publish date :
2024-10-23
On October 22, 2024, the second of the 10th Anniversary of Graduate School of Disaster Management Lecture Series began. Associate Research Fellow Kai-Yuan Ko of the Center for Climate, Weather, and Disaster Research at the University of Taiwan was invited to give a fascinating lecture to the Institute's students and faculty members, in which he shared his observations from the three sections of “Utilization of Volunteer Workers in Japan,” “Operation of Sheltering Places” and “Utilization of Volunteer Workers in Taiwan”.
I would like to thank Associate Research Fellow Ko for his selfless sharing of what he saw and learned from his visit to the volunteer center in Japan. After the typhoon, the disaster area needs a lot of manpower to assist in the post-disaster cleanup, recovery and reconstruction work, and the volunteer centers, as a medium for integrating manpower and materials, allow volunteers to donate their time and energy to help the victims and allow the disaster area to complete the recovery work as soon as possible, which is a worthwhile experience for us to learn from.
Associate Research Fellow Ko also shared that he and his research team worked with the local government to refine the process and management of the evacuation shelters, utilizing the intelligent sheltering system to manage the number of people to be housed and the amount of supplies to be distributed, and combining the strength of civilian volunteer groups to bring the opening and operation of the evacuation shelters on track within a short period of time after the disaster.
Finally, Associate Research Fellow Ko mentioned that disaster prevention workers are an important part of the local government's disaster prevention operations. Whether it is pre-disaster mitigation, preparation, disaster response, or post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, there are many tasks that they can do to help the government agencies. Nowadays, there are many disaster prevention officers, and if they can initiate and operate independently, it will undoubtedly be a great help for public departments to cope with disaster risks.