Role of Information Communication Technologies in Disaster Preparedness

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) refers to technologies that provide access to information through telecommunications. In the past few decades, information and communication technologies have provided society with a vast array of new communication capabilities. Modern information and communication technologies have created a "global village," in which people can communicate with others across the world as if they were living next door.[i] ?????Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a significant role in disaster prevention, mitigation response and recovery. Timely, predictable and effective information is much needed by government agencies and other humanitarian actors involved in rescue operations and decision-making processes.[ii]  In this paper is going to know the Information Communication Technologies role in Natural Disasters for prepardness and also going to analyse the cause and effect of ICT s to disaster preparedness through based on available secondary sources