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Integrated Risk Management for Africa

The IRMA project is a collaborative initiative aimed at providing effective communication tools and access to information for swift action in case of accidents, incidents, catastrophes, or crises. With a focus on leveraging existing (tele)communication infrastructures, the project aims to enhance service availability, utilize redundant communication channels, and incorporate new research results in wireless ad-hoc networks and IPv6. The project also aims to create universal solutions applicable to multi-risk management situations in Africa and showcase results for other countries.

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Integrated Risk Management for Africa

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  1. Integrated Risk Management for Africa

  2. IRMA key data • Collaborative project • 3 years • € 3.5M total budget - € 2.5M EC contribution • Started in June 2008: the kick-off meeting was held in Luxembourg on 3-5 June 2008 • 16 partners • including major players in the IP business • the governments of Luxembourg, Mozambique and Morocco participate to support the emergency service trials

  3. IRMA Project - Participants • University of Luxembourg (UL), Luxembourg • Centre de Communication du Gouvernement (CCG), Luxembourg • Technologies Sans Frontières (TSF), Luxembourg • Spacebel S.A. (SPB), Belgium • Thales Alenia Space France (TAS-F), France • SES ASTRA TECHCOM S.A. (SES-ASTRA), Luxemburg • Cisco Systems International B.V. (Cisco), The Netherlands • Réseau National de Télécommunication pour la Technologie, l’enseignement et la Recherche (RENATER), France • Universiteit Van Tilburg (KUB), The Netherlands

  4. IRMA Project – Participants • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa • Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal • Centre Royal de Télédétection Spatiale (CRTS), Morocco • Agence Nationale de Réglémentation des Télécommunications (ANRT), Morocco • Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de l’Université de Yaoundé I (ENSP), Cameroon • Unidade Técnica de Implementação da Politica de Informática (ICT Policy Implementation Technical Unit) (UTICT), Mozambique

  5. IRMA Project vision • To provide the most capable communication tools • To provide the most effective access to information… … to everybody required to swiftly act in case of accident, incident, catastrophe or crisis … whilst using existing and/or future (tele)communication infrastructures based on IP communication.

  6. IRMA Project goals • Enhance the avaibility of the collection of services by use of all existing networks • Leverage redundant communication channels • Use of automatic redirection and/or transformation of communications in case of networks failures • Use of new research results in the area of wireless ad-hoc networks and IPv6 • Use of existing technology and networks

  7. IRMA Project goals (continued) • Create solutions that are as universal as possible • Interworking with existing networks is a wish but not in the focus of the project • Trial and validation activities will show the application of the results in the real life crisis scenarios • Results of u-2010 project as showcase for other countries

  8. IRMA Expected Achievements • A coherent suite of architectural concepts and methodologies applicable to multi-risks management situations in Africa, including advanced multiple vulnerability assessment to cope with complex emergencies. • An integrated set of tools, compliant with the above mentioned concepts and methodologies and with current and emerging international standards. • A pre-operational infrastructure and access-platform, assessed by end-users through operational scenarios serving as reference for future larger scale deployment and providing the facilities for prototyping risk management systems and for supporting a rapid development of applications services.

  9. IRMA Expected Achievements • Specific applications (bushfire, flood, desertification and urban risks) dedicated to the demonstration of multi-risks management in Africa. • A versatile communications system enabling high and/or low rates Internet transfer. • A reliable, low cost communications system enabling alert messages and possibly emergency communications in any location of Africa (i.e. even where no electricity is supplied) • A management concept to monitor and automatically control the functions of services and networks shown as critical through the dependability and vulnerability analysis.

  10. IRMA Contribution to EC policies • DG Development: the EU strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Developing Countries, whose objective is to contribute to sustainable development by reducing the burden of disaster in the most vulnerable countries and by the integration of DRR into development and humanitarian policies and into crisis response. • DG Environment: to contribute to the creation of a Single Environment Information Space and to INSPIRE • DG Information and Society: advancing the Internet by deploying IPv6, especially in Africa • DG Research: to contribute to the validation of the SICA approach to international cooperation with developing countries DG Enterprise: to integrate upcoming GMES downstream services

  11. IRMA Communication Network CRTS ANRT SPB UL CCG SES TSF TAS-F CSE Internet ENSP UTICT CSIR

  12. IRMA: the Senegal Scenarios (Bush Fire and Desertification) CSE Internet Desertification

  13. IRMA: the Mozambique Scenarios (Floods) FLOODS Internet UTICT

  14. IRMA: the Cameroon-Yaoundé Urban Risk Scenario – The Sensor Network ENSP Internet

  15. IRMA: the Moroccan Integrated Risk Scenarios (Flood, Urban risk) CRTS ANRT Internet

  16. IRMA: the South African Integrated Risk Scenarios (Flood, Bush fire, Urban Risk) Internet CSIR

  17. IRMA Project Functional Structure

  18. IRMA Project Structure

  19. WP0: Project ManagementWP Leader: UL, CCG • WP objectives: to provide the internal project management and the overall co-ordination of activities, financial and technical planning and control. • to establish the project management procedures • to perform the management duties (reports) • to establish the project website

  20. WP1: Requirements analysisWP Leader: UL, CCG • WP objectives: to identify the major needs and issues that IRMA must address in order to be able to implement scenarios targeted by the project • to provide a status of the current practices and resources available • to provide a plan for the improvement of risk management in African context: users requirements, methodology to represent multiple vulnerabilities • to evaluate the past and on-going activities (IST projects, GEO…) • to define detailed scenarios

  21. WP2: System Definition and ArchitectureWP Leader: TAS-F • WP objectives: to design a service oriented architecture • to provide the technical requirements based on WP1 results • to study the technologies resulting from previous and on-going projects • to analyse and select open source components applicable to IRMA • to design a cost-effective, sustainable global architecture • to produce technical specifications for the core IRMA platform sub-systems • to provide a test and validation plan for the sub-systems • to provide a methodology and development handbook

  22. WP 3.1: Implementation and Integration of IRMA Core ServicesWP Leader: TAS-F • WP objectives: to develop the ready-to-use generic set of tools • to integrate and test the IRMA generic platform • to provide an installation kit of the IRMA generic platform • to deploy it to the countries involved in the experimentations

  23. WP 3.2: Implementation and Integration of IRMA Communications LayerWP Leader: Cisco • WP objectives: to research and develop networking solutions in order to configure a virtual common domain over heterogeneous large-scale networks • to research the alert and communication sub-system • to ensure interoperability of the communications networks • to investigate the location-based services • to integrate and test the communications systems • to integrate and test the Early Warning and Alerting system

  24. WP 4.0: Tests, trials, validation and final demoWP Leader: Spacebel • WP objectives: • to develop, implement, test, and demonstrate the pilots and to co-ordinate the implementation of the three pilots in Senegal, Mozambique, and Morocco • to perform the global demonstration

  25. WP 4.1: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in SenegalWP Leader: CSE

  26. WP 4.2: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in CameroonWP Leader: ENSP

  27. WP 4.3: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in MozambiqueWP Leader: UTICT

  28. WP5: Dissemination, Standardisation, Exploitation and Technical Update WP Leader: UL, CCG • WP objectives: to manage support activities to the project • to disseminate the results of the project as widely as possible • to provide an exploitation plan for the most significant IRMA results • to ensure that the IRMA developments are fully compliant with existing and emerging standards • to propose the IRMA architecture to standardisation bodies as a best practice in the field • to organise train-the-trainer workshop

  29. IRMA Work Plan

  30. More information on http://www.irma.lu Contact details: Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel thomas.engel@uni.lu + 352 4666 44 5263

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