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The Community Sessions are organized by individu:al organizations and include virtual training sessions, workshops, and stakeholder meetings. In total, there are nearly 100 side events to choose from.

Below you find a list of the Community Sessions taking place in Timezone Block 2:  09:00 – 13:00 UTC (business hours for West Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe).

For the most updated version of the agenda, please refer to ‘Interactive agenda‘ where you can bookmark your sessions to your calendar.

Tuesday, Dec 1, UTC 9:00 – 13:00

UTC 9:00 to 11:30: Opening Ceremony hosted by Kaori Enjoji, Journalist

UTC 12:00 – 12.55: Acting early before disasters: What can go wrong?; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

UTC 12:00 – 12.55: Disruptive tech for Africa; World Bank, DLR

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Fire resilience at the urbanising margins; School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Harnessing the evolution of earth observations and risk; Earth Observations (GEO)

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: The Risk Data Library Project: Developing an open standard for risk data; Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery GFDRR

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Racism, Exclusion & Risk: Harnessing Humor for Hard Conversations; GFDRR

Wednesday, Dec 2, UTC 09:00 – 13:00

UTC 9:00 to 9:55: Plenary – Crisis Communication in a time of COVID-19

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: Building Climate Resilience together: Race for Resilience along shared Marrakech Partnership pathways.; GRP / CRN + FAO/A2R *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: Nature-based solutions: Balancing risk and societal benefits; Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, University of Bologna, IHE Delft, ICATALIST 

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: The future of precipitation monitoring and forecasting in Africa; HKV, GMet, KNMI, NADMO, TAHMO

UTC 10:00 to 11:55: Risk information from the decision maker’s perspective: What they wish you knew and what they need you to tell them; REAP

UTC 10:00 to 10:55:  Carousel talks: Latest developments in the science and technology for early warning early action – Student Edition; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: Risk thinking versus resilience thinking; Royal HaskoningDHV

UTC 10:00 to 11:55: What’s the news in anticipatory action?; Red Cross Climate Centre

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: Reshaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19; Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), World Resources Institute (WRI), International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Complex Systems in Transition (CST) *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: What do we learn when we map a city? Voices and impacts from Open Cities Africa; World Bank / GFDRR; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

UTC 11:00 to 12:55: Using “adaptation technologies” to improve policy and planning at national level; Practical Action / IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days

UTC 11:00 to 12:55: Unpacking multi-hazard early warning systems: From concepts to measurable reduction of disaster risks and impacts; World Meteorological Organization (WMO), others TBC

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: Land and geospatial information systems: A cornerstone to improve resilience; The World Bank

UTC 11:00 to 12:55: Resilience Academy as a sustainability solution for urban resilience skills development in Africa; University of Turku – Finland, Ardhi University – Dar es Salaam, Sokoine University of Agriculture – Zanzibar, University of Dar es Salaam – Dar es Salaam, State University of Zanzibar – Morogoro, World Bank Tanzania.

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Future/risk/tick √: future climate projections show us a possible future. Do early actions, which help people now, also prepare people for the future impacts of climate change?; Met Office, the UK’s National Meteorological Service

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: How big is your appetite (for making a difficult decision)?; Satarla

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Designing Schools of the Future to Build Education Resilience post COVID-19; The World Bank’s Global Program for Safer Schools, The World Bank Education Global Practice

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Are present-day infrastructure disaster risk models still applicable in a post Covid-19 world?; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lloyds Register Foundation, Resilience Shift, University of Oxford

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: An interdisciplinary approach to forecasting and early warning systems; Water Youth Network, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Center of Applied Research in Hydrometeorology (CRAHI), University of Reading

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Climate vulnerability, social protection and early action: what are the linkages; Red Cross REd Crescent Climate Centre

Thursday, Dec 3, UTC 09:00 – 13:00

UTC 9:00 to 9:55: Plenary – Racism, Exclusion & Risk

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: Biodiversity loss is an underestimated risk: climate, development and business perspectives; IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: European Commission MISSION on Adaptation to Climate Change with Societal Transformation; Public Health England

UTC 10:00 to 11:55: Breaking the silos: From single to comprehensive multi-hazard risk frameworks; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; Philippines Red Cross, German Red Cross and 510, an initiative of the Netherlands Red Cross; Deltares; Marsh & McLennan Advantage, Singapore; UN MGCY

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: What is a flood? Risk perceptions and decisions; World Bank (Urban Floods Community of Practice), NUS Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, NUS Deltares

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: We need champions to understand disaster risk; GEO-Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories initiative GEO-GSNL; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV, Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale – CIMA, Goma Volcano Observatory, Iceland Civil Protection, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security – UNU-EHS / Eurac Research

UTC 10:00 to 11:55: How to construct an inclusive city weather and early warning system; Resurgence

UTC 10:00 to 10:55: Building urban resilience in southern Africa; World Bank, SADC, DIMSUR

UTC 10:00 to 11:55: Towards proactive disaster risk management: Benefits and challenges in linking early warning with risk financing; InsuResilience Secretariat / Anticipation Hub (German Red Cross, IFRC, Climate Centre)

