Integrated Risk Management for Africa (IRMA)

Integrated Risk Management for Africa

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

IRMA KEY DATA The consortium INDUSTRY PLAYERS GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS NGO BEST-IN-CLASS RESEARCH

University of Luxembourg (UL), Luxembourg

Centre d e 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

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

IRMA Project – Participants

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.

IRMA Project goals

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

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.

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.

IRMA Expected Achievements

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

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

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

IRMA: the Mozambique Scenarios (Floods) UTICT FLOODS

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

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

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

IRMA Project Functional Structure

IRMA Project Structure

WP0: Project Management WP 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

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D0.1 Project presentation T0+3 D0.2 Project procedures: project management plan, reporting procedures, reporting templates, quality assurance plan, website. T0+3, T0+4 D0.3. 1 - 4 Periodic reports T0+10, T0+19, T0+28, T0+38 D0.4 Publishable Final Project Report T0+38

WP1: Requirements analysis WP 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

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D1.1 Methodology and questionnaire for risk management analysis T0+3 D1.2 Best practices and needs for risk management in Africa T0+6 D1.3 Report on the existing services and applications T0+6 D1.4.1 D1.4.2 Scenarios definition report Users requirements document T0+9, T0+12 T0+9, T0+12 D1.5 Scientific report on multi-risk methodologies T0+12

WP2: System Definition and Architecture WP 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

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D2.1 Technical Requirement Document T0+9, T0+18 D2.2 Report on the potential use of background and open source components T0+12 D2.3 Global Architecture Design Document T0+12, T0+18 D2.4 Specifications of the Data Acquisition sub-systems T0+6, T0+16, T0+30 D2.5 Specifications of Risk Management Applications T0+15 D2.6 Specifications of the Telecommunication sub-systems T0+15, T0+30 D2.7 Test and Validation Plan T0+18 D2.8 Methodology and development handbook T0+10

WP 3.1: Implementation and Integration of IRMA Core Services WP 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

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D3.1 Generic IRMA platform Test and Validation Report for the Generic IRMA platform IRMA generic platform "installation kit and deployment guidelines" T0+20 T0+22 T0+24

WP 3.2: Implementation and Integration of IRMA Communications Layer WP 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

t o integrate and test the communications systems

to integrate and test the Early Warning and Alerting system

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D3.2 Specification of the IRMA communications scenarios and preliminary architecture Report on IRMA mobility solution Report on IRMA recommended security and privacy protocols Report on IRMA survivability of networks in crisis situations Report on sensors/RFID solutions for disaster risk management Specification of the collaborative emergency platform Guidelines for the deployment of Telecommunications infrastructure T0+18 T0+18 T0+18 T0+18 T0+24 T0+12 T0+21

WP 4.0: Tests, trials, validation and final demo WP 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

WP 4.1: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in Senegal WP Leader: CSE Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D4.1.1 Software component T0+25 D4.1.2 Integration test and validation plan T0+25 D4.1.3 Integration test and validation report (thematic platform) T0+27 D4.1.4 Test report for the communications infrastructure T0+27 D4.1.5 Integration test and validation report (full scenario) T0+28 D4.1.6 Evaluation report for the demonstration T0+31

WP 4.2: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in Cameroon WP Leader: ENSP Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D4.2.1 Software component T0+26 D4.2.2 Integration test and validation plan T0+26 D4.2.3 Integration test and validation report (thematic platform) T0+28 D4.2.4 Test report for the communications infrastructure T0+28 D4.2.5 Integration test and validation report (full scenario) T0+29 D4.2.6 Evaluation report for the demonstration T0+32

WP 4.3: Implementation and demonstration of the risk management in Mozambique WP Leader: UTICT Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D4.3.1 Software component T0+27 D4.3.2 Integration test and validation plan T0+27 D4.3.3 Integration test and validation report (thematic platform) T0+29 D4.3.4 Test report for the communications infrastructure T0+29 D4.3.5 Integration test and validation report (full scenario) T0+30 D4.3.6 Evaluation report for the demonstration T0+33

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 p ropose the IRMA architecture to standardisation bodies as a best practice in the field

to organise train-the-trainer workshop

Deliverable N° Deliverable name Deadline D5.1 Dissemination and Use plan T0+6, T0+18, T0+30 D5.2 Report on standardization activities T0+12, T0+24 D5.3 Technical update needs of African partners and targeted countries Technical material (general topics) Technical material (implementation oriented) Technical sessions report T0+9 T0+15 T0+28 T0+35

IRMA Work Plan