As of August 5, the two stickied posts in that subreddit are market warnings. One post is the vulnerability disclosure of both marketplaces. The second, though, is a post titled “DHL Market – Current problems – Consider avoiding right now.” The vulnerabilities were serious enough to warrant the removal of the formerly stickied post about a significant number of Dream vendor accounts that the Dutch National Police controlled.
Isola 2000 is located just 90 minutes from Nice airport in the Alpes Maritimes, and only 10 minutes from the French – Italian border at the Col de la Lombarde.
The resort was built in the 1970s and much of the original architecture remains; the main building houses the ‘Galerie Marchande’ where you can find almost all the shops and services conveniently located under one roof. Situated above the original resort buildings is the Hameau with a mix of chalets and apartment buildings and a link down to the main resort via the Funicular. The resort is located in the lovely Chastillon valley, with the impressive Tete Merciere at the head of the valley. It is a 30 minute drive to the nearest village of Isola, and a little further to the neighbouring ski resort of Auron.
As for skiing and snowboarding, there’s plenty for all the family whatever level you are. For the beginners there’s the Front de Neige which hosts the magic carpet lift for the little ones and a beginner Poma lift. Intermediate skiers and snowboarders will find plenty of gentle blues and greens with lovely views. Whilst the intermediate / advanced skiers can take advantage of the red and black runs along with the Snow Park. Our favourite runs include taking the chairlift to the top of Sistron and on a clear day of catching a glimpse of the Mediterranean sea. Its also great to take the Lombarde chairlift up to the Col de la Lombarde where you can ski along the French-Italian border and look into Italy towards the Santuario Sant’Anna – a monastery nestled high up in the valley.
We’ve put together a bit of information about things you might like to know before you visit Isola 2000. We have details of some of our favourite restaurants, essential shops, where to get ski passes and most importantly how to get to Isola 2000.
OpenIDEO - How might urban slum communities become more resilient to the effects of climate change? - Community Fire Prevention
Fire is a frequent hazard in the urban slums of Bangladesh particularly in the hot dry season (March to May). Image source: collected from internet based news site.
Hundreds of slum dwellers become homeless losing all their household assets and belongings due to incidents of fire. Often it is women who have to bear the brunt of fires.
A man cries after loosing all his belongings in a recent fire in one of the slums of Dhaka city. Image source: collected from internet based news site.
Slum houses are made of inflammable materials such as bamboo and timber. As a result once ignited fire spreads rapidly and can burn down the whole slum within hours. For most of the slums heavy traffic congestions in Dhaka city and narrow roads within the slums do not allow the fire fighters to respond in time. Image source: collected from internet based news site.
BRAC Urban Development Program is working to address the challenges of urbanization in Bangladesh through participatory and integrated interventions.
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Every year nearly 400,000 people migrate to Dhaka seeking better livelihoods. A large part of them end up in numerous slums spread across the city being exposed to many risks and vulnerabilities. Fire is a constant threat for slum dwellers. Fire starts from electrical shorts, lit cigarettes and mosquito coils, kitchen stoves, etc. and spreads rapidly destroying the densely packed dwellings made of inflammable materials. Sometimes fires are lit intentionally to evict slum dwellers. Slum households lack preparedness measures and due to Dhaka’s traffic congestions fire fighters often cannot respond on time. They lose all their belongings and are often unable to cope with such shocks.
We want to build community capacity to prevent incidents of fire by promoting behavior change regarding fire safety and precautions, and transferring technical knowhow to use traditional fire fighting materials. We will engage community groups in slums to raise awareness on safety and prevention measures. We will support them to develop their own disaster preparedness and management plan (e.g. preserving water and sand in each house, safe cooking facilities), and provide them fire fighting materials so that they can put out fire before spreading, ensure evacuation and get support from relevant authorities. We will connect these groups with Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense for long term engagement.
The core beneficiary of this initiative will be the urban slum dwellers who are facing everyday risk of fire hazard and losing all their assets due to this . It will develop their capacity to take precautionary measures and enable them for better preparedness against fire hazards. On the other hand the relevant public body will be more accountable to community due to their functional relationship. The idea will be implemented in selected slums of Dhaka and Chittagong based on community interest.
