The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Online Workshop “New Technology vs Disaster Risk Reduction: Opportunities and Emerging Risks” will be held on 4 May, 8:00-9:30 AM UTC / 10:00-12:30 AM CEST.
This workshop will focus on Priority 5 “Harness technologies, data and knowledge for risk reduction”. As stated in the Research Framework, rapid technological advances in the areas of artificial intelligence, digitalization and analytical capacity and the very widespread adoption of mobile devices and social media are driving major changes in our lives and have the potential to contribute to risk reduction and the development of Open Science.
The registration link is available in this link.
Panelists:
- UNESCO Recommendation on Ethic of AI: why it matters and how to bridge AI divide, reported by Hu Xianhong, Programme Specialist, UNESCO
- Cross-Domain Data Interoperability Framework for Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction, reported by Bapon Fakhruddin, IRDR SC member, co-chair of IRDR Working Group on Data
- Existential Risk and Rapid Technological Change: Advancing Risk-informed Development, reported by Maxime Stauffer, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
- Advancing open science infrastructures for disaster mitigation, reported by Li Jianhui, Vice President, CODATA
- An Open Cocktail of Engineering, AI, DRR…, reported by Li Pan, Executive Director, AI & Big Data Working Group of the WFEO Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies (CEIT)
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