Defining a Decade of Global Sustainability Science Action: Call for Inputs
The International Science Council has let us know that the call for inputs invited below will remain (silently) open until 16 October. Please take the opportunity to contribute to this important consultation to shape a priority action agenda for science that will...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: October 2020 Edition
New Zealand first in the world to require climate risk reporting New Zealand will be the first country in the world to require the financial sector to report on climate risks, the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw has announced. The changes build on the huge...
Register now: Webinar on Should I stay or should I go now? Why communication is the critical component in disaster prevention
Even with the global sharing of data and sophisticated satellite systems that can flash messages around in the world in seconds – why do early warning systems still fail? It’s because information is only useful if you understand what it means and know what...
2020 International Symposium on COVID-19 at Academia Sinica, Taipei on 5-6 October
Since early 2020, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading quickly through over 100 countries around the world, and millions of people have been infected as of May 2020. The outbreak of the pandemic has brought relentless challenges to human health...
Register now : Webinar on Data-Driven Governance in Sustainable Cities: New models for public-private data sharing
Date: 19 October 2020 Time: 18:00 HKT (3:30 IST) Duration: 45 min session and 15 min Question Answers (Total 1 hour) Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7106538784656814350 Open Data has contributed a lot to analyse and support urban...
TWO WEEKS TO GO! The deadline to submit session proposals for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium is 30 September
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place as an innovative, entirely virtual event on 30 November to 4 December Submit a proposal for a session, DEADLINE 30 September: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/ Submit a proposal for a...
Webinar 16 Sept: African Universities in Post COVID-19: assessing the opportunities and challenges of online learning
On 16 September at 11:00 UTC / 14:00 Nairobi, Joseph Muliaro Wafula, member of the CODATA Executive Committee will participate in a webinar on assessing the opportunities and challenges of online learning for African Universities in the post COVID world....
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2020 Edition
World Bank: Hurricanes don’t know borders. Neither does a pandemic. In the field of disaster risk management, when a new risk appears in an already risky situation, we call it a compound risk. The COVID-19 pandemic means communities need to prepare even more...
ONE MONTH TO GO! The deadline to submit session proposals for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium is 30 September
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place as an innovative, entirely virtual event on 30 November to 4 December Submit a proposal for a session, DEADLINE 30 September: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/ Submit a proposal for a...
August 2020: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: SparkNN: A Distributed In-Memory Data Partitioning for KNN Queries on Big Spatial Data Author: Zaher Al Aghbari, Tasneem Ismail, Ibrahim Kamel URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-035 Title: Unified Geomagnetic Database from Different Observation Networks for...