With the overwhelming urbanization rate and being one of most vulnerable countries due to the adverse impact of climate change, Bangladesh is in the stage of formulating and implementing various adaptation strategies. Climate change is anticipated to compel increasing number of people to migrate from rural to urban areas which will inevitably lead to increased growth of urban slums. Eventually it will deteriorate the living quality of poor urban dwellers and will expose them to frequent hazards such as fire. Bangladesh is putting it’s emphasize on inclusive urban development to tackle the challenges of urbanization. However, due to lack of pro-poor and integrated urban planning, and inadequate policy frameworks, slum dwellers are often left out of the process. This project will effectively connect the slum dwellers with relevant authorities so that they are able to voice their concerns and demand more pro-poor and accountable services. Furthermore, gains from NGO and government interventions are often lost due to fire hazard related shocks to slum dwellers. This initiative will prevent that by creating a community led protection mechanism.
As for design principles the initiative is highly participatory in nature which ensures flexibility, adaptability and optimized use of limited resources. It allows addressing both acute and chronic shocks. It has strong gender focus due to that fact that often women bear the brunt of fires in slums. It will engage existing community groups and institutions which will allow linking with existing urban systems and strengthening them.
We are a team of development practitioners working in Urban Development Program at BRAC. This program aims to improve wellbeing and empower urban poor by ensuring basic services, promoting pro-poor urban governance and fostering innovation towards reducing multi-dimensional poverty and deprivation.
This is a new idea for our organization. We are working in the urban slum areas of Dhaka city using participatory bottom up approaches to strengthen community capacity for collective action. Our present work mostly focuses on enabling poor slum dwellers to access citizenship rights and entitlements and basic services. We are going to launch an intervention from 2016 that focuses on building community platforms which will allow urban poor slum dwellers to identify local challenges and come up with effective solutions. Our existing work is more focused towards enhancing social capital as a way of building social resilience. This idea will allow us to test an approach for building community capacity for addressing fire hazard - a recurring problem in the urban slums in Bangladesh - which could be scaled up at the national level if proven effective.
In our proposed intervention community will prepare their own action plan where BRAC will play the role of facilitator.
Conceptually this initiative will make a paradigm shift in disaster risk reduction approach from disaster recovery approach. It takes a community driven approach of fire hazard risk reduction that makes is different from other initiatives as we believe that community people are the major agents of tackling problem. We just need to capacitate them to realize their potential. It encompasses both the preparedness measures and response mechanism though we are predominantly focusing on ways of avoiding fire occurrence. It was assumed that Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense (BFSCD) is solely responsible for firefighting. But the context is quite different in urban slums due to its unplanned urbanization, massive population density and narrow road. Hence in case of fire, BFSCD barely reach slums in time. Action form community comes first, both in pre and post fire occurrence. The mechanism will ensure a functional partnership between the community and BFSCD. Meanwhile, due to the verity of the impact and issue faced by different segment of the society, this idea takes an inclusive approach of forming representative community group considering age, gender and economic condition.
Due to the rapid mobility of the urban population, it’s really hard to organize people towards a common objectives. Moreover, as the slum dwellers don’t have land ownership, often they are reluctant to response in the community action where they belong. It will be effective to test what can drive them to take collective action. On the other hand, though our preliminary research revealed the underlying cause of fire which includes the intentional lighting of fire by land owner. But we don’t’ know yet whether the land owner do it only to evict people or there are some other geopolitical factor that trigger them. Exploring this question will be a key point of reshaping the projects design.
The problem has not been solved it because there is a common notion that it is the role of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense (BFSCD) to take initiatives for addressing fire hazard. However, BFSCD cannot alone solve this problem particularly in the urban slums which are highly vulnerable to fire hazard and when fire breaks out often either the BFSCD cannot get in due to narrow roads or there are no water points available in the nearby areas. Some existing interventions provide training on disaster preparedness as a whole but these interventions do not extend to the phase of equipping communities with the physical tools to address the issue.