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: Managing risk through Nature-based Solutions; IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: SSTL x The World Bank HADR Challenge Pitching Session; Singapore Space and Technology Limited (SSTL); Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF)

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: A toolkit for landslide early warning systems; Practical Action, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, British Geological Survey, King’s College London, Imperial College London, University of Birmingham, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, UK Met Office, Geological Survey India, Amrita University, Newcastle University, Tribhuvan University, Society of Hydrologists and Meteorologists, Kathmandu Living Labs, Nepal Department for Hydrology and Meteorology, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Geological Survey of Austria, University of Geneva, Wageningen University, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

UTC 11:00 to 12:55: Launch of the Global Model for Earthquake Social Vulnerability and Resilience; Global Earthquake Model (GEM)

UTC 11:00 to 11:55: Drawing a regional picture of hydromet and early warning services in Africa; World Bank, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD, SADC

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: RiskChanges: An open source tool for multi-hazard risk assessment and decision making; Geoinformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology – ITC, University of Twente

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: The development impact of open risk analytics; Risk Modelling Group of the Insurance Development Forum, InsuResilience Secretariat

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Doing drainage differently: Tackling urban flooding in the future mega-city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; World Bank

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Recalibrating approaches towards urban resilience investments: System thinking and prioritization methods for decision making; The World Bank

UTC 12:00 to 12:55: Understanding Nature and Risk: Modelling of nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction and analytics; JBA Consulting

UTC 13:00 to 13:30: Closing Ceremony

Friday, Dec 4, UTC 10:00 – 13:00 – HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) Summit

UR2020 is proud to host the HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) Summit, which is also looking back over 10 years of their community, which has been active in the UR Community for many years. The Summit occurs throughout Friday, December 4. All UR Community members are invited to join their Summit. 

UTC 10:00 to 10:20: Opening remarks from Miriam Gonzales: HOT Board President & Claire Melamed, CEO of Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

UTC 10:20 to 10:40: Dialogue – Zacharia Muindi, Map Kibera: Kenya Covid Tracker: Tracking Covid-19 cases and resources in informal settlements

UTC 10:40 to 10:48: Parallel lightning talk

  1. Samson Ngumenawe, MapUganda: How we responded to Covid-19 Pandemic by Mapping Uganda Border Towns with HOT Rapid Response Microgrant
  2. Victor Sunday, Unique Mappers Network, Nigeria: Assessing Women Empowerment Needs Using Open Data And GeoSpatial Skills: Implications for SDGs in Nigeria

UTC 10:48 to 10:55: Parallel lightning talk

  1. Mark Herringer, Open Healthsite Consulting LTD: Mapping Emergency Health Services in Senegal
  2. Oguzhan Er, Yer Cizenler: Volunteer Activiation and Creating Documentation

UTC 10:55 to 11:02: Parallel lightning talk

  1. Marcel Reinmuth, University Heidelberg: OpenStreetMap for healthcare access
  2. Muhammad Saleem, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente: Dashboard to monitor spatial data quality compliance of OpenStreetMap for humanitarian action

UTC 11:02 to 11:10: Parallel lightning talk

  1. Bienvenu Muluba, Jackson Mumbere Kombi, HOT/OSM DRC: Community use of map data in Nord-Kivu
  2. Deo Kiggudde, HOT: MapUganda a Drone tech OSM Community in Uganda

UTC 11:10 to 11:30: Parallel dialogue

  1. Darafei Praliaskouski & Tatsiana Karvat, Kontur: Kontur Population Dataset & disaser.ninja feedback session
  2. Olivier Ngoie Inabanza, CarTeS: Digital Elevation model integration in open street map model

UTC 11:30 to 11:50: Dialogue – Michael Montani & Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro, United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC) – Mapping for Peace : Unite Maps initiative challenges

UTC 11:50 to 11:55: Audacious Donors Pre-recorded Videos

UTC 11:55 to 12:18: Dialogue – Hannah Ker, MapAction/UCL/HeiGIT: Beyond the mapathon: Considering the Sustainability of community engagement and data production in humanitarian mapping activities *note extended dialogue is parallel to lightning talks

UTC 11:55 to 12:03: Lightning talk – Micheal Yani, OpenStreetMap Community South Sudan: Building an Exclusive Mapping Community in South Sudan

UTC 12:03 – 12:10: Lightning talk – Solomon Kica, Resilience Mappers: Developing a web map repository of Kampala’s Informal Settlements: Kawempe Division

UTC 12:10 to 12:18: Lightning talk – Herry Kasunga, Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania: Mapping to improve planning for access to water

UTC 12:18 to 12:25: Lighting talk – Federica Gaspari, Politecnico di Milano: HOT Data Quality Internship: results and prespectives of a collaborative project

UTC 12:25 to 12:40: Parallel failfest

  1. Tommy Charles, OSM- Sierra Leone: Reviving and Expanding the OSM Community in Sierra Leone & Supports to keep communities alive
  2. Manon Viou, CartONG: Adjusting our refugee site mapping standardization strategy in compliance with good OSM practices : the experience of one tag proposal

UTC 12:40 to 13:00: Closing remarks