1. 1 STAR-TIDES Sustainable Support to Stressed Populations September 2009 Lin Wells www.star-tides.net

2. 2 Who Global network of interested participants –Australasia to Latin America to Northern Europe Public-Private, Whole of Government, Trans-national American Red Cross Johns Hopkins University US Marine Corps Engineers Without Borders Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Hexayurt Project (Netherlands) National Defense University San Diego State University

3. 3 What Knowledge-Sharing about potential solutions –T ransportable –I nfrastructures for –D evelopment and –E mergency –S upport Support Decision-Makers and those working in the Field

4. 4 Heating/Lighting/ Cooling Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Situational Awareness Shelter Power Integrated Cooking Water and Sanitation UNCLASSIFIED Some individual infrastructure items…

5. 5 When Post-War Post-Disaster Impoverished Short-Term (disasters) or Long Term (Refugees)

6. 6 Where Domestic or foreign –Military involved, or not

7. 7 Why To meet needs of local populations Solutions useful to and sustainable by them In their worlds, not ours

8. 8 How Integrated planning Knowledge repository All info shared via www.star-tides.netwww.star-tides.net Radical inclusion

9. 9 Insights (1) Capabilities alone aren’t enough Also need to:

10. 10 Insights (2) Develop social networks and build trust

11. 11 Insights (3) Turn policy and doctrine into effective field operating procedures

12. 12 Insights (4) Understand Legal and Regulatory Constraints –Can you get it through customs? –Can you leave it behind? –Are there export controls? –…….

13. 13 Insights (5) Understand resourcing –Average stay in a refugee camp > 7 years Not like 1st 60 days after earthquake –Possible funding sources Govt stockpiles and contracts Non-govt stockpiles and contracts Commercial supply chains Empowered civilians

14. 14 Insights (6) Train Exercise Educate –Turn lessons observed into lessons learned

15. 15 Distributed, Renewable Power Village Phone Distributed Essential Services (DES) VSAT SAT Radio SAT TV TelekioskWiFi WiMax Internet Cafe Cell Provider Grameen Bank-like Extension of Cell Access to Rural Areas Range Extension Antenna for Single Cell Phone Community Tower Cell Community Radio Cell Provider ( M/W WiFi WiMax Internet Access ISP Provider Telekiosk Wireless Users Internet Cafe Wireless Users ) ) Governance & Rule of Law AgriculturePublic HealthEducationClean WaterLighting Business Development ) MicrohydroWind Cell Phone TV & Radio InternetSatellite Solar Local Geothermal Training to Support Econ Growth TV Receivers Current Activities (1)

16. 16 Current Activities (2) Latin America –Build Partner Nation Capacity –Through US & partner nation mil-mil cooperation –Services based on situational awareness, comms, power –Also support to international HA/DR

17. 17 Current Activities (3) Feb 09 – solar, wind, hybrid power observations with NPS and SOCOM Aug 09 –GIS mashup, with NRT updates: Development Seed, Open Street Map, Sahana, MindTel, Google, InSTEDD and others –Contributed to election monitoring in Afghanistan Field Experimentation

18. 18 Upcoming Activities Fort McNair Fall Demo, Oct 6-9 Pentagon Display, week of Oct 13-15 El Capitan NIUSR event, Oct 22-24 Camp Roberts Field Experiments, early Nov –Expanded GIS & UAV Integration

19. 19 Really Exciting Stuff!!! Come join us www.star-tides.net

20. 20 POCs Lin Wells: WellsL3@ndu.edu, 202.436.6354WellsL3@ndu.edu Walker Hardy: HardyW2@ndu.edu, 202.685.3046HardyW2@ndu.edu Melissa Sinclair: SinclairM@ndu.edu, 202.685.2503SinclairM@ndu.edu Don Smith: dbsmith3@gmail.com, 913.205.4379dbsmith3@gmail.com www.star-tides.net