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Collected by: University of Melbourne

Archived since: Sep, 2013

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Title: Australia India Strategic Research Fund

URL: http://aisrf.eng.unimelb.edu.au/

Description: Australia India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) funded by both Australian and Indian Governments is dedicated to promote bilateral research between Australian and Indian researchers to participate in leading edge scientific research projects and workshops. This workshop funded by AISRF focusses on improving disaster management practices in Indian and Australia. The magnitude and impacts of disasters caused by both natural and unnatural disasters have been huge for governments and societies especially in the last three decades. Statistics show that the Australia’s financial losses after a major disaster is similar to that of India, whilst India’s societal losses have been higher. Both India and Australia aim towards a disaster resilient society based on a whole-of-nation approach underpinned by the application of emerging technologies. In this context, spatial information has been embraced by governments at certain levels with limited success. However the application of spatially enabled technologies should not be just limited individual applications. An integrative platform that can span across all levels of government, societies and organisations with both control and input across a range of data would be an ideal platform for enhanced planning, preparation, response and recovery. This workshop will analyse current practice and outline best practice measures for both governments. A review of national technological capacity will be undertaken based on the state-of-the-art research in natural and unnatural disasters. Participants from Australia and India include internationally acclaimed academics and practitioners. Public participation is allowed for selected sessions. This workshop commences on the 21st Jan 2013 and concludes on the 24th Jan 2013 and is held in the Industrial Consulting and Sponsored Research (IC & SR) Building in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Sardar Patel Road, Chennai due to the collaborative efforts of University of Madras and IITM, Chennai. Furthermore the workshop is represented by delegates from the Department of Science and Technology, National Institute of Karnataka, National Maritime Foundation, Government of Tamilnadu, Government of Gujarat, Anna University, Coordinates Magazine and SEEDS India. Australian representations include academics from The University of Melbourne, The Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria University, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Victoria State Police in Melbourne. A short field visit to the coastal hamlets in and around Nemmeli on the East Coast Road is planned to witness the role of higher education in re-building disaster prone coastal communities http://uccnemmeli.unom.ac.in and also to plan for multi-institutional collaborative field demonstration projects in this location.

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