Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure

Send us Fan MailWe live in a modern, technologically enabled society. The leaps in life-improving scientific achievements in the last few decades alone is substantial. From the advent of general AI access for the public, to autonomous systems, we are indeed in the 4th industrial revolution. Robotics, human-machine interfaces and a host of emerging technologies are poised to revolutionize how we create, repair and dispose of products. Our societies, urbanizing more each day, are possible through the provision of critical infrastructure (CI), often considered the legs that hold up the a city's foundation. In Canada, there are 10 sectors, 16 in the USA and in some locations, CI is referred to as lifelines. However codified, CI is the operationalization of the technological advances across our communities, enabling a mind-boggling plethora of opportunities that a decade ago would have seemed impossible. On the cusp of the 4th Industrial Revolution, society is evolving at record pace, and that is both unnerving and brilliant.Grounding preparedness planning in loss of access to CI is designed to enable individuals, corporations and organizations to create bespoke preparedness plans that reflect unique operations across this technologically enabled modern society. When completed across the personal and professional frames, a responsible individual will have considered a minimum of 160 questions related to their dependancy on and exposure to elements and sectors of CI. The results of these questions provide a frame for the preparedness plan that is unique to the author. The intent is to mirror the value of disaster impact reduction (DIR), whose premise is that it matters not why access to a sector of CI is lost, but that we have constructed a plan to mitigate. Differing from disaster risk reduction (DRR), which is focussed on hazard reduction to mitigate potential future impact. Close on the heals of the paradigmatic alterations in preparedness communications to the public, adoption of CI grounded strategies across all four spheres of society will lead to a better prepared and resilience community. Support the showhttps://preparednesslabs.ca/