• Generation of incidents

• Verification of protection efforts

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Expected Results

• Shopping List of Information

• How to get Info Flowing

• How to Coordinate with Communities

Design Guidelines for Collaborative EWS

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Thank you!

Vittorio NespecaDelft University of Technology

v.nespeca@tudelft.nl

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Research Objectives

Design Principles for Collaborative EWS to improve Resilience through Information Sharing and Decentralized Coordination

RO1: Information relevance framework

RO2: Measurement of information sharing and coordination performance

RO3: Evaluate and characterize information sharing and reporting approaches

RO4: Evaluate and characterize different coordination structures

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Platform for Communities

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Applications for Citizens and

Institutions

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