[Okfn-dk] OpenData - WorldBank - Disastar managment

[Ove Larsen]

Open Data for Resilience Initiative field guide
from World Bank <http://reliefweb.int/organization/world-bank>,
GFDRR<http://reliefweb.int/organization/gfdrr>
Published on 19 Mar 2014
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New Field Guide Explores Open Data Innovations in Disaster Risk and
Resilience

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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   The new World Bank Group field guide provides practical guidance for
   governments and organizations as they build their own open data programs
   for addressing disaster risk and resilience.
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   It shows how participatory mapping projects can fill in government data
   gaps and keep existing data relevant as cities rapidly expand.
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   Among the guide's success stories are projects that quickly mapped
   disaster damage in the Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda and helped improve
   urban planning in Kathmandu.

>From Indonesia to Bangladesh to Nepal, community members armed with
smartphones and GPS systems are contributing to some of the most extensive
and versatile maps ever created, helping inform policy and better prepare
their communities for disaster risk.

In Jakarta, more than 500 community members have been trained to collect
data on thousands of hospitals, schools, private buildings, and critical
infrastructure. In Sri Lanka, government and academic volunteers mapped
over 30,000 buildings and 450 km of roadways using a collaborative online
resource called OpenStreetMaps.

These are just a few of the projects that have been catalyzed by the Open
Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) <https://www.gfdrr.org/opendri>,
developed by the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery (GFDRR). Launched in 2011, OpenDRI is active in more than 20
countries today, mapping tens of thousands of buildings and urban
infrastructure, providing more than 1,000 geospatial datasets to the
public, and developing innovative application tools.

To expand this work, the World Bank Group has launched the OpenDRI Field
Guide as a showcase of successful projects and a practical guide for
governments and other organizations to shape their own open data programs.

"Economic losses from natural disasters have risen from $50 billion each
year in the 1980s to just under $200 billion each year in the last decade;
about three-quarters of those losses are a result of extreme weather," said
Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate
change, who was launching the guide at a Climate Data Initiative event in
Washington. "This field guide will enable our many partners to better
incorporate the values of the open data community into their efforts to
build climate and disaster resilience."

The field guide walks readers through the steps to build open data programs
based on the OpenDRI methodology. One of the first steps is data collation.
Relevant datasets are often locked because of proprietary arrangements or
fragmented in government bureaucracies. The field guide explores tools and
methods to enable the participatory mapping projects that can fill in gaps
and keep existing data relevant as cities rapidly expand.

One example is GeoNode <http://geonode.org/>, a locally controlled and open
source cataloguing tool that helps manage and visualize geospatial data.
The tool, already in use in two dozen countries, can be modified and easily
be integrated into existing platforms, giving communities greater control
over mapping information.

GeoNode was used extensively after Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) swept the
Philippines with 300 km/hour winds and a storm surge of over six meters
last fall. The storm displaced nearly 11 million people and killed more
than 6,000.

An event-specific GeoNode project was created immediately and ultimately
collected more than 72 layers of geospatial data, from damage assessments
to situation reports. The data and quick analysis capability contributed to
recovery efforts and is still operating in response mode at Yolandadata.org.
<http://yolandadata.org/>

InaSAFE: Targeting Risk Reduction

A sister project, InaSAFE <http://inasafe.org/en/>, is an open, easy-to-use
tool for creating impact assessments for targeted risk reduction. The
assessments are based on how an impact layer - such as a tsunami, flood, or
earthquake - affects exposure data, such as population or buildings.

With InaSAFE, users can generate maps and statistical information that can
be easily disseminated and even fed back into projects like GeoNode for
simple, open source sharing.

The initiative, developed in collaboration with AusAID and the Government
of Indonesia, was put to the test in the 2012 flood season in Jakarta, and
its successes provoked a rapid national rollout and widespread interest
from the international community.

Open Cities: Improving Urban Planning & Resilience

The Open Cities project <http://opencitiesproject.com/>, another program
operating under the OpenDRI platform, aims to catalyze the creation,
management and use of open data to produce innovative solutions for urban
planning and resilience challenges across South Asia.

In 2013, Kathmandu was chosen as a pilot city, in part because the
population faces the highest mortality threat from earthquakes in the
world. Under the project, teams from the World Bank assembled partners and
community mobilizers to help execute the largest regional community mapping
project to date. The project surveyed more than 2,200 schools and 350
health facilities, along with road networks, points of interest, and
digitized building footprints - representing nearly 340,000 individual data
nodes.

Fostering a Spirit of Innovation & Collaboration

These projects are just a few of the tools highlighted by the OpenDRI Field
Guide to help governments and organizations better utilize open data to
combat risks from natural disasters and climate change.

By fostering a spirit of innovation and collaboration, the OpenDRI Field
Guide will enable communities to continue to develop targeted, open source
tools for disaster risk reduction, promising a clearer path towards
increased resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable communities.
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