AÏDA will make a snapshot of the disaster situation in Africa with an emphasis on the used ICT solutions. On a continental scale, AÏDA will examine the Early Warning Information Services and the Disaster Management Dissemination Platforms.  Drilling down to a National scale, we have selected 4 countries which often are confronted with different sorts of Natural hazards and which have well developed National Disaster Action Plans to cope with these hazards. 
The 4 countries are:

• Mali (facing drought, desert locusts and food insecurity)
• Nigeria (facing several epidemic hazards as bird flu H5N1, rinderpest and Malaria/the Rift Valley disease)
• Tanzania (facing floods, tsunamis and earthquakes)
• South Africa (facing fires, floods and drought)

We will look to the ICT systems that those actors use.  It is very likely that some deployed ICT solutions which are used for the monitoring, prediction, warning or post-hazard relief of a certain disaster in Africa, can be easily re-used for managing other disasters.  We want to start a cross-fertilization process of knowledge and best practices between all disaster stakeholders in Africa.