QUESTION
Is there a use for city agencies to utilize technology for future emergencies?
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The Chief Technology Officer emphasizes the importance of integrating emergency response systems into city agencies for future use.
- Matthew Fraser highlights the importance of learning from past emergencies like Sandy to improve city resilience.
- Infrastructure being built includes foundational updates to systems that manage the city's shelter system.
- The aim is to maintain emergency response systems within city agencies for long-term use, ensuring readiness for future emergencies.
- The approach also involves determining which agencies should own and operate these systems sustainably.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:47:28
Do you have a feel do you think that there is any use for city agencies to use this technology or just, like, reconvert the system when the city doesn't need to use it moving forward.
Matthew Fraser
0:47:41
A 100%.
0:47:41
So I think a lot of what we're building now, very similar.
0:47:44
I mean, earlier we spoke about the office of housing recovery operations.
0:47:48
I mean, you look at something like Sandy, it hits the city, you have 1,000,000,000 of dollars of damage, and there's no way to manage the recovery of that effort.
0:47:58
So one of the lessons that we learned post Sandy was that instead of decommissioning after you know, you finished in with the emergency, decommissioning those systems, figuring out the agencies that should own it long term and build it into their operations to maintain it should the city were needed again.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:48:12
Mhmm.
Matthew Fraser
0:48:13
So a lot of the infrastructure that we're building out, it lays foundational updates on other systems like gears and other things like that that manage our existing shelter system today.
0:48:23
Should we see something like this again in the future?
0:48:26
We would have the capability to respond to it.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:48:28
Great.