7. Public Relations Activities

7-2. Participation in International Conferences andContribution to Magazines
In order to develop organic networks with international organizations and NGOs in addition tomember countries, ADRC attended the following international conferences and contributed tomagazines to increase its presence and to participate in discussions with relevant organizations on
international cooperation for disaster risk reduction.
Table 7-2-2-1

Participationin International Conferences

Conference
DateIORA Sustainable April
Development
20-21,
Programme
2015
Workshop

Venue
Tanzania(Dar EsSalaam)Sponsors
Indian Ocean
Rim Association(IORA) andPrime Minister's
Office of theGovernment ofthe United
Republic ofTanzania

AttendeeMr. Kouchi

Contributions
Presented that
ADRC and IRP
have long beenpromoting andimplementing
multilateral
cooperation on
disaster reduction
and recovery by
sharing Japan's
technologies,
experiences, andlessons as well as
knowledge
management

UNISDR Asia
Partnership (IAP)
MeetingJune
3-5,2015

Thailand(Bangkok)

United Nations
International
Strategy for
DisasterReduction(UNISDR)

Mr. Natori

Introduced ADRC'sactivities including
the research on thedissemination ofBCP among small /medium sizedenterprises (SMEs)
in the APEC
member economiesand the editing
guideline on BCP
for SMEs

Preparatory
meeting for
Sentinel Asia
Steering
CommitteeJune
30-July1,
2015

Singapore

Japan Aerospace
Exploration
Agency (JAXA)

Mr. Nakao
Mr. Ikeda

8th GEOSS Asia
Pacific
Conference t

September 9,
2015

CHINA(Beijing)

Group on Earth
Observations(GEO)Mr.
ArakidaGave a presentation,
covering theactivation ofemergency
observations and thesatisfaction ofsystem users basedon a questionnaire
surveyconducted on
Sentinel Asia
Gave a presentation
on Sentinel Asia73

Conference
8th GEOSS Asia
Pacific
Conference t

Date
September 9,2015

Venue
CHINA(Beijing)Sponsors
Group on Earth
Observations(GEO)

AttendeeMr.
ArakidaContributions
Gave a presentation
on Sentinel Asia

The First Steering
Committee (FSC)
Meeting of theSentinel Asia
Step3

October
13-15,2015

Thailand(Bangkok)

JAXA

Mr. Nakao
Mr. Ikeda

Gave twopresentations,covering theactivation ofemergency
observations and thesatisfaction ofsystem users basedon a questionnaire
survey, and new
emergency
observation request
format conducted onSentinel Asia

Sentinel Asia
Initiative Tsunami
Working Session
and the 22ndSession of theAsia-PacificRegional Space
Agency Forum(APRSAF-22)

Novem
ber
30-December4,
2015

Indonesia(Bali)

Gave twopresentations on theRole of ADRC in
Sentinel Asia andan introduction toADRC andcooperation withdisastermanagement
organizations in theSpecial Session on
Synergies in Space

Third Joint ProjectMeeting Team for
Sentinel Asia
STEP3(JPTM2016)

January
19-21,
2016

Sri Lanka(Colombo)

Indonesian
Ms.Kondo
Ministry ofMr. Nakao
Research,
Technology andHigher
Education(RISTEK-DIKTI), Indonesian
National
Institute of
Aeronautics
Space (LAPAN),
Japanese
Ministry ofEducation,
Culture, Sports,
Science andTechnology(MEXT), andJAXA
JAXA, theMr. Ikeda
DisasterManagement
Center (DMC)and International
Water
Management
Institute (IWMI)

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Gave twopresentations,covering theactivation ofemergency
observations and thesatisfaction ofsystem users
based on aquestionnaire
survey, and new
emergency
observation request
format conducted on
Sentinel Asia

7. Public Relations Activities

Table 7-2-3-1 Academic Conferences and Symposium
Conference
Special lecture of
Yamaguchi
university

Date
July 16,
2015

Venue
Japan(Yamaguchi)

Sponsors
Yamaguchi
University

AttendeeMr.
ArakidaContributions
Gave a presentation
on WCDRR andNepal earthquake

Annualconference forJapan Society for
Natural Disaster
Science
Advanced Land
Observing
Satellite-2“DAICHI-2” Data
Applications
Symposium

September 25,2015

Japan(Yamaguchi)

Japan Society
for Natural
Disaster Science

Mr. Ikeda

Gave a presentationof result regarding
tsunami disasterawareness researchNovem
ber 17,2015

Japan(Tokyo)

Japan Aerospace
Exploration
Agency (JAXA)

Mr. Nakao

Gave a presentation
on Case Study forSpace Technology
Utilizations for
Disaster Prevention

Table 7-2-4-1 Articles
Newspaper/Journal
Kindai Shoubou

DateJul. 2015

AuthorMr. Arakida
Ms. Kodama
Ms. Shiomi

Title
Asian Conference on
Disaster Reduction 2015and Public Forum of
WCDRR

Kindai Shoubou

Oct. 2015

Mr. Ikeda

Result regarding tsunami
disaster awarenessresearch

Kindai Shoubou

Dec. 2015

Mr. Nakao

Support activity of
Sentinel Asia forMyanmar flood 201575