LINGAYEN–The Disaster management-useful technology GeoCloud Integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) will be pilot-tested in the country through a test-run on November 9 in Dagupan City, Lingayen and Binmaley.

This was decided by a steering committee of the project that held its meeting last July 26 at the Pangasinan Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) Operations Center in Lingayen.

Project team leader Noriaki Ishibashi from the GeoCloud developer, Informatix Inc., said the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-funded project is hitting target dates leading to the 10-month formal run with full-blown operation following afterwards.

Ishibashi added Pangasinan is the most ideal model to run the technology owing to its being disaster-prone balanced by its cooperative, skilled personnel and administration, under Gov. Amado I. Espino, III, who play crucial part in the continuity of the project.

Through the system, LGUs can access, utilize and disseminate crucial data resulting in a more comprehensive disaster risk reduction and management in all of its phases – preparedness, response and rehabilitation.

A three-part training is scheduled for the participating LGUs’ Integrated GIS personnel in handling the system: the first part, this October 3-14; and the third part, June 14-18 next year. The second part will take place in Japan this November for a study of three cities there where the use of Integrated GIS have long been established. (PIO)

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