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Webinar: From disaster recovery to BAU - sharing information and fostering collaboration with the Forward Works Viewer

  • 16 Jul 2024
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Natural disasters are part of life in Aotearoa we need to plan and prepare for. The New Zealand Emergency Management Association (NEMA) is clear that 'effective recovery requires preparation'. But what does preparation look like - especially when it comes to the information we hold within local government? This presentation will focus on the role we play in the recovery of vital civic infrastructure - how our essential lifelines such as bridges, roads, pipes and cables are restored when unplanned events occur. Councils are uniquely positioned to orchestrate the flow of information - for assets and data we own and more importantly, for assets and data we don't own but which is essential to our civic purpose.

This presentation emphasizes that our approach to disaster response should be the same as our day-to-day operations. We propose a new way to manage information about our infrastructure that benefits both daily tasks and disaster response. By improving data sharing and collaboration with external partners, we can save time and money in our projects and maintain a system that's always ready for natural disasters.


This isn't just theory - we will showcase the role of the National Forward Works Viewer (and the new National Underground Asset Register) and explain how these are already supporting BAU and recovery operations. 


Digital Built Aotearoa Foundation was set up in 2023.  It’s a place to act as a repository of digitally collated information of the built environment. Their aim is to be a neutral entity to host and publish national infrastructure data via the National Forward Works Viewer, and to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing to improve infrastructure resilience throughout Aotearoa. Charitable purpose can be found at https://www.digitalbuiltaotearoa.org.nz/about.html



About the Presenters: 

 

Angus Bargh

Technical Lead
National Forward Works Viewer

Angus Bargh is the technical lead for the National Forward Works Viewer on behalf of the Digital Built Aotearoa Foundation - the owner of the viewer. Angus is a professional engineer and transport planner having been part of the civil infrastructure recovery alliances in Christchurch, Kaikoura and more recently on the East Coast of the North Island following Cyclone Gabrielle. His journey with the National Forward Works Viewer started in 2012 where it was extensively used for the rebuild of Christchurch. 


Matt Thomas
Chair of Digital Built Aotearoa Foundation

Matt has over 20 years’ experience in Programme Management, infrastructure asset management and systems and data governance. He was responsible for the design and establishment of the processes and systems for both the Christchurch horizontal infrastructure rebuild alliance following the 2011 earthquake and also the Kaikoura transport infrastructure rebuild alliance following the 2016 earthquake.

He is currently advising on the establishment of the east coast recovery alliances following the flood events earlier this year in addition to other large infrastructure programmes. This will be the third disaster recovery alliance that Matt has helped to establish.

A strong advocate for systems which provide enduring capabilities - these are digital and system capabilities that offer enduring value during peace-time and offer expedited recovery timeframes following disasters.

He is chair of the newly established Digital Built Aotearoa Foundation - a charity established to be a home for technology and knowledge, gathered from our experience of disaster recovery, and make this available to all New Zealand. He wants us to stop reinventing the wheel every time there's a new disaster or large infrastructure programme and start looking at opportunities to standardise the way we work across the sector and promote open-data for the benefit of the communities we serve.

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