2. The moment an inside joke for the TED Prize Acceptance Speech became our inescapable name.

3. Disaster Response and Civil-Military Cooperation
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
CEO, InSTEDD

4. This is the
standard guide.

5. Comprehensive
reference.
200 pages of detail.
Free download.
And I have a copy for you.

6. “Stability Operations…shall be given
priority comparable to combat operations…”
US DoD Directive
28 November 2005
“We believe that preventing wars
is as important as winning wars.”
US National Maritime Strategy Statement
October 2007

7. Smart Power in Humanitarian Support
Power projection
Irregular conflicts, reactive transformation
Millennium Challenge 2002
CIA 2015 Report
Resource Wars
Contextual Intelligence
Afghanistan Ring Road
Tajik Road construction
Chinese, Iranian, Turkish
Disaster Response in Failed States

8. In my view, collaboration
Refugee trauma management
Katrina response
In my view, collaboration
in disaster response is the single most critical unmet need.
Cholera outbreak

9. What disaster information flow requires (technically)…
Collaboration
Directory
Federation
Social Networking
Virtual Teaming
Reliable
Messaging
Social Metadata
Decision Support
Geospatial Visualization
Autonomous Agents
Predictive Modeling
Distributed Workflow
Alerting
Report Generation
Analysis
Data Fusion
Anomaly Detection
Complex Adaptive Systems
Network Analysis
Text Mining
Spatio-temporal Analysis
Sensor Integration
Information Flow
Forms Design
Shared Ontologies
Schema Evolution
Translation
Deep Field Collection
Geocoding
Mesh Synchronization
Storage
Abstraction
Offline Work
Conflict Resolution
SMS Integration
Security
Identity
Adapters & Transformers

10. Likely partners in a disaster response:UN
DPKO (18 current Peacekeeping Operations)
UNDP (166 of 192 countries)
UN-OCHA
UNHCR, WFP, WHO, UNICEF
NGO
44,000 and counting
ICRC
Prisoners and disrupted families
Afghanistan: 88 intl /1200 national staff
IFRC
World Bank, IMF, DFID, ECHO, USAID, GTZ…

11. Casual, distilled
10 Commandments
20 Recommendations
30 Advisories

12. A subset of recognized Civ-Mil disaster response needs:
Language support
Independent and sustainable power
Tracking of people, processes, and things
Visualized information distributed broadly
Sustainable transition plans with milestones
Communication one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one
Collaborative processes between agencies and organizations
Operational guidelines and organizational charter accessibility
Objective indicators (and impact metrics) so we know we’re progressing
Information collection, analysis, and dissemination, vertical and horizontal

13. Information flow is almost as vital as water

14. “Nothing worked until you guys arrived” Six-fold communication
redundancy
has sometimes
proved
inadequate, yet…
“Nothing
worked until
you guys
arrived”
Navy Theater Surgeon (Forward)
Belle Chasse, New Orleans
Joint Task Force Katrina

15. Climate Change Perhaps the dominant medium-term national security
issue and disaster
response preparedness
requirement.
Now made more
acute by the
global economic crisis.
September 2008

16. Population affected by water disasters (millions/year) UNDP, 2007

18. Disasters by Origin 1970-2005 Origin 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000-2005
Water
776
1498
2034
2135
Geological
124
232
325
233
Biological 64
170
361
420
Total
964
1900
2720
2788
“Data Against Natural Disasters”, UN-OCHA, 2008

19. Tajikistan Compound Crisis Natural disasters (5)
Socio-economic loss (40%)
Emerging infections
Climate Change
Religious extremism
Narcotic trafficking
Poverty / Brain Drain
Post-Soviet disintegration

20. Far beyond scenario planning
Singapore MINDEF
Dave Snowdon’s
Cynefin model of
System Dynamics
Far beyond scenario planning

21. Ghani-Lockhart Reconstruction Standards
42. Using the Lockhart Framework for failed State reconstruction and the obligations of a State to its citizenry, employ appropriate resources (e.g. sociologists and reporters) to assist in determining the frequency, style, and content of media messages designed for information exchange, reassurance, and crisis management participation, delivered to a population under pressure. The Framework items listing perceived State obligations are listed below.
Fixing Failed States

22. Collaboration tools
Climate change impact
Cynefin and Complexity models
Civ-Mil Field Coordinator Handbook
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP +1 – 360 – 621 – 3592 InSTEDD.org