The pandemic of 2019 has taught the humankind several vital lessons regarding the development and implementation of appropriate risk management strategies. Specifically, the COVID-19 disaster has demonstrated major dents in the current approach toward building disaster management plans and integrating them to resolve issues on local and global levels (An and Tang 794). By creating stronger connections with experts within the global community and haring knowledge actively, the humankind will be able to prevent disasters from taking place in the future.
In order to address the issues that start as local and then spread to encompass the entire world, the creation of a broad communication channel must be considered. Specifically, information regarding the proper actions to be taken during different types of disasters among community members with the help of social media and similar digital tools. Furthermore, innovative IT and ICT solutions must be integrated to enhance international and cross-cultural collaboration to mitigate the threats associated with global disasters (Chirisa et al. 68). Namely, information regarding local concerns that have the potential to become global threats must be transferred to respective authorities globally to ensure that each state introduces effective measures to provide proper safety for its population. Moreover, the specified communication channels must be used to cooperate and produce solutions for managing discovered issues (Fang et al. 4). Thus, major global disasters can be prevented effectively, and numerous lives can be saved.
With the emphasis on the use of the latest technological innovations to encourage cross-cultural knowledge sharing and collaboration, the humankind will be able to mitigate dire outcomes of issues that are both global and local. Specifically, innovative solutions for maintaining local and global communication channels open and transferring data effectively must be utilized. Thus, the extent of preparedness and the quality of managing global disasters will increase.
Works Cited
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