Participants in the Emergency and Crisis Management Conference, organized by the National Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management Agency, have engaged innovation and artificial intelligence techniques to predict and prevent disasters and crises, reduce their impact, and develop national capacities and capabilities to protect lives and property, pointing out that innovative solutions and technologies, Artificial intelligence will play an important and influential role in international efforts to achieve that goal.
HH Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor, stressed that "Our vision of national security in its comprehensive sense in the country is based on the aspiration and preparation for the future. Human rights come first on the list of the state's concerns. Efforts to elevate the human element, in order to provide the elements of a decent life and prosperity for residents on this good land, to provide security and stability ».
"The State has invested in the management of emergencies, crises and disasters, rehabilitated cadres and established appropriate infrastructure. It also sought to enact laws and regulations and employ the latest systems, applications and means to confront the various types and challenges of threats. The limits of the use of technology, but it has become a center for production and technological developments, and did not make any effort to pursue the strategic goals of the vision of the UAE 2021, and the translation of the overall vision of our leadership for the future of the process of construction and renaissance in our state ».
"Artificial Intelligence has a great deal of attention, keeping pace with the important and growing role that it is expected to play in the future, not only in improving our ability to predict disasters and crises, accelerating the response to emergencies and saving," said Minister of Climate Change and Environment Dr. Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zewaidi. But also to reduce the causal factors of disasters and crises, specifically climate change, as the most important challenge facing humanity in this century and the most prominent cause of natural disasters. "
The United Nations Disaster Risk Research Center estimates direct economic disaster losses at more than $ 2,900 billion from 1998 to 2017 and that 91 per cent of the more than 7,000 disasters recorded in the past 20 years are related to climate change .
"Innovative solutions and new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, will play an important and influential role in international efforts to achieve that goal.
"In the UAE, we have not seen much of the extreme weather events, but we are aware of the potential of future studies and the potential risks, especially for the coastal areas, which embrace the majority of the population and the economic and vital activities of the country. , And therefore an important aspect of our efforts to reduce the causal factors of natural disasters is to deal with climate change, mitigation and adaptation. "
Looking ahead
The director of the National Emergency and Crisis Management Agency, Dr. Jamal Al-Hosani, said that emergency and crisis management is a delicate process that requires the right planning and the utmost preparedness to reduce the impact of events, noting that the study of factors and effects and variables, and the pattern of disasters and crises, Build into the right planning, capacity building, and optimal preparedness.