The paper focuses on the information technology infrastructure required for the evaluation and monitoring of risk relating to floods in South Africa. It may be argued that in the context of developing countries, flood preparedness is more valuable than the actual response to a flood disaster. The paper looks at this flood preparedness in the context of informal and semi-formal settlements. An information technology infrastructure is proposed that will allow decision makers to be alerted to possible flood high risk areas, and in so doing maximise preparedness
Reference:
Van Zyl, TL, Parbhoo, C, Moodley, D et al. 2009. IT infrastructure enabling open access for flood risk preparedness in South Africa. Proceedings of the 6th International ISCRAM 2009 Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, 10 May 2009, pp 7
Van Zyl, T., Parbhoo, C., Moodley, D., Cwela, B., Umuhoza, D., Shabangu, P., & Vahed, A. (2009). IT infrastructure enabling open access for flood risk preparedness in South Africa. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3424
Van Zyl, TL, C Parbhoo, D Moodley, B Cwela, D Umuhoza, P Shabangu, and Anwar Vahed. "IT infrastructure enabling open access for flood risk preparedness in South Africa." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3424
Van Zyl T, Parbhoo C, Moodley D, Cwela B, Umuhoza D, Shabangu P, et al, IT infrastructure enabling open access for flood risk preparedness in South Africa; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3424 .
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