Open source data and tools for DRM
Stuart Fraser
GeONG16, Chambery, October 19 2016
Risk information for All and for a Purpose
Analyze Hazards and Vulnerability
Map Exposure
Develop an understanding of Risks and Impacts & communicate it
Invest in safe critical assets and
resilient development
Promote preparedness & rapid responsebefore disasters
Understand and Improve Fiscal
Resilience(DRFI)
Recover from the worst
(Resilient Recovery)
Innovative tools and methodologies to engage with all stakeholders to promote collaboration, analysis, sharing and USE of risk data and
information
Promoting best practices in risk information
Open Data for Resilience: Creating Data
Consultant driven
Expensive upfront
Opaque collection
Recurring costs
Static
Out of date
Unengaged
Unaffordable
Unchanging
The traditional approach:
Open Data for Resilience: Creating Data
Collaborative
Builds Gov’t capacity
to understand risk
Raises community
awareness of risk
Resources focused
towards building
capacity
Transparent &
Reusable
Building local
ownership and trust
in the data
Foster more usage
of the data
Scalable and
Maintainable
A new solution:
TECHNICAL
INSTITUTIONAL
Open Data for Resilience: Creating Data
Haiti
One month after2010 Haiti:
> 600 volunteers
from 29 countries
> 1.2 million
edits
~1 year of work
completed in 20
days
West Africa Ebola:
>2,000 volunteers
>12 million edits
>62 km of roads
>11,000 places
>500,000
buildings
Monrovia
After
Haiti
Before
Monrovia
Before
Open Data for Resilience: Sharing Information
Open Data for Resilience: Building Awareness
Building “hazard awareness” into all development projects
Current Situation: often need advanced expertise and experience (and time) to determine hazard levels in a project area (e.g. pga, probability of exceedance, AAL, return periods)
As a result, development professionals from across bilateral, multi-lateral institutions, NGO’s, etc., are often only considering the obvious hazards
The Future: selection of a project location provides clear information on hazard potential, the steps to follow to reduce risk / build resilience into a project
Think Hazard!
thinkhazard.org
thinkhazard.org
thinkhazard.org