Again, many thanks to Silicon.com for bringing the Council for Science and Technology’s report on six technologies to prepare for to our attention. Here we discuss disaster mitigation technologies.

“Disaster mitigation technologies is another climate-related area aimed at predicting, preventing and preparing for natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. Technologies that would fall into this would include the existing Argo ocean monitoring system and the proposed European GMES climate monitoring satellite network.”

Again, high information components here, but we could also bring this closer to home and talk about the Thames flood barrier, the entire flood plain, and quite a bit more. One area of IA concern would be false positives in disaster prediction that could undermine confidence in all such systems. The fidelity of such systems would be of paramount importance. We remarked earlier that weather satellites had saved more lives than penicillin, but that is true only because millions of people in Asia believe it when they are told they have to move inland.

So, SCADA-type systems to monitor the functionality of the systems. Security of the entire information system. Fidelity of information gathering components that will actually be depended on for life-saving information.

Yes, I think this is a strong candidate for inclusion.