HazInfo Paper Accepted for the 1st WRECOM Conference in Rome, Italy
Paper titled “Community-based Hazard Warnings in Rural Sri Lanka: Performance of a Last-Mile Message Relay”, authors – Gordon Gow (Associate Professor, Faculty of Extensions, University of Alberta,...
View ArticleAdvance publicity for HazInfo dissemination meeting, Dhaka, 25 October 2007
:The Daily Star: Internet Edition Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest community-based organisation, and LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy think-tank, collaborated on a 32-village pilot project that sought to...
View ArticleHazInfo Canadian Researcher speaks at the 1st WRECOM Conference in Rome
Gordon Gow, a lead researcher in the Last-Mile Hazard Warning System (LM-HWS) Pilot (HazInfo project), presented the paper titled – “Community-based Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka: Performance of...
View ArticleHazInfo Dissemination Workshop in Bangladesh on October 25th
On October 25, 2007, LIRNEasia will hold its first regional dissemination workshop for the “Evaluating Last Mile Hazard Information Dissemination” (HazInfo) pilot project at the Bangladesh University...
View ArticleDhaka HazInfo Dissemination Workshop | October 25, 2007 at BUET
On October 25, 2007, LIRNEasia’s Rohan Samarajiva, Nuwan Waidyanatha and Natasha Udu-gama traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to present findings from the “Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information...
View ArticleDialog/U-of-Moratuwa/Microimage Early Warning Innovations used in HazInfo...
Paper titled: Challenges of Optimizing Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for SMS based GSM Devices in Last-Mile Hazard Warnings in Sri Lanka (authors N. Waidyanatha – LIRNEasia, D. Dias – University of...
View ArticleSecond HazInfo Dissemination Workshop held in India
On Monday, November 19th, Rohan Samarajiva, Nuwan Waidyanatha, and Natasha Udu-gama of LIRNEasia, along with Menake Wijesinghe of Sarvodaya‘s Community Disaster Management Centre went to New Delhi,...
View ArticleHazInfo Dissemination Workshops wrap up in Jakarta
On 5 March 2008, LIRNEasia in partnership with the Indonesian Institute for Disaster Preparedness (IIDP) will hold the third and final “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-based Last-Mile...
View ArticleLIRNEasia holds final HazInfo Workshop in Jakarta
Yesterday, 5 March 2008, LIRNEasia, with its Indonesian partner, the Indonesian Institute for Disaster Preparedness (IIDP), held the final HazInfo workshop at the Hotel Borobudur in Jakarta, Indonesia....
View ArticleSpecial issue of SouthAsiaDisasters.net carries LIRNEasia contribution
The special issue on “Community-based last-mile early warning system” carried on its back page the following contribution from Rohan Samarajiva (despite the title of the publication, it’s not possible...
View ArticleCONFERENCE PAPER: Understanding communities using mobile network big data
Madhawa, K., Lokanathan, S., Samarajiva, R., & Maldeniya, D. (2015). Understanding communities using mobile network big data, CPRSouth 2015. The post CONFERENCE PAPER: Understanding communities...
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