Waste Hotline: using GIS tools to reduce public health risks

http://preventionweb.net/globalplatform/2011/programme/ignitestage/
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To reduce public health risks arising from wastes generated from IDP camps in Port-au-Prince, the Waste Hotline project incorporates online, multi-lingual GIS functionality. As a control system, it allows the camps themselves to request waste collection and then manages the collection contractors with an in-built voucher system for payments. This efficient capture, exchange and utilisation of data provides the best decision support, communication, and collaboration possible. The presentation will be a 15mins live presentation of the Waste Hotline GIS tool in realtime using actual activities ongoing in Port-au-Prince.

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Science & Technology

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• ignite stage
• presentation
• climate change
• global platform
• disaster resilience
• DRR
• disaster risk reduction
• UNISDR
• geneva
• tuesday
• 10 may 2011
• GPDRR
• Robert Watts
• waste
• waste hotline
• GIS
• public health
• Haiti
• Port-au-Prince
• 2010
• earthquake
• IDPs