Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD

Water and Climate Leader| Strategic Investment Partnerships and Co-Investments| Professor| EW4ALL| Board Member| Chair- CODATA TG| Award Winner (SDG 2021, EWS 2025)

Category: Disaster risk reduction

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…