{"id":1952,"date":"2020-05-01T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:12:30","slug":"disaster-risk-reduction-and-open-data-newsletter-may-2020-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/disaster-risk-reduction-and-open-data-newsletter-may-2020-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: May 2020 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Data Ecosystem to defeat COVID-19<\/strong><\/a>
\nBapon Fakhruddin discusses why the COVID-19 pandemic requires thinking and decision making supported by a data ecosystem which looks much further into the future than previous short-term approaches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In Low-Income Countries Fundamental Data Issues Remain for COVID-19 Response<\/a><\/strong>
\nHow are LICs responding to COVID-19 and what are some of the\u00a0issues we need to bear in mind when using new data sources to respond to the pandemic in these contexts?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Big Data in a Time of Crisis: Maximizing its Value \u2013 And Avoiding its Risks \u2013 In the Fight Against COVID-19<\/a><\/strong>
\nHow can we best use big data to combat COVID-19?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the Fight Against COVID-19: What Do We Know and To Whom Can We Turn For Answers<\/a><\/strong>
\nWhat do policymakers and the general public need to know about the data available (or lack of) and how can we best remain informed?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Blog from ISC-WDS: knowledge service for disaster risk reduction: a practice using big data technology<\/a><\/strong>
\nUnder the dual influences of global climate change and human activities, the frequency and the intensity of natural disasters have been growing in recent years, and resulting in increasingly serious disaster losses. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is thus a common and urgent global challenge<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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W<\/a>hy open science is critical in combatting COVID-19<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe OECD is compiling data, analysis and recommendations on a range of topics to address the emerging health, economic and societal crisis, facilitate co-ordination, and contribute to the necessary global action when confronting this enormous collective challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Conflict prevention in the era of climate change: Adapting the UN to climate-security risks<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis report aims to support the United Nations (UN) and its partners in developing climate-sensitive conflict prevention approaches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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COVID-19 small business continuity and recovery planning toolkit<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe outbreak of COVID-19\u00a0has created a vicious circle of vulnerabilities across the private sector. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and partners published a toolkit to provide business continuity and recovery planning support to affected\u00a0small and medium-sized enterprises\u00a0(SMEs).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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ESCAP: Asia and the Pacific SDG progress report 2020<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis report analyses trends as well as data availability for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific and its five subregions. It assesses gaps which must be closed to achieve the goals by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UNESCO: World Water Development Report 2020<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe 2020 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) entitled \u2018Water and Climate Change\u2019 aims at helping the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Disaster Recovery Framework Guide<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis is a\u00a0revised and updated version of the Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) guide that was originally issued in 2015 has been published in March 2020.
\nThe guide is intended as a practice-based, results-focused tool to assist governments and partners in planning for resilient post-disaster recovery following a large-scale disaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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COVID-19\u00a0– Transition from response to recovery (T+T) – Webinar –\u00a012 May<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe pandemic is unchartered territory for most of us but responding to it is business-as-usual for disaster risk reduction specialists. Tonkin + Taylor, in partnership with Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), Committee on Data\u00a0(CODATA) of the International Science Council (ISC), has brought together four of the world\u2019s leading disaster response experts to share the lessons learned from large-scale disasters and how they can be applied to the coronavirus pandemic recovery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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COVID-19: Opportunities for Resilient Recovery – Webinar – 7 May<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe webinar will aim to highlight lessons learned from past disaster recovery events, and consider how countries can start preparing for a recovery that is climate-sensitive, inclusive and contributes to global efforts to build more resilient systems that are better placed to prevent such crises in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Data-Driven Decision-Maker: Business Analytics Executive Overview – May 11 2020 – May 11 2021<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis course will focus on understanding key analytics concepts and the breadth of analytic possibilities. Together, the class will explore dozens of real-world analytics problems and solutions across most major industries and business functions. The course will also touch on analytic technologies, architectures, and roles from business intelligence to data science, and from data warehouses to data lakes. And the course will wrap up with a discussion of analytics trends and futures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Call for paper –\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>12th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI20), DDI \u2013 The Basis of Managing the\u00a0Data\u00a0Life Cycle<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Data Documentation Initiative (DDI<\/a>) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. For the European DDI User Conference 2020, we are seeking presentations, talks, papers, posters on all things DDI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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