2nd International Conference on the Information Technologies in Disaster Risk Reduction - ITDRR 2017
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2nd International Conference on the Information Technologies in Disaster Risk Reduction - ITDRR 2017 began its work in the Large Conference Hall of UNWE. At the opening of the Forum attended Prof. Dr. Dimitar Velev, Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee and Director of the UNWE Scientific Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Venelin Boshnakov, UNWE Secretary General for Science, Alexander Dzhartov, Director of Critical Infrastructure, Prevention and Control Directorate to the Fire Safety and Civil Protection Directorate-General of the Ministry of Interior, Prof. Yuko Murayama, Vice President of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and Chairwoman of the IFIP Domain Committee of the Conference, Chief Assist. Dr. Georgy Penchev from the National and Regional Security Department, representatives of academic community from 12 countries – Japan, Republic of Korea, France, Italy, Indonesia, etc.
On behalf of Nikolay Nikolov, Director of Fire Safety and Civil Protection Directorate-General of the Ministry of Interior the guests were greeted by Alexander Dzhartov. He pointed out that the climate changes would lead to more and more natural disasters and the information technology could help in the process of risk analysis and measurement as well as in the information processing.
As Director of the UNWE Scientific Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction Prof. Dr. Dimitar Velev made a brief presentation about the Center and emphasized on the international members participating in its Consultative Board. He presented the objectives, tasks and activity of the Center in the field of wider use of information technology in disaster risk reduction.
Prof. Dr. JunSeok Hwang, Professor of Information Technology at the Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, delivered the first keynote speech on the Future Perspective of ICT Policy and Strategy for Disaster Risk reduction with Smart Disaster Safety System.
