13 May 2024 (Lima, Peru)
As host economy for 2024, Peru has been hosting a series of APEC Senior Officials' Meetings (SOM) this year. During the second senior officials' meeting (SOM2), the Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) took the opportunity to organize the 17th session of the Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum (SDMOF-17) on 13 May 2024 at Cerro Juli Convention Center in Lima, Peru. It adopted the theme, "Emergency Preparedness for Sustainable Growth and Sound Development with an Inclusive and Community Approach."
ADRC Project Director SUZUKI Koji, who co-chaired the EPWG from 2020-2023, headed the Japan delegation and introduced the project "Public private partnership for decision making support system with AI technology" in one of the SDMOF's sessions. At its core, this collaborative project advances the use of satellite big data and spatial artificial intelligence (AI) to model decision-making processes related to disaster risk reduction and management. In particular, Mr SUZUKI highlighted the following features of the project: 1) integration of social factors in applying scientific innovations, e.g., remote sensing technology, AI data analysis science, and digital twinning; 2) modeling of decision criteria for decision-making based on scientific facts, including collaboration between public and private sectors in verifying test results; and 3) real-time understanding of damage situations based on big data analysis and research prediction.
Participants of the SDMOF gained greater insights on the importance of cooperation through public-private partnerships to improve responsiveness with a focus on interoperability of information systems for decision making. Mr SUZUKI noted that the lead agency of this project is the Center for Environmental Remote Sensing of Chiba University with ADRC, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech), Oriental Consultant Global (OCG), Weather News INC., and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd as participating agencies. The project also partners with the Italian space agency, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA).
(2024/05/20 15:00)