Irma Project Profile V 2.2

Integrated Risk Management for Africa

IRMA key data
European Commission funded Research 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
9 EU & 6 African 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 - Partners

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal
Centre Royal de Télédétection Spatiale (CRTS), Morocco
Institut National des Postes & Telecommunications (INPT) - Agence Nationale de Réglementation 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) (Subcontractors: INGC & INAM), Mozambique
IRMA Project – Partners

The IRMA Consortium

Dr. Tomaz Salomao Executive Secretary, SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC), Mozambique
Chamindra K. I. de Silva, Sahana Project Lead and Director, Lanka Software Foundation, Sri Lanka
Sálvano Briceño, Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction UN/ISDR, Palais des Nations, Switzerland www.unisdr.org
Salomão J. Manhiça. Chairman, INCM (Postal & Telecom Regulator) Director, ICT Policy, Mozambique
Pier Giorgio Marchetti EOP-GR, Service Support and Ground Segment Technology Office European Space Agency Frascati Italy http://earth.esa.int/rtd http://www.esa.int
Frank Zeppenfeldt, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Thomas Usländer, Group Manager, Fraunhofer IITB - ORCHESTRA and SANY
Tom De Groeve EC Joint Research Centre , GDACS Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
IRMA Advisory Board

Cameroun:
Ludovic Etoundi (GTS - Cameroun);
Philippe Bisseck (Ministère de l'urbanisme - Cameroun);
Roger Fotso, CEO de Saconets which is the main company implementing Internet WiMax and offering Thuraya phone services in Cameroun
Morocco
La protection Civile (Ministère de l’intérieur)
Direction de la surveillance et de la prévention des risques (Département de l’Environnement)
Sénégal
Mr Idrissa DIALLO (Direction de la Protection Civile, Ministère de l’Intérieure)
Mr Pape NDIAYE (Direction des Eaux et Forêts, Ministère de l’Environnement)
Mr Mamina CAMARA (Direction de la Méteorologie Nationale)
Mr Pape Waly Guèye, Coordinateur de la CEPS (Cellule d’Etude, de Planification et de Suivi) du Ministère de l’Environnement
Mr Mamadou Kassé, Conseiller Technique du Ministre de la Communication
Mme Ndèye Maimouna DIOP DIAGNE direction des télécommunications
Somebody from the Direction des Parcs Nationaux, it’ll depend on pilot tests site
Mozambique
Salomão J. Manhiça. Chairman, INCM (Postal & Telecom Regulator) Director, ICT Policy, Mozambique (also member of the IRMA Advisory Board)
Edmundo Monteiro Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra and visiting professor at the ISCTEM private university where he teaches computer networking and security
South Africa
Dewald van Niekerk, Director: African Centre for Disaster Studies, South Africa
Deshendran Moodley, Head of Department Computer Science, UKZN, South Africa
Geoff Pegram, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
IRMA NATIONAL OBSERVERS BOARDS

IRMA Vision
An innovative use of advanced ICT has the capacity to provide at a low cost, very effective tools to improve substantially environmental risk management effectiveness even when the data infrastructure and or the telecommunication infrastructure is limited.
In addition, the IRMA experience will pave the way to a range of new applications in support of regional development such as:
Environmental management
Regional planning
Next generation IP based networks

IRMA Project Goals
To develop and validate a state-of-the-art ICT service platform designed to support the management of a wide range of environmental risks during all risk phases from risk assessment to recovery
To integrate existing generic services provided by international organizations
To develop additional local services
To assess the value of IRMA by implementing five disaster scenarios validated by the stakeholders
To make a substantial part of the IRMA platform available as open source free software

IRMA technical approach (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 intégration des services Fonctions transverses Plateforme technologique Geophysiques Innondations Feux urbains Environment/Santé industriels Technique Fonctionel Organisationel Financier RISQUES ATTRIBUTS des SERVICES SYSTEME de SYSTEMES PHASES Analyse Prévention Alerte Réponse Restauration Intégration Du cycle

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

More information on
http://www.irma.lu
Contact details:
Guy Weets - guy.weets@uni.lu
Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel
[email_address]
+ 352 4666 44 5263

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