Mark Zuckerberg talked up Facebook’s plans to expand its artificial intelligence and safety check features at a  yesterday in Italy. Taking questions from an audience at a university in Rome, Zuckerberg expressed his condolences following the deadly earthquake that ravaged central Italy last week. He also used the opportunity to highlight his social network’s ability to mark people as “safe” in natural disasters. Almost half of […]

The Importance of Being Prepared Before a Disaster; An emergency plan refers to a set plan of action put in place to combat major urgent issues which are always uncertain but very disastrous. Some of the emergencies include flooding, fire-outbreaks, terrorist attacks, and explosions among other hazardous conditions. Emergency planning is very significant as it not only help in providing guidance during an emergency, but […]

There is on-going vulnerability of nations and communities to the impacts of disasters which has led to increased national and regional commitments to disaster risk reduction and disaster management (SOPAC, 2005). The aim of this paper is to make a justification of the assertion that disaster management is a security concern. This will be done by looking at the terms disaster, disaster management, and security […]

Leadership is the process in which an individual influences the group of individuals to attain a common goal. Good leadership ensures that the goal is attained by mutual cooperation and cohesive behavior. An effective leader infuses a sense of positivist and efficiently directs others to reach the specified goal. The captain in the movie placed too much emphasis on power. A captain who attempts to […]

The explosion in the gulf was partially blamed on the important pieces of safety equipment that BP was criticized for not having in place in Alaska, according to its own 2001 operational integrity report, were gas and fire detection sensors and the emergency shutoff valves that should have been in place. Gas sensors are critical to preventing an explosion, because they can shut down a […]