AI-based simulator project presented for decision making in emergencies
Representatives of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the National Emergency Commission and Civil Defense participated in a workshop to socialize proposals for improving the simulator that seeks to respond to climatic eventualities
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the National Emergency Commission (CNE) and the Civil defense They held the first ASER-IA Project socialization workshop, which involves the development of an artificial intelligence-based simulator for decision-making in risk management and climate emergency scenarios in the Dominican Republic.
The project that seeks to respond to the effects of climate change in the country was funded by the Coalition for the Development of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an initiative of the Government of India to address disaster-related risk issues, especially in small island developing states.
Charles Sanley, INTEC Research Director, explained that the project focuses on developing an advanced element based on artificial intelligence that allows the country to evaluate climate risks more effectively and make more informed decisions to avoid their impacts.
“This will not only strengthen our emergency response capacity, but will also contribute to the development of more demanding and sustainable public policies. Remember that we are an island. The Dominican Republic, as a nation vulnerable to extreme weather phenomena, urgently needs tools of this caliber,” the director explained.
Ramu Abbagani, Indian ambassador en the dominican republicHe added that “the simulator integrates various data related to climate variants, historical occurrences of disasters, infrastructure vulnerabilities, demographics, population and economic indicators to determine the advective and subjective risk associated with climate change.”
The results of this simulator will be used by the National Prevention, Mitigation and Response System, as well as by the Integrated System National Information Centre, a technical-scientific instrument that houses and systematizes the country's disaster risk information.
Yanelba Abreu, Civil Defense Project Manager He added that artificial intelligence is currently an alternative to make predictions, management and response to disasters visible. “With artificial intelligence, we can analyze, do simulations, provide data in real time, and we can even extract from social networks what people are commenting and publishing in order to pay attention to those places where a greater number of damages could occur,” he said.
John Salas, President of the CNE y Executive Director of Civil Defense, reported that the project is the result of the efforts of different institutions in the face of threats from climate change.
“It is an exercise that begins with you, with the institutions that have to respond in emergency situations, and today we have this great challenge, humanity is forced to seek effective and timely solutions. Early management and the development of a tool like this, which we intend to become a key piece to support risk management in our country, and why not in the world, becomes the first step towards integrating artificial intelligence and risk management,” he said.
Ulises Jauregui, INTEC research professor and project coordinator, expressed the interest of the organizations in working on the simulator with the feedback of other CNE specialists, taking into account that, with the results of the dissemination session, they will optimize the operation of the model. “The first stage of the simulator, which we have a great dream of, is precisely to work on the prediction of floods,” he said.