During beneficiary feedback phase we organized couple of sessions with community members in different slums of Dhaka city. Firstly we wanted to know their perception about fire hazard. All of them know the disastrous impact of fire hazard in terms of lives and property and mostly know the common reason for fire occurrence but they don’t realize their collective role in minimizing their risk. One of the community member was saying “Agun karo bap ma keu chare na”- “Fire never leaves anyone behind” that demonstrate their awareness about impact fire can have. Later we asked them play their role before and after fire occurrence which was very exciting for them. During this role play we facilitated to fill the gaps made a synergy with our proposed intervention. However, when we formed the community groups, we found it really difficult to engage because of their work schedule which is very flexible and random during daytime. So, they came up with the idea of incorporating local shop owners and land owner as they are supposed to stay in slums irrespective of time. Moreover, it is supposed to create a sense of ownership. However, as per residents past experience, there need to have a water source in close proximity to slum. But due to the space constrain and high value of the space it was challenging to find a common place. Here the roles of house owner come into play by providing space in negotiation with the slum dwellers.
This idea is a test case of several approaches of reducing fire hazard risk in urban slums. As our ultimate goal is urban poverty reduction, this idea will help us to understand the impact of resilience to fire hazard in urban poverty both in terms of life loos and property damage. At first, we want to scale up this idea in all the prevailing slums of major urban area of Bangladesh. Later replicate this model of fire hazard risk reduction in the rural area of Bangladesh on a customize basis. We hope that, securing life and property for marginalized people will help them to get out of poverty sustainably.
Functional relationship between community and other relevant stakeholders for building resilience against fire hazard in urban slums
Dhaka has been called a city of multiple authorities but without a custodian. The voice of the marginalized part of the society is rarely heard due to the complex multiplicity of authorities coupled with the absence of transparency and accountability mechanism. Our proposed idea will facilitate slum dwellers to raise their voice by making a functional relationship with Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (BFSCD) which will eventually leverage them to demand other civic services like drinking water supply, proper sanitation, drainage network etc. from respective public department.
Some existing initiatives are trying to build the capacity of slums dwellers and public department but on silo basis. Our proposed initiative will connect the people from both end of the pyramid. The successful demonstration of this mechanism will enable the slum dwellers to build their confidence in acquiring services towards ensuring urban resilience not only for periodic shock but also everyday risk.
Beneficiary feedback on the proposed intervention for developing community based mechanism to address fire hazard in the urban slums of Bangladesh.
User experience map for the proposed intervention for developing community based mechanism to address fire hazard in the urban slums of Bangladesh.
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Another recent example of Dhaka where intentional fire breakout has been used as a tools of evicting urban slum dwellers from their land.
What gives you confidence that the community is interested in participating in an initiative like this?
Regarding root cause, Our research and experience of working in urban areas revealed that the underlying reasons of fire occurrences in slums include lack of awareness about the risk factors that can cause fire, certain behaviors and practices (such as using unsafe cooking facilities, burning waste materials very close to the houses, throwing cigarette butts without putting out the fire), makeshift electrical wiring, etc. Our proposed initiative is designed to address these root causes of fire occurrence. Moreover, sometimes slums are set to fire intentionally for eviction. Establishment of an effective fire hazard prevention mechanism is expected to reduce this risk as well. However, overcrowding in urban slums is inevitable due to dweller’s limited earning with high living cost in urban area. Consequently, the proposed intervention capitalizes this potential huge slum dwellers by forming representative groups and encourages collective actions towards reducing fire hazard.
Our idea focuses on addressing the issue of fire hazard on two levels. On one level, a major focus obviously is to educate and aware slum dwellers regarding the causes of fire hazard and prevention measures. However, at the same time the focus is also on developing a functional mechanism for fire hazard prevention which involves community capacity building, equipping the community with simple preventive tools, access to water reservoirs and connecting them with the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (BFSCD) authorities.
