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Half of Out of School Children in 15 Countries

Submitted by joeh12 on

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UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2011

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Half of Out of School Children in 15 Countries

Shows the 15 countries with the most children not attending school in the world, which happen to contain half of the world's out-of-school children. Notice that all are impoverished nations.

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The Importance of Education

Submitted by Christine on

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http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001504/150454e.pdf

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The Importance of Education

The image shows the importance of sharing the knowledge about natural disasters as well as the knowledge about the recent technologies on how to prevent and mitigate such disasters.

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World Disaster Alerts for Desktop and Phone

Submitted by Christine on

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http://www.pdc.org/iweb/pdchome.html;jsessionid=0BDBEBB5A8E01B9ACF192F792E38F14D

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World Disaster Alerts for Desktop and Phone

This image shows an example of a Disaster Alert with historical as well as real time data. It is possible to receive an update as soon as there is a warning for a disaster.

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Tsunami Mitigation - The Wave Watchdog

Submitted by Christine on

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http://techocular.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/tsunami-early-warning-system/

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Tsunami Mitigation - The Wave Watchdog

On the image, you can see, how a tsunami warning system works. It shows the Wave Watchdog, which can send signals to a land station in order to warn a community.

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Disaster Cycle

Submitted by Christine on

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http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub38/pub38_screen.pdf

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Disaster Cycle

The Disaster Cycle shows the steps which have to be taken after an event happened. It shows as well which steps have to be taken to be prepared for the next event.

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World health care infrastructure

Submitted by alexf12 on

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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/752049.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/nie99-17d.htm&h=920&w=1425&sz=222&tbnid=u9q4Ifz6ssFMwM&tbnh=180&tbnw=280&zoom=1&usg=__EUJhO2E7sgZsuw21CgNmNmYeRJ0=&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=XswaULHqF-H6igKCoICYAQ&ved=0CF8Q8g0

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World health care infrastructure

This map is showing the global health care infrastructure

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Integrated Crisis Warning System

Submitted by aareno12 on

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/11/lockheed-peers/

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Integrated Crisis Warning System

ICEWS designed to collect and organize relevant data and information to try to predict levels of violence.

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