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Access the past and foretell the future: Peering into the crystal ball of early action |
Organizer: NASA and IFRC
| From earth observations and weather forecasts to machine learning and predictive modeling, the science and technology of today enables people and organizations to collect decades of data and improve our understanding of future risks. Whether we are preparing to host displaced populations, anticipating destructive floods, alerting urban inhabitants to take action to protect themselves against heat waves or mitigating the risk of famine, information is being used to make increasingly complex decisions about constantly shifting vulnerabilities. Despite this progress, information does not always lead to action before crisis unfolds. New approaches are needed to bridge the gap in moving from information to decisions – this includes new partnerships across the humanitarian sector and beyond. This workshop intends to actively engage participants in proposing and identifying different types of solutions, with a focus on the intersection of social science, data science, and climate science. It will also provide a fun and informal networking opportunity between participants and the different types of partnerships available in to advance the science, technology and communications necessary for the development and scaling up of innovative solutions towards early / anticipatory action. This session will be divided into two parts. In the first part, we will learn from experts about the different solutions applied to help organizations and individual to act ahead of an impending crisis through science, pre-planning and financing. Participants will be invited to share their expertise and identify other tools or approaches to enable early / anticipatory action. In the second part, partnerships and initiatives will tell us what they do, what they can offer and why you should collaborate with them to enable the scale up of early action. Speakers include experts from the Anticipation Hub, Climate Risk Early Warning Systems Initiative, Earth Observation for Humanitarian Action, German Red Cross, Humanitarian Open Street Map, InsuResilience Global Partnership, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the World Bank. Imagine your ideal platform for knowledge exchange and networking. Tell us your ideas! Kick back, relax and join us in this matchmaking fun! |
Speakers:
Kara Siahaan, Early Action and Disaster Risk Financing Coordinator, IFRC, Anticipation Hub Lead for Network and Policy, Anticipation Hub
Shanna McClain, Global Partnerships Manager, NASA
Rebecca Firth, Director of Community and Partnerships, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
John Harding, Head of Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems
Nicola Ranger, Senior Consultant for Crisis and Disaster Risk Financing, World Bank
Daniel Stadtmüller, Senior Policy Advisor and Team Lead, InsuResilience Secretariat
Madhab Uprety, Technical Advisor, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Ben Webster, Head of REAP Secretariat
Stefanie Lux, Lead, Anticipation Unit at the German Red Cross