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CARDIN

Caribbean, Disaster Information Network 

keywords - disaster preparedness, library, climate, metrological data, public information

CARDIN: To strengthen the capacity within the Caribbean community, for the collection indexing, dissemination and use of disaster related information serving as a sub-regional disaster information centre.

This is a network of institutions across the Caribbean using ICTs to archive and retrieve data which is vital to their disaster preparedness planning.

The inclusions of IC Technology brought together a number of related institutions who had previously only weak linkages.  The ICTs have enhanced the overall planning of this disparate network.

To view the four page summary as a pdf  (please note the size is 590K )           

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