Monday, July 15, 2019

CfPs: International Conference on Disaster Resilient Smart Cities | 10-13 December, New Delhi

International Conference on Disaster Resilient Smart Cities
10-13 December 2019
at JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, India
Organized by Special Centre for Disaster Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Key Issues in building Disaster Resilience in Smart City Discourse
So what is to be set right in a smart city plan for cities in India and rest of the world? Some key issues have been identified as follows:
1. Smart Disaster Management Machinery: Disaster Management Network, Legal framework, Meteorological Organizations, Geo-physical monitoring stations, Remote Sensing authorities. Training, response mechanism, sensitivity to duty, transparency, information dissemination, coordination, respect for life.
2. Smart Technology Solutions: digital innovations in traffic, Early Warning Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in city alert and rescue operations.
3. Smart Service Delivery: basic human needs such as water, health, education, common service centres, Local Governance & Telecommunication network to receive alerts, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in city alert and rescue operations.
4. Crime Management: Enlightened policing, corruption-free Police Stations, anti-trafficking stations, cyber cells of police to handle human and non-human distress calls, ethics and integrity of city administration.
5. Social and community preparedness: Shelter homes, hospitals for human and non-human populations, policies for animal birth control, a trained and coordinated city governance to manage food, water, timely rescue, machine operation training to remove fallen trees, mananimal conflicts, water and food scarcity.

Paper Abstracts & How to participate?
1. This conference will have only invited papers from top experts across the world's smart city networks. Please send a list of your work in this field as we may miss out some good work and brilliant experts we still do not know about.
2. Those interested in presenting their upcoming work and studies, who wish to seek knowledge based opinion and inputs are requested to send abstracts in 1000 words with a title, objectives, central idea, description of the study and direction which it expects to achieve.
3. PhD scholars who have recently completed their work on disaster resilience of smart cities or are about to submit their thesis are welcome to send their abstracts as in point 2 above.
Last date for submission of abstracts/write-ups: 30th September through email to jnu.scdr@gmail.com

Financial Support and Accommodation:
Only collaborators (Netexplo University Network, UNAB, ICSSR, NIDM) and invited foreign experts are offered full support and accommodation. Other individual participants may get accommodation support and partial travel funding depending upon available resources and the value inputs of their work to the conference theme. This information on the amount of support may be sent by the end of September. An administrative coordination team may look into the support requirements of participants.


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