International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 3 9 2014 September 2 An ICT based Early Warning System for Flood Disasters in Pakistan 108 118 EN Yasrebdoost Hadi 1 Management Dept, Tabriz Branch, Islamic, Azad University, Tabriz, IRAN SarbazyMoghadam Saeid 2 SalmaGhassem Bagloo 3 Hassanpoor Davood 1 Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Gilan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gilan, IRAN Pourali MohammadReza 2 Ghatge N.S. 1 Pravara Rural Education Society’s; Home Science and BCA College, Loni. Taluka -Rahata, District-Ahmednagar, Gujarat, INDIA Ashraf Muhammad 1 Department of Computer Science, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Karachi, PAKISTAN Sarim Muhammad 2 Shaikh AbdulBasit 3 Sheikh KashifRaffat 4 Nadeem Adnan 5 Ahsan Kamran 6 Siddiq Muhammad 7 FazlollahZarepour Nasirabadi 1 Department of Public Management, Azad University of Kerman, Kerman, IRAN Vahedi Elham 2 Department of Executive Master of Business Administration,Alborz, IRAN Mahdi Vahedi 3 Department of Industrial Management, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh, IRAN Eshaghali Azizi 1 Department of Studies in Education, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, INDIA Mehri Basnas 1 University of Tabriz (Phd), Bahman Blvd, Tabriz, IRAN Anis Mohd 1 Crystal Growth Laboratory, Department of Physics, Milliya Arts Science and Management Science College, Beed-431122, Maharashtra, INDIA Mariajancyrani 1 Department of chemistry, A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur-613 503, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Chandramohan 2 School of Chemical and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, INDIA Ravikumar 3 Ansari Bahareh 1 Dept. of Agricultural Development, College of Agriculture, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN SeyedMehdi Mirdamadi 2 Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Tehran Sci. and Research Branch, Islamic Azad Uni., Tehran, IRAN Hosseini SeyedJamalFarajollah 3 Dept. of Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering, College of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN Noorollahi Younes 4 G.O. Matthew 1 Glass and Ceramic Technology Department, School of Science and Computer Studies, Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, NIGERIA B.O. Fatile 2 Shafakatullah Nannu 1 insNannu Shafakatullah* and M. Chandra Dept. of Bio-Sciences, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri-574199, Mangalore, Karnataka, INDIA Chandra M. 2 Reaza AshrafiHabibAbadi 1 Natanz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Natanz, Isfahan, IRAN Nekoubin Abdolamir 2 Imtiaz Ahmad 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PAKISTAN Mansour Jangizehi 1 Industrial Engineering, Chabahar Payame Noor University, Teheran, IRAN Hossein Alekajbaf 1 Department of Law, Payame- Noor University, Tehran, IRAN SeyedMohammad Hassan 1 Department of Arts and Commerce, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, INDIA JahanshahiSistani Amir 2 R.Satya Raju 3 Shafiq Farhan 1 Department of Computer Science and I.T, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology, MSC Block, Block 9, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, PAKISTAN Ahsan Kamran 2 > Review Paper 2013 11 30 2014 September 2 Pakistan is a developing country, like other developing countries Pakistan is facing so many kind problems. Natural disasters and terrorism are the major issues of Pakistan. Different types of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, drought, landslides and snow slides and galaciers melting are frequent disatter events in the region. 2005 Kashmir earthquake and 2010 flood was the mega destructive events with thousands of live losses and millions of dollors property damages. In suffecient coping capacity, pathatic communication and colloboration between different concerned departments, lack of community awareness, resources gathering and insufficient budgeting, lack of technology awareness, adoption, integration are the most common barrieres in disaster management domain. Information and communication Technology(ICT) is the most adopting and growing technology now a days. ICT is playing most important role in enhancing human life activities as well as increasing efficiency and accuracy along with transparency and out of space and time limitations. ICT is also contributing its lions’ share in the domain of disaster management. Various ICT based applications and services are available for disaster management. Floods are one of the most destructive disaster events in pakistan their frequency and intensity is increasing in last decade. Unpredictable and heavy moonsoon rainfalls and melting galaciers are the most common reasons for floods in pakistan which resulting in massive live losses, large amount of internally displace persons (IDPs), damages of agricultural land and crops as well as live stocks. There is an ugrent need of flood disaster management system (FDMS) equipped with state of the art ICTs. Floods forecasting and predictions, early warning, flood monitoring, risk assessment and damage assessment are the open grounds for integrating ICTs. In this study we are trying to cover the role of ICTs in flood disaster management system all over the world. Identification of challenges and opportunities in in terms of technology integration and adoption in the domain of FDMS in Pakistan, and proposing a ICT based Flood early warning systesm (FEWS) which is second face of the coin. Copyright@ International Science Community Association