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Overcoming Disaster Response Communication Challenges

Government Technology Insider

Making the process harder are many disaster response communication challenges, which require significant effort to overcome. Thankfully, the growing number of communities affected by server storms and other natural disasters are not alone.

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How one state bakes cyber into disaster response planning

GCN

California uses playbooks and multi-stakeholder exercises to prepare for cyberattacks, focusing on making its response “agile.”. Cybersecurity

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How AWS is supporting nonprofits, governments, and communities impacted by Hurricane Ian

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the wake of severe storms such as Hurricane Ian, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Disaster Preparedness and Response team leverages the AWS Cloud to help communities more efficiently prepare for and respond to disasters globally.

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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Natural disasters are devastating, often resulting in loss of life and massive property damage. Natural disasters can also damage the critical infrastructure that powers emergency services—prompting public sector organizations to consider building more resilient infrastructure.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

Every day, people around the world are impacted by the unexpected – from pandemics, to natural and human-wrought disasters, to economic crises. AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT).

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Protect critical services with new Continuity of Government IT on AWS solution guide

AWS Public Sector Blog

Essential services for emergency response, public safety, or national security can be designed in a way that allows for the smooth shift of operations between on-premises and the cloud. How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud.

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22 new or updated open datasets on AWS: New polar satellite data, blockchain data, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Seismologists can’t predict an impending earthquake, but longer term forecasts and brief warnings after one starts are possible

GCN

Earthquake prediction technology is still a farfetched idea that, if ever realized, may even complicate disaster response plans. Data & Analytics

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VR trains responders for mass casualty events

GCN

Conducting a disaster response training program can be costly and time-consuming, but a virtual reality simulation can train multiple employees at once and provide performance assessments.

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Season 3 Episode 25 - Tech's Role in FEMA CIO's 'Mission First' Approach

GovCast

As FEMA maintains an important position for the nation's disaster response efforts, Hutchinson is ensuring its IT capabilities are supporting the agency's data analytics, supply chain, infrastructure and security services during the pandemic and beyond CIO Lytwaive Hutchinson discusses how she took the values from her 21-year military career and applied it to her roles in public service.

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VDEM Region 4 receives ‘Response Program of the Year’ award at VEMS

VDEM (Virgina Department of Emergency Management)

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) Region 4 team and response partners received the Response Program of the Year award at the 2023 Virginia Emergency Management Symposium (VEMS).

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Your cloud, your way: Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is generally available

Google Public Sector

Use Vision AI to optimize natural disaster response, analyze infectious diseases, or detect fraud.

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Visions of Recovery: Advancing Emergency Management

First State Insights

Visit [link] to learn more about DEMA's work to coordinate emergency preparedness, training, response, recovery, and mitigation services in Delaware. To learn more about Delaware Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), visit [link].

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How Satellogic and AWS are harnessing the power of space and cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Customers use this space data for initiatives like global climate monitoring, wildlife protection, disaster response, food security, and broadband accessibility. Get inspired.

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Get prepared for re:Invent 2022: A public sector guide

AWS Public Sector Blog

Also scope out the AWS Disaster Response Rolling Lab at the Caesars Forum Plaza. Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent returns to Las Vegas, Nevada for 2022, from November 28 through December 2.

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Google Cloud launches new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies improve climate resilience

Google Public Sector

With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The current system for managing major incidents and disasters in the United Kingdom was devised after the Broadwater Farm, Tottenham, riots of 1986 and reflects a preoccupation with public order. Let's lay it on the line: these are disasters.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is salutary to reflect that many of those scholars who have studied this disaster are too young to have experienced it. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known).

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What we learned at Amazon re:MARS 2022 for the public sector

AWS Public Sector Blog

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Hence, disaster studies has resisted taxonomy and perhaps is not amenable to any robust form of classification. Natural Disasters.

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