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Displaying 105 of about 132 resultsGENEVA, 17 April 2013 - Outer space isn't a place organizations usually think of when looking to build resilience and reduce disaster risks. Yet, this is exactly where participants' minds were when experts were invited by UNISDR and the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to discuss the incorporation of space technology into the post-2015 disas…
Organizers: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
Dates: 8 February 2022
Location: Online
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Amid a global context of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, countries, industries and firms are faced with the intensification of two core transformational trends to society: on the one hand, the increased adoption o…
The ongoing coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented event in human history, requiring the scientific community to work as one to support societies during and beyond this global crisis. The pandemic impacts go well beyond the health sector including all the sectors threatening the failure of the entire system which may cause a social col…
This session will make the case for accelerating action for an inclusive digital transformation as a pathway to deliver on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, the SDGs, and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The adoption of meaningful digital technologies and solutions, ICT infrastructure, and leveraging South-South and triangular coo…
This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource-constrained urban contexts. The authors draw lessons from how data-enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, a…
Systems for digital proximity tracing emerged during 2020 as public health technologies aimed to mitigate community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Their use, in combination with traditional methods of contact tracing, have offered new potential for health authorities to limit or interrupt chains of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.…
During these challenging times, in which we live the COVID-19 outbreak, the digital world is increasingly becoming our reality.
Now that we are confined to our homes, technology is an ally to keep us connected and a refuge from a world that is shaken.
COVID-19 led countries to adopt different strategies to deal with the outbreak. The implementation o…
Risk awareness is the best way to prevent and slow down the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic and is achieved through the communication of risk assessment. Effective risk communication is an important measure to control infodemics as well. Most risk assessment tools focus on either tracking affected patients or diagnosing a probable health cond…
By Hariz Baharudin
In a move to help the international community combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Government will be making the software for its contact-tracing application TraceTogether, which has already been installed by more than 620,000 people, freely available to developers around the world.
In a Facebook post on Monday (March 23)…
By Chris Teale
ABI gave many cities credit for becoming "acutely aware" of the need to be more resilient, but overall said cities were "woefully unprepared" for a pandemic like coronavirus despite existing investments and efforts. Cities risk being similarly unprepared for future incidents like extreme weather events that have become more in…
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact. Since its onset, the Government of India, State Governments and local authorities have been directing all their efforts towards handling the crisis. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) wil…
The rapid pace of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) presents challenges to the robust collection of population-scale data to address this global health crisis. The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) consortium was established to bring together scientists with expertise in big data research and epidemiology to de…
In this report, the Science and Technology Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament examines what lessons have been drawn from the Ebola outbreak last year concerning the use of scientific advice in the UK for similar disease outbreak emergencies in future. It explores the UK's preparedness for major disease outbreaks, the response framework and a cha…
By Margaret Preigh
When an area is struck by disease, chaos can often consume a community as it tries to organize in the midst of fear and confusion.
Martial Ndeffo, an assistant professor in the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, helps local official…
By Aleks Berditchevskaia, Nesta and Kathy Peach, Nesta
Tackling the emergence of a new global pandemic is a complex task. But collective intelligence is now being used around the world by communities and governments to respond.
At its simplest, collective intelligence is the enhanced capacity created when distributed groups of people work togethe…