Risk of fire hazard significantly contributes to perpetuate vulnerability of urban slum dwellers. Hence there is already a need among slum communities for undertaking an initiative such as this. Community members also expressed their interest during consultation with the beneficiaries. BRAC has 44 years’ of experience in successfully developing and implementing community led interventions for realizing people’s own potentials and addressing the root causes of social injustice. BRAC’s Community Empowerment program (cep.brac.net), Human rights and Legal Aid Service Programme (hrls.brac.net) are some of the notable examples of engaging community in participatory manner. In our proposed initiative, BRAC will act like a facilitator while ensuring the participation of the slum community from the very beginning of the projects by creating a sense of ownership among the slum dwellers. We strongly believe that demonstrating the benefits of this initiative for reducing fire hazard risk collectively and upholding the sense of ownership in this mechanism among community members will act as a prime catalyst for participation.
I just want to supplement Mr. Kazi's answer of the question "How does your idea connect to the broader system of the city where you plan to implement?"
By end of 2016 BRAC will develop a multi-stakeholder network, as part of its ongoing urban interventions, with participation of NGOs, public authorities and service providers to ensure comprehensive service delivery to the urban poor particularly the slum dwellers. The proposed intervention will also take leverage of this network to connect with any other existing initiatives and build synergy.
Great to see the additional details Kazi! Perhaps you might like to reach out and engage with these like-minded initiatives in the Improve Phase. We're excited to see how you might collaborate on similar initiatives.
The first idea of “Mapping and Managing heat stress” will have a significant contribution on understanding the hotspots of vulnerability due to heat waves which will leads to a more pro-poor policy implication from individual to city level. Regarding collaboration it can leverage the community led fire hazard risk reduction initiative for assessing/mapping the risk of fire, based on certain criteria. On broader aspect there are ample opportunities to create partnership with BRAC Urban Development Programme by identifying the service gaps in urban slums towards enhancing resilience knowledge.
On the other hand we can easily collaborate with the 2nd idea of “Fire Sensor”. As our initiative primary aimed at enhancing the prevention measures in urban slums, we can install a fire sensor in each household which will not only disseminate the information regarding fire occurrence but also enable other slums dwellers to response immediately for saving their lives and property.
One method of reducing future hazard, exposure, vulnerability and thus risk of fire in informal settlements would be for future migrates to cities such as Dhaka to leave adequate space between their places of abode, work and leisure. The space should be adequate for the retrospective fitting of infrastructure and services inclusive of those that pertain to water as the settlements formalise. The space should also act as a physical barrier to the spread of fire. Training some of the dwellers of these settlements in urban planning and management would be a great start. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christianstuartkeegan
Congrats on making it to the Feedback Phase Kazi! We would love it if you can take some time to answer the new Refinement questions that we've added to your original idea submission form. To answer the new questions, hit the Edit Contribution button at the top of your post. Scroll down to the entry fields of the new Refinement questions. Hit Save when you are done editing.
Also, here's a useful tip: When you update the content of your post, it'd be helpful to indicate this in your idea title by adding an extension. For example, you can add the extension " - Update: Experience Maps 11/16" to you idea title. This will be a good way to keep people informed about how your idea is progressing!
Hi Kazi, this is very interesting and very much in line with our idea as well: https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/urban-resilience/ideas/young-women-and-men-in-urban-slums-the-voices-of-tomorrow. We do not currently work in slums in Bangladesh per se but we do run a volunteering programme in partnership with the local YMCA. Volunteers have recently helped with a mapping exercise (incl. in Chittagong) with exactly the aim of building local resilience to disaster. Please follow these links to our website:
Hi Rehana, thanks for your note. Yes, our ideas are very much aligned - at BRAC we have been thinking for sometime about setting up establishing some sort of community information and resource centers. Our urban development programme is a new initiative and we are looking forward to link up with others to explore effective solutions, learn and scale up. I will be happy to link up with your 2 initiatives. Cheers. Kazi
Clicked at Rameshwaram, India, I find this frame to be a blend of power, belief, faith and courage. Considered as a religious dhaam , the place attracts devotees from corners of the country. And this photograph frames all the age groups– and all with the same vigor.
Windows 8 comes with a brand new Metro style app experience where native developers and designers can work in parallel. Ones in behavioral aspects and the others in UI. This talk offers an end-to-end view of the developer experience for this kind of app, from the solution creation to the marketplace publication.
