Author: Bapon Fakhruddin
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Sinking, swimming and surfing- risk communications of uncertainties of the pandemic
Uncertainties in the COVID-19 impact assessment are inevitable. In order to understand various approaches to uncertainty and model implications, they need to holistically analyze. An inherently high level of uncertainty is associated with pandemic assessments derived with parametric approaches. While higher degrees of accuracy may be achieved with data-intensive based models, uncertainties are still associated…
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UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’
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Disaster and Data Newsletter- April 2020
Read April 2020 Edition of our #DRR and #Data Newsletter on behalf of #Disaster DATA Working Group of Integrated Research on Disaster #Risk(IRDR) programme of ICS/UNISDR, CODATA task group Linked Open Data for #Global Disaster Risk #Research (LODGD), #SustainableDevelopment #Solution #Network, Public #Health England and Tonkin+Taylor. Feel free to subscribe! https://tonkintaylor.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/t/EE0AD84805B9C2B02540EF23F30FEDED/19002BF28E5507822018F019E6F15D33
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Multi-hazards early warning system for Dominica
With golden sands, azure-hued waters and temperature averages sitting nicely in the mid-20s, the island nation of Dominica in the Caribbean is a picturesque paradise you’d see on a postcard or a screensaver. It’s Dominica’s tropical location that gives it its paradise-like qualities. That same location however, leaves Dominica prone to hurricanes, high-wind, high-rainfall, earthquakes,…
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Preferences for improved early warning services among coastal communities at risk in cyclone
Cyclone early warning systems are the primary sources of information that enable people to develop a preparedness strategy to mitigate the hazards of cyclones to lives and livelihoods. In Bangladesh, cyclone early warnings have significantly decreased the number of cyclone related fatalities over the last two decades. Nevertheless, several challenges remain for existing early warning…
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Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum – Vanuatu
The Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum was recently held in Vanuatu, with policymakers, financial risk managers and development partners from the region and around the globe converging upon Port Vila to strengthen regional collaboration in the Pacific. Co-organised by the Government of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) and the World Bank’s Disaster…
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter- September 2018
DRR and data in the news Google Cloud and other SDG partners launch new programme for students Mobilizing Youth on Data for Action and Transformation in Africa New website drives logistics planning and preparation for natural disasters in Pacific IWMI, CGIAR and CCAFS partner to map climate-related hazards in South Asia Scientists gather social…
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Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter – August 2018 Edition
DRR and data in the news Scientific collections and databases review by MBIE, New Zealand LINZ report on 15 August will improve datasets for resilience in New Zealand IBM with humanitarian organisations as partners launched Call for Code Global Initiative to support disaster recovery KDDI, OYO and Toyota using IoT to gather data for disaster…
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Climate Resilience Transport System – Dream Cambodia Project a First for Asia
The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) of Cambodia is executing the Asia Development Bank (ADB) financed “Rural Roads Improvement Project”, with Nordic Development Fund (NDF) providing parallel grant financing for Climate Change Adaptation Output (CCAO). The project is a first for Asia and ADB is keen to see the Kingdom of Cambodia pilot replicated in…
Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD 