Transcript Climate Change some Caribbean Challenges Roderick

Climate Change some
Caribbean Challenges
Roderick Sanatan
University of the West Indies
Jamaica
ITU/CITIC
Symposium on ICTs and Climate
Change
Quito, 8-10 July 2009
International
Telecommunication
Union
Map of the Caribbean
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Caribbean Context
Biodiversity
Flora and fauna
Forest cover 70%
Indigenous people
WSIS Social inclusion
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Vulnerability Index
High – natural disasters
e.g. The Bahamas – No.10
Regional Initiatives – using ICTs
Seismic Centre - Volcanoes
CDERA – Weather
5Cs - Belize modelling environment
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Access to technology
Broadband – especially wireless
 MPC
 Rural access
 New applications of mesh technology
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Strategy
 People awareness through ICTs
 Policy value
 Environment management
 ICT policy
 Applications – measurement technologies
 New studies – carbon audit
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