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Built from IBM’s collaboration with NASA, the watsonx.ai model is designed to convert satellite data into high-resolution maps of floods, fires, and other landscape changes to reveal our planet’s past and hint at its future.
The 2019 edition of the Call for Code has released its finalists: developers who competed to create solutions that help mitigate the effects of natural hazards.
IBM's new "Weather Company Vegetation Management - Predict" combines AI and analytics to help utility providers address the costs and inefficiencies of vegetation management by better assessing the current state of vegetation in their service territory. This resource will help utilities reduce risks by ensuring vegetation does not trigger a disaster.
IBM and partners today launched the Call for Code Global Initiative, to bring startup, academic and enterprise developers together for disaster preparedness by tapping into data and AI, blockchain, cloud and IoT technologies to address social challenges.
Stamford (USA), Puerto Montt (Chile) and Luanda (Angola) cities held workshops with multiple stakeholders to complete the United Nations City Disaster Resilience Scorecard.
This report explores the actions being taken by Oil and Gas companies to assess and manage the risks and opportunities that a changing climate will have on their business models.
The city government and IBM signed an agreement to build a public information management center for Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Operations Center will integrate and interconnect information from multiple government departments and public agencies in the municipality to improve city safety and responsiveness to various types of incidents, such as flash floods and landslides...
IBM inventors have developed a patented 'natural disaster' warning system, which uses analytics to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of post-event efforts while it also offers a means to accurately predict the location and timing of subsequent catastrophic events...
Voluntary Commitments
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.