[Groot Gouda]

More of a test for future proposals, but vote!

Quote: Natural Disaster Act
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Groot Gouda

Description: DEEPLY REGRETTING loss of life and material damages as a result of natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, floods, blizzards, etc;

NOTING that these disasters do not stop at national borders;

OBSERVING the Tsunami Emergency Warning Center as instituted by the Tsunami Warning System (Resolution #90);

NOTING that the aforementioned Resolution #90 has limited effect for other natural disasters;

ALSO NOTING that the measures implemented by this resolution can and should be used for further research and development of natural disaster warning systems;

1. DEFINES "natural disaster" as any disaster caused by (physical) geographical, geological or meteorological processes, including but not limited to earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, typhoons, floods, blizzards, etc;

2. ESTABLISHES a Natural Disaster Assessment Organisation (NDAO) which has the following tasks:
a. Conduct research on natural disasters, preventative methods and monitoring systems,
b. Coordinate international cooperation on this field, in scientific research and in practical solutions,
c. Create protocols for warning about possible disasters, evacuation plans and local disaster awareness programmes,
d. Maintain contacts with local authorities and local organisations in order to improve communication of information about possible natural disasters and how to respond to them,
e. Maintain contacts with national governments participating in the NDAO, the Tsunami Warning Center, and the UN;

3. EMPHASIZES that the NDAO is meant primarily for natural disasters with an international impact;

4. REQUESTS that member nations collect and share geological, meteorological and other relevant data with other countries and the NDAO to assist in monitoring, forecasting and researching natural disasters;

5. URGES all nations to establish and fund a National Geological Survey and a National Meteorological Office which can colelct data, contribute to the NDAO as well as work on a national or regional level on the monitoring of potentially dangerous sites and conduct research;

6. EMPHASIZES that technology alone is not enough, but warning and evacuating the population efficiently is just as important, as well as having plans for dealing with a disaster and the rebuilding of the affected region;

7. URGES all nations to contribute financially, organisationally or otherwise to the NDAO;

8. CALLS UPON all nations to provide care and assistance in case of a natural disaster, by themselves or through recognized UN organisations such as the International Red Cross;

The People's Republic of Groot Gouda would like to thank Grosseschnauzer, Mikitivity and the Nederland region for their input.[/quote]

[Mikitivity]

Since we can't view who voted and have others from outside the region, in addition to the poll, I think we should sound off:

Mikitivity: Yes.

[Yoshitaria]

Yoshitaria: Yes.

[Groot Gouda]

MikitivityApr 22 2005, 05:21 PM Since we can't view who voted and have others from outside the region, in addition to the poll, I think we should sound off [/quote]
But that kind of takes away the advantage of the poll. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to restrict foreign diplomats from participating in a poll here. It's either restrict this from from them for posting completely (which is a possibility considering the Delegate Office which has no such restrictions), keeping this for IDU members only, or allow them to vote. I prefer to give the diplomats the right to post here, so they can give the opinion of another region, which can be worthwhile.

I could define the "voting rules" to be as follows: the delegate follows the poll outcome for the votes with known origin. That means that anyone can vote (members and diplomats), but they either have to state their opinion here or send a TG to the delegate.

[Mikitivity]

Groot GoudaApr 22 2005, 01:00 PM MikitivityApr 22 2005, 05:21 PM Since we can't view who voted and have others from outside the region, in addition to the poll, I think we should sound off [/quote]
But that kind of takes away the advantage of the poll. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to restrict foreign diplomats from participating in a poll here. It's either restrict this from from them for posting completely (which is a possibility considering the Delegate Office which has no such restrictions), keeping this for IDU members only, or allow them to vote. I prefer to give the diplomats the right to post here, so they can give the opinion of another region, which can be worthwhile.

I could define the "voting rules" to be as follows: the delegate follows the poll outcome for the votes with known origin. That means that anyone can vote (members and diplomats), but they either have to state their opinion here or send a TG to the delegate. [/quote]
Make a "Native Mask" and apply it to all IDU UN Members. And then hide the forum to only native eyes.

Or we just trust everybody. I too agree diplomats should post their views here.

I like your rules.

[Groot Gouda]

MikitivityApr 22 2005, 08:37 PM I like your rules. [/quote]
Them's good old-fashioned handcrafted rules, like you don't see 'm anymore in this modern automated world

The basic rule is: do it unless it's abused.

A bit of admin talk, but so what. There's a Foreign Diplomats Mask which restricts diplomats from certain parts of the forum which we use for internal decisionmaking. Not that I'm expecting abuse, but let's not tempt anyone, either. First and foremost this is an IDU forum, where we need to be able to discuss things with just the region members.

But that mask is restricted to just a few things: reading, starting a discussion, replying, and uploading. It's not possible to edit the mask to that replying to a poll isn't possible, but replying in general is in a certain subforum. So that leaves two options: make a forum read-only, or accept it as it is. I prefer the latter, because I trust the current ambassadors not to abuse the privilege they have, and I want them to be able to give their opinion here.

[Keeslandia]

Congrats Groot! Good to see we voted early & often.

[Mikitivity]

Wow, the resolution passed with approximately 81% support, which is incredibly high for a UN resolution!

CONGRATS!

[Grosseschnauzer]

You would have thought being a more general resolution this would have outpolled the Tsunami resolution, but that was not the case. Wierd.

Now that this is out of the way, can we discuss whether there needs to be a resolution on building standards that applies to public buildings and that mat be applied to other buidings to cotribute to emergency preparedness for all types of natural disasters, including tsunami?

[Mikitivity]

GrosseschnauzerApr 24 2005, 02:46 PM You would have thought being a more general resolution this would have outpolled the Tsunami resolution, but that was not the case. Wierd.

Now that this is out of the way, can we discuss whether there needs to be a resolution on building standards that applies to public buildings and that mat be applied to other buidings to cotribute to emergency preparedness for all types of natural disasters, including tsunami? [/quote]
I'm not surprised ... as the total votes cast this time were nearly 16,000 compared to the 18,000 that the Warning System got. I think that two things are currently happening in NationStates:

1) political players are running to a new free web game called Patricity or something like that (there is a forum dedicated to it on the Celdonia forums),

2) voter fatique ... even though we only addressed this in Jan., there are some people whom are probably clamouring for something a bit different.

I'm still very happy with the show of support. In all the regions I've been advocating for this, nations (players) have been 100% supportative of this resolution, and honestly viewed this as a logical extension to the Tsunami resolution.


I've love to start work on the next resolution, and I think an appropriate working title is "Universal Building Code". But I'd like to do something a bit more unconventional with this idea ... I'd like those of us interested in this to use the new "NDAO" and TEWC" to conduct some surveys in nation states asking nations to list what types of natural disasters impact their governments. NationStates polls can accept different answers.

We can combine that info with Eurosalvia's "Tech Level" surveys to get some good basis for the resolution.

Personally, I'd like the UN UBC to be limited to schools, hospitals, police stations, and fire stations

[Groot Gouda]

I think it should cover some basic guidelines for houses as well.


Anyway, thanks all who helped with this resolution and congratulations to yet another big achievement of a small region!

[poking the devil]

Came in too late on this one... but it makes interesting reading to see how the decision was reached. I too would have supported the motion.

[Malabra]

Congratulations on this proposing passing!! I voted for.