Leveraging IT in Disaster Management

At the global level, there has been considerable concern over natural disasters. In fact, the human toll and economic losses have mounted. Over the past years, the Government of India has brought about a paradigm shift in the approach to disaster management. The new approach proceeds from the conviction that development cannot be sustainable unless disaster mitigation is built into the development process.Disaster management occupies an important place in any country’s policy framework as it is the poor and the under-privileged who are worst affected on account of calamities/disasters. The steps being taken by the Governments emanate from the approach based on the information technology. Present Paper focuses on the e-government disaster prevention strategy, early warning system, disaster mitigation, preparedness and response and human resource development. E-Governance and some NGO’s are involved in the different countries state and provide the various prevention information form the disaster. Two case studies are used one for china disaster and second for Japan earthquake disaster and finding is influenced from planning, preparedness, technology, mitigation and recovery,by this the government prevent the disaster