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Seeking
the best presentations about resilience
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IAEM Asia & IAEM Oceania want to have the best presentations about
corporate, community and personal resilience at their Asia-Oceania Resilience (AOR) conference, 5-6 October
2010. Submit a video clip of yourself making any
presentation, or just suggest a topic. Presentation submissions are on the AOR YouTube® channel where visitors can vote on them,
helping to shape the conference program.
AOR attendance is limited
to 250 individuals in resilience professions security, emergency management,
crisis management, business continuity management, risk management, human
resources, public affairs and disaster relief. The two-day conference fee
is SGD $495 for IAEM members, SGD $645 for non-members. (How much is that in your
money?) Special room rates at the Parkroyal Hotel on Kitchener, the conference hotel, in Singapore’s Little India.
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Conference
Sponsorships AOR has three (3) sponsorship tiers- Emerald, Jade and Opal -
and two high-visibility options to label the conference delegate bags
and credentials. Sponsors may exhibit at tabletop displays in the
conference venue, with direct access to all conference participants.
Download the Sponsorship brochure here or write to Chris Tan at IAEM Asia.
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IAEM
Asia on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
Lots of ways to follow IAEM in Asia. We have an IAEM Asia Facebook page with announcements and photographs of members in Asia. We also have a IAEM Asia LinkedIn group, with separate sub-groups for
each country in the Asia Council. And doesn’t everyone have a Twitter account? IAEM Asia has one; sign up on the IAEM Asia web site to follow our news for emergency
managers in Asia.
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Good
Conferences
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Standards,
and standards for standards
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You
have to love a risk management standard called “fifty-fifty”.
And all three (3) parts of Australia & New Zealand’s proposed AS/NZ
5050 standard for risk management are available free.
Part 1 is the Specification (what to do, “shall”
do this, “may” do that); Part 2 is the Practice (how to do it; “should” and
why); Part 3 is called Assurance (controls & verification, and BCM audit
guidance, which is a first for a BCM standard). The comment period
ended last year; tune in to New Zealand or Australia for a final release.
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The Sphere Handbook lists minimum standards for disaster response
by NGO’s, governments and relief agencies. 400 organizations in
80 countries contributed in many languages to eight common standards
(participation of the affected individuals in response planning, for
example) and specific standards in water & sanitation, food, shelter
and health services. The Sphere Project also published a Humanitarian Charter in
2004 that expresses the commitment of relief agencies to meet the Sphere
minimum standards.
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Not
enough standards for you? The ISO
31000:2009 standard was released in November “to harmonize risk
management processes in existing and future standards.” A standard for standards?
That sounds like a tough sell. The Institute of Risk Management warned that ISO 31000
“is not intended as a standard against which an organisation can be
certified.” So, maybe just wait until you hear ISO 31000 mentioned
about 10 times, then you’ll know it’s important enough to buy it for USD 110.
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Pecha
kucha presentations
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Disaster
recovery on the moon
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Did
you see the disaster movie "2012"?
I did, and reluctantly concluded I wouldn't be able to write off the cost
of the ticket as a professional development expense.
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Soon after, the U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that they'd found water on earth's moon --
far and away the most significant discovery in outer space in my lifetime--
and we appear to have been asleep in our seats. Have we become so myopic,
or so jaded by advancements in technology (many of which resulted from
America's exploration of space in the 1960's), that we have lost our sense
of wonder?
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If I
were seriously considering the consequences of the entire planet being flooded,
I'd definitely be looking for a recovery site. I wouldn't have considered
the moon at any time in the last thousand years because it was purportedly
unfit for human habitation. Discovery of water on the surface changes all
that.
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Copyright
© 2010 IAEM in Asia
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