What is TIDES?

Submitted by cglusky on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 19:42.
  • A voluntary, information sharing research project
  • To encourage development of Communities of Interest about people in stressed environments:
    • Stabilization & Reconstruction (SSTR)
    • Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Relief (HADR)
    • Building Partnership Capacity (BPC)
  • Domestic & foreign, short & long term, military involved, or not
  • DoD usually is not in the lead—Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) typically leads domestically, Department of State/US Agency for International Development (USAID) abroad
  • Not trying to solve all problems.  Focused on 7 infrastructures
    • Shelter, Water, Power, Integrated Solar and Combustion Cooking, Heating/ Lighting/Cooling, Sanitation, Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
    • Low cost & transitional, service integrated, easily deployable, inexpensive
  • Goal is to build broadest possible inclusion
  • Participation doesn’t imply endorsement by the US goverment
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