Open Data for Disaster Risk Reduction

Craig Duncan UNISDR

7 Concepts7 Initiatives

Disaster = badPrevention = good

1) Disasters are Visible Risk is Invisible

2) RISK ?

HazardExposureVulnerability

3) Intensive vs. Extensive risk

4) Mortality vs. Economic loss

5) Private gain vs. Socialized loss

6) Direct loss vs. Indirect loss

7) Exogenous vs. Endogenous

dis aster = bad star (latin)

cata strophe = down turn (greek)

7 OPEN Initiatives

1) InfoRM: Index for Risk Management

2) Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL)

3) Reeep Open Thesaurus

4) DesInventar.net

5) Global Risk Model

Deterministic vs.Probabalistic risk

Average annual lossProbable maximum loss

Return period

6) OpenDRi

7) 100 terms in 100 languages

Living with Risk

MitