MAKING SMART COMMUNITIES RESILIENT

Recent disasters locally and worldwide have demonstrated the difficulties in mounting fast, coordinated, and successful responses as well as the importance of incorporating citizens in preparing, responding, and communicating. The Disaster Management Initiative (DMI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Silicon Valley, develops open, interoperable solutions using smart phones, mobile devices, fast ubiquitous communications, social media, wireless sensors, crowd-sourcing, and collaborative information environments to empower and integrate individual citizens, community groups, first responders, and emergency managers. Recently the DMI has prototyped and demonstrated new smartphone systems, such as the Survivable Social Network, for structured social communication when the cell telecom infrastructure is damaged. The speaker will describe some of this work.

Speaker: Dr. Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley