Indonesia’s IT Community Joins Disaster Risk Management Hackathon

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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