This is an awesome session! I just can't believe no one has commented on it yet! Vikas and Joanna team up and walk through a real-world app dev scenario (at least as real world as one can get in 60 minutes) and they show some excellent examples of XAML, how to navigate the VS UI, concrete examples of how to instantiate WINRT objetcs from C++, packaging, etc. Excellent job Vikas and Joanna! I will be watching this one again!
Yes, this is great stuff. I was hoping XAML would be available for GUI development with C++ and here it is! All native code, so it runs fast. This is exciting!
So for all you Silverlight is dead zombies out there. What we have here is the best possible outcome. What this is, is the start of the indocrination of C++ developers into the WPF/Silverlight world. They are merging VS with Ex Blend which is what we want. So, if you are worried that your browser based apps will be useless in Metro. You can relax because this is better. Now we will be able to port our Silverlight plugin based apps to a Windows 8 Metro style application that runs on a tablet with no browser or bandwidth issues. Since Windows apps don't work on an iPad anyway it is a non-issue to claim "it won't work on an iPad". This is the first step to mirroring your PC experience into your tablet device. This is something Apple cannot do. The idea that the world is going to embrace going backward to Java Script based UI to accomodate Apple is rediculous. imo
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Dicker Data, Datacom and Intalock are among Veritas’ top Pacific partners honoured in a recent awards ceremony as the information management company sees increased commitment from partners, post split.
The Vertias Pacific Partner Awards were the first awards for the vendor as an individual company following its split from Symantec and saw eight awards presented.
Intalock took top honours as Veritas’s overall Partner of the Year 2016 and Dicker Data was named Distribution Partner of the Year.
Insight Enterprises was named Veritas Software Licensing Partner of the Year 2016, with Datacom scooping the Service Provider of the Year award and Global Storage named Growth Partner of the Year.
Specialist Partner of the Year went to InfoTrust, while Insentra took out Consulting Partner of the Year and Hitachi Data Systems was Veritas Technology Alliance Partner of the Year.
Janet Docherty, Veritas Pacific senior manager of channels, says Veritas has seen increased commitment from partners as it separated from Symantec.
“Partners are doubling down on their commitment to Veritas across all lines of the partners’ business, through sales, management, technical and delivery capabilities,” Docherty says.
In her first interview, Docherty says partners have received the separation warmly, viewing it as creating a stronger, strategic route to market across information management.
Docherty says the vendor is seeing large growth locally in appliances, with backup and convergence; hybrid cloud; and as-a-service.
“Our backup business is our bread and butter. We’re seeing massive growth in the appliance space and we’re also seeing growth in hybrid cloud where we can help partners and customers migrate from on-premise to cloud or a hybrid model.
“The reality is that is a massive trend and also causes disruptions, so it’s a very good space for us to play.”
“But as we know some applications have been made for on-premise, and it’s harder for those applications to work in the cloud.
“And for disaster recovery, it’s easy to get your information to the cloud, but once it is there, how do you bring it back?
“We have the tools to help our partners look at what the applications are, what the information is, what is important and what can be moved to the cloud,” she says. “We have the tools to give partners’ visibility into what customers’ information is so they can clearly make informed decisions.
Docherty says providing clarity for customers around their data – and whether it should be held on site or sent to the cloud – is becoming increasingly important with companies quickly running out of storage space.
“For longer term retention you can move the information to the cloud, but for things that need to access on a daily basis, you can hold on your appliances.”
“We’ve had partners trained in data assessment, and we’re working with particular partners to do that.
“Most of our named account list are partners who can do that consultative sell,” she adds. “They can do the consultative piece, then sit down and do some pre-sales work or demonstrations, do the delivery and have that ongoing consultancy and help customers with visibility into what they’re doing in the coming years.”
The vendor has 25 managed partners across Australia and New Zealand, including its three distributors – Westcon, Dicker Data and Ingram Micro.
The distributors manage the remainder of Veritas’ local partners, primarily focused on the SMB and commercial markets.
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