Presenter: John Holmes

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BUILDING RESILIENCE IN SMART VILLAGES
Date 30 January 2017
Presenter: John Holmes

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SMART VILLAGE
■Decentralised
infrastructure
■Connected by ICT
■Innovative remote
service provision
■Community
empowerment
■Economic & social
development

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SHOCKS
■Natural disasters
■Economic
■Conflict
■Health
■Infrastructure
failure

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ENHANCING PROSPERITY – ACCUMULATING ASSETS
Hand-to-
mouth
existence
A life with
margins
Accumulate
assets &
savings

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BUILDING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Training &
education
Sharing
information
Skills &
knowledge on
resilient
infrastructure
Energy & ICT

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CONNECTIVITY BRINGS ADVANCE WARNINGS AND
BETTER DISASTER RESPONSE
Communication
links
Advance
warnings
Disaster relief
Energy & ICT

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IMPROVED SERVICES IMPROVE POST DISASTER
WELFARE
Enhanced
health
facilities
Lights &
links
Post-
disaster
welfare
Energy & ICT

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ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS TO RESILIENCE
Social
capital
Environment
stewardship
Access to
finance
systems

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DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE
Infrastructure
design
Resilience

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NEPAL
■Infrastructure failure
■Social capital
■Traditional
knowledge
■Everyday resilience
■Build back better

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WEST AFRICA
■ 2014-16 Ebola
■ Lack of communications/
access to expertise
■ Delayed response
■ >11,000 lives
■ >22,000 orphans
■ >$2.2bn

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TUVALU
■ Stretched supply chains
■ Infrastructure damage
■ Appropriate technology
■ Capacity building
■ “Hardening” solutions

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SOME FINAL POINTS FROM THE SINGAPORE
WORKSHOP
■ None linear path to resilience
■ Need integrated approach
■ Sustainability of initiatives beyond project completion
■ Tension between standard approaches for scale-up and
responding to the unique circumstances of each community

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Thank you for your attention
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