Osiris
Recent catastrophic flood events in Southern and Central Europe (France, Italy, Spain and Poland, Czech’s Republic, Germany) have demonstrated the need to change the traditional approach to information dissemination in the critical situations and in particular:
- To increase the awareness of the citizens concerning inundation risks and to increase citizen’s involvment in the prevention and crisis management processes;
- To prepare citizens and crisis managers for efficient protection and rescue measures during inundation crisis periods;
- To improve the quality of information made accessible to all flood crisis stakeholders (crisis managers, rescue and civil protection organisations, citizens) before, during and after the crisis period using cutting-edge advances in ICT;
- To increase the rapidity and flexibility of access to information using emergent information transmission and distribution supports, and processing information at all levels (central and local) in various locations.
OSIRIS considers all stages of flood risk management:
- preventive measures
- preparation of action plans
- river monitoring and overflow forecasting (preparatory stage)flood warning
- measures to attenuate the effects of floods
- management the crisis situation
- monitoring the consequences and returning the situation to normal.
OSIRIS will then:
- analyse these stages on different spatial scales, in river basins and associated urban areas
- use new information technologies to improve the consistency
- and the efficiency of data flow transmission
- decision-making and crisis management.
Special attention will be paid to setting up simple but efficient resources for raising awareness of flood risk among residents of flood-prone areas, and building this into their way of thinking.It is hoped to achieve the aims of the project through the following main actions:Definition and testing of participative educational actions aimed at increasing citizens’awareness of flood risks and the initiatives to take during a crisis period;
Definition and testing of crisis scenarios and emergency action plans aimed at protecting people and property;
Design and development of prototype Information and Communication Management Systems dedicated to :
- basin managers
- operational emergency centres
- citizens and their representatives
These systems will be based on the use of new information and communication technologies (mobile phones, Internet, etc…).
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