i4donline.net ~ January 2005 Issue: Tsunami

In the wake of the tsunami disaster hitting more than 10 countries, new interest has been generated in natural disaster and disaster management. Shocked people around the globe sought Internet for information on them. A list of websites dealing with disaster management has been given below to help in their searching.

http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/
This website of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, gives the news about the various projects, workshops, guidelines and events undertaken by the Ministry for disaster management in India.

http://www.wcdm.org/main.html
15th World Conference on Disaster Management will take place in Toronto, Canada on July 10-13, 2005. Here experts in Disaster Management from across the globe will gather in order to listen and learn, plan and prepare, educate and exchange on the lessons to be learned from all disciplines of disaster and emergency management.The catchline of the Conference is ‘WHEN THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS, THEY TURN TO YOU! Where can you turn to learn how to think through the unthinkable?’

http://www.worldbank.org/hazards/files/ECA_strategy.pdf
This site consists of the working paper published by World Bank on comprehensive Risk Management Framework for Europe and Central Asia. Based on historical data, this paper provides a profile for each country that estimates the likely economic losses from a catastrophic event occurring every 200 years, the losses from an event occurring every 20 years, and the average annual economic cost of disasters, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP. It also assesses institutional arrangements for disaster management. The document is based on a series of country assessments that included extensive consultations with key experts and authorities in the region through a series of five sub regional distance learning seminars.

http://dmc.engr.wisc.edu/courses/index.html
Information about self-study course curriculum in international disaster/emergency management of Disaster Management Centre of University of Wisconsin. The Centre’s goal is to improve the emergency management performance of non-governmental organizations, local and national governments and international organizations, through a comprehensive professional development program in disaster management.

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/disaster.htm#current
This website deals with Disaster and Emergency Management on the Internet prepared by ‘The Radio Amateurs’ Emergency Network’ of Staffordshire, UK. It gives details about the types of disaster and also names of Government organisation and NGOs dealing with disaster management of some selected countries.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/gtog/disaster.htm
This is the official website of US President’s e-government initiative providing citizens and members of the emergency management community a unified point of access to disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery information from across federal, state, and local government.

http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/disastermanagement/
This is the official website of the State of Florida, USA. It provides full details of the disaster management plan of the State. It gives the description of the natural disasters, what to do when the disaster take place and also provides the contact number of the emergency management units of all the Counties. It also gives evacuation and mitigation plan and also the duties of various government bodies during disaster. It has been developed as a one-stop platform for the citizen of Florida for information and assistance during disaster.

http://www.indianngos.com/issue/disaster/people/ngos.html
This website give the names, addresses, contact no, e-mail ID of the NGOs (statewise) working for Disaster Management in India.

http://www.undmtp.org/english/roles/role.pdf
This site give the role and responsibilities of the United Nations Disaster Management Team. It has been prepared for United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme.

http://www.dotars.gov.au/ndr/
This is the website of Government of Australia. It gives information about mitigation, relief and recovery arrangements commissioned by The Council of Australian Governments (COAG).

http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/m25dcp/
This is the website of M25 Disaster Management Group set up by the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries of UK. The group wants to promote awareness about the best practices in disaster control management, assist in the dissemination of information and undertake co-operative initiatives to carry out the practices.

http://disasterfinder.gsfc.nasa.gov/Disaster_Management/
This search service is provided by NASA/GSFC Earth Sciences Directorate. It gives information about the organisations that are responsible for education and training, mitigation, preparedness, recovery, relief, research, response and warnings during natural disasters in USA.

http://www.disaster-info.net/PED-Sudamerica/Documentos/DisasterManagement_2005r.pdf
This website gives information about the First International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management which will take place in Delft, the Netherlands on March 21-23, 2005.

http://www.unisdr.org/
This is the website of United Nation’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It provice information about the World Conference on Disaster Reduction to be held at Kobe in Japan on 18-22 January, 2005. It also gives information about disaster statistics and the United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction.

http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2004/
This website give the full World Disasters Report of the year 2004. It has been published by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and focuses on building community resilience from disaster.