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Indonesia’s IT Community Joins Disaster Risk Management Hackathon

Avatar photo Jessica Ports Robbins March 19, 2015

Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, is prone to natural disasters such as floods and fires. The World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction & Recovery (GFDRR) and the Jakarta Disaster Management Agency held a competition to gather ideas on how information technology can be used in disaster situations.

– World Bank, 2014

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