The National Emergency Commission (CNE) of the Dominican Republic has launched a National Integrated Information System (SINI) to support decision-making in disaster risk reduction and emergency response. SINI - an inter-institutional, multi-disciplinary geospatial information portal - was developed with the support of the Ministry of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic. The need for such a system was first recognized in Decree Law 147-02, which the Congress of the Dominican Republic adopted in 2002.
SINI has been structured to compile data from a variety of ministries, government agencies and other sources, as well as using unmanned aerial vehicles, to generate relevant information in a timely basis which can be used by the Technical Committee for Prevention and Legislation to guide disaster risk reduction efforts within the Dominican Republic, as well as by the National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) of the Commission in case of disasters.
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