Joint Research Project on the Disaster Mitigating Information Sharing Platform and Its Application to a Test Field

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For the purpose of reducing disaster damage by applying information sharing technologies, the research on disaster reduction using crisis-adaptive information sharing technologies was commenced in July, 2004, as a three year joint project composed of a government office and agency, national research institutes, universities, lifeline utilities, a NPO and a private company. In this project, the disaster mitigating information sharing platform which is effective to disaster response activities especially for local governments was developed. The platform is composed of frameworks of both information systems and information contents. The development of the information sharing protocol, database and various information systems and tools was conducted to build a framework of information systems. The research on standardization of information items and spatial data processed through the platform also was successfully performed, on the other hand, as a framework of information contents processed on the platform. Then, the research went into the stage of constructing a prototype of the platform by integrating an individual system and tool. Finally, the prototype of the disaster mitigating information sharing platform developed in the research project was applied to Mitsuke City in Niigata Prefecture, Japan as a field test and was proved to be effective to disaster response activities for not only the city but the Cabinet Office, the Fire Defense Agency and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport as central government agencies, Niigata Prefecture as local government and lifeline companies, etc.

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