This project was divided into “administrative and operational support” and “system maintenance and function development” two dimensions. In respect of administrative and operational support, in addition to providing 1,630 calls for consulting services, the team also identified the disaster contact personnel information of each government agencies to let the concerned personnel in the Environmental Protection Administration, county/city environmental protection bureaus, township and municipal cleaning squads be smooth in communication and familiar with the reporting process. There were also 8 on field training via scenario simulation held in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Taitung and Hualien (total in 443 participants) and 3 national disaster simulation practices. In addition, the team also completed 6 stationing service tasks as set forth in the contract during the period of 8 typhoons attacking Taiwan. Totally, 52 people were involved in the project. As to system maintenance and functional development, in addition to improve the voice reporting sped by using creative number combination, there were also Android mobile reporting system integrating with the Global Positioning System(GPS), photo uploading, color changing, operation reminder and home functions to effectively enhance the disaster reporting efficiency. Besides, to reinforce current operational efficiency in term of allocation, statistical analysis, review and approval such supporting operations, the team has developed establishment and searching for mutual rescue resources support among counties and cities, auto-generated working journal in WORD format, speed sign up function for stationing personnel, online statistic report printing functions other than update the support request functions. Finally, the team has also collected 226 related disaster news as references for the reporting people and implemented 11 safety inspections and 5 system updates in cooperated with the Environmental Protection Administration this year.

Environmental Emergency Management Information System;;Disaster Management;Natural Incident