19 Dec 2014
Urbanization is the single most important transformation that the African continent will undergo this century. More than half of Africa’s population will live in its cities by 2040. Well-managed urbanization has the potential to propel growth, e...
Tags: Report, Urban Risk Reduction
31 Mar 2015
After a large-scale disaster, there is always a massive effort to collect and analyze large volumes of data and distill from the chaos the critical information needed to target humanitarian aid most efficiently. But the response to the 2010 earthquak...
Tags: Report, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Mobile Technology
26 Nov 2017
The 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop was held 31 October – 1 November, in Hong Kong, China. The host of this Workshop was Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems