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The MOU would strengthen cross-border catastrophe mitigation capabilities in the face of challenges posed by local weather change
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By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction on Thursday final week renewed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the US Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The memorandum was signed by heart director Hongey Chen (陳宏宇) and PDC government director Ray Shirkhodai.
The Honolulu-based company, operated by the University of Hawaii, has assisted different nations in enhancing early warning and emergency response capabilities through the use of catastrophe threat science, geospatial info programs and decision-support instruments, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) mentioned in a press release yesterday.
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“The PDC’s DisasterAWARE platform has become a critical support system for international humanitarian assistance and response decisionmaking,” the council mentioned, including that it could present real-time and synthetic intelligence-enhanced catastrophe info and good alerts.
It was the fourth MOU signed by the two companies since they established a proper partnership in 2008, the council added.
The MOU would deal with deepening the partnership between the two companies in early warning for compound disasters, threat and vulnerability evaluation, know-how and decisionmaking help, and capability constructing for catastrophe prevention and preparedness, the council mentioned.
Chen mentioned the settlement would assist strengthen Taiwan’s cross-border catastrophe mitigation capabilities in the face of challenges posed by local weather change, including that Taiwan would additionally be capable to share info with its world companions by means of the MOU.
Shirkhodai mentioned that the two companies have extremely complementary strengths, including that the partnership would mix collected info for compound disasters, and in depth expertise of monitoring and responding to pure disasters.
Separately, communications app Line mentioned that it’s collaborating with the Ministry of Digital Affairs to fight fraud dedicated by means of impersonating public figures.
The messaging app is the hottest in Taiwan, with 22 million energetic customers.
To develop the rip-off alert system, the ministry first offered an inventory of protected public figures, the firm mentioned.
People would see a pop-up alert when unfamiliar accounts with the identical names as these of public figures try to provoke a chat, add them as a good friend or embrace them in a gaggle chat, and that customers can block and report these suspicious accounts, it mentioned.
If customers select “Yes, I know,” one other pop-alert would seem to ask if they really know this particular person, the firm mentioned, including that the perform is obtainable for cell phone customers who’ve up to date to Line model 26.7.