Introduction: The Aim and Strategy of the Disaster Management and Mitigation Group

摘要

Disaster Management and Mitigation Group has been a research group which deals with not fundamental research but social application of disaster management technology. Therefore, the group has aimed to achieve selection of research theme, perform research and development, systematization for practical use, academic activity, and technology transfer within 5 years of the 2nd medium-term plan of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).This paper describes the strategy and aim for such short-period activity. And, the activity for five years is surveyed by the series at the time of every month. Moreover, typical achievement of the 5 years project is mentioned.