Skip to main content

Chile 10 Santiago - Dronelab Platform for CIGIDEN

In October 2018, the two companies partnered and deployed 15 employees, nine employees from IBM and six from Johnson & Johnson, together representing 10 countries, to Santiago to leverage their core capabilities in IT and healthcare to support four organizations focused on creating a more resilient Chile.
In 2018, IBM celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Corporate Service Corps (CSC) social impact program. As the longest running program of its kind dealing with a wide range of social challenges, the CSC has consistently experimented with new approaches and partnerships, striving to deepen economic and social benefits to mission-driven organizations and their communities, while building leadership competencies and spurring innovative thinking for the participating corporate employees.

One sub-team, comprised of two employees from IBM and two employees from Johnson & Johnson, collaborated with the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management(CIGIDEN), a government-funded initiative launched in 2011 in response to one of the strongest and costliest earthquakes in Chilean history. CIGIDEN is managed by four major Chilean universities and consists of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, geologists, and anthropologists, among other experts. Its cross-discipline approach created an opening to invite additional partners.

Harnessing drone technology for greater awareness
One of the ways CIGIDEN is informing its research and igniting a public conversation around disaster risk reduction is through its DroneLab project, which is capturing an abundance of aerial data. The drone data contributes to detailed mapping of infrastructure, population distribution, high vulnerability zones, and geology, among other information that can help educate and inform preparedness efforts from the household to the regional scale. However, finding a way to organize and share the aggregated data proved a challenge that initiated the partnership with the multinational companies.

From left to right: Dawn Mims from Johnson & Johnson USA, Barbora Lebedova from IBM Slovakia, Anup Patri from IBM Malaysia, and Ricardo Rivera from Johnson & Johnson Puerto Rico.





Partnering for Disaster Preparedness in Chile https://youtu.be/gM628wFYzZMvia @YouTube


Thank You,

Anupa Kumar Patri (Anup)
Squad Leader (APANZ-Q2C-Ops-T2-GTS-3  & APANZ-SSCT-SVCS)
Growth Hub Leader (MY, SG & TH)
IBM Enterprise Services
Manager CMPA , CIC Malaysia
Global Technology Services
+60104318450 Mobile
+60369881245 Office
IBM GDC Quill -18, Cyberjaya
anupa@my.ibm.com

IBM Services

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tsunami Lab

What is Tsunami Lab? Tsunami Lab is an educational platform that allows you to simulate and visualize the effect of tsunamis. Unlike other tools, such as the videos of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States. (NOAA), Tsunami Lab allows you to interact and configure different scenarios.Tsunami Lab was designed by José Galaz, an industrial civil engineer with a major in mathematics, while working at the National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management (CIGIDEN). The application is born of the crossing of a need - educating people as one of the most effective measures to save lives in the face of the impact of tsunamis in Chile - and the use of new technologies. This is how, subsequently, a collaboration was born between CIGIDEN and Inria Chile to promote the development of this project.
Post a Comment
Read more

CIGIDEN Research Lab inside Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

The multidisciplinary and integrated team of CIGIDEN brings together researchers and professionals who work through six lines of research. Operating inside the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile was founded on June 21, 1888 by Monsignor Mariano Casanova, Archbishop of Santiago. His goal was to create an institution capable of blending academic excellence and training based on the Christian doctrine.   The local and universal historical context that the Church faced when the University was founded inspired the institution to train professionals who led Christian lives and who could renew energies for the coming generations. The first Rector was Monsignor Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas and the first two faculties were Law, Physical Sciences and Math., At a global level, Chile is one of the most outstanding natural laboratories for the study of disasters of natural origin, where concepts and models can be put to the test. ...
Post a Comment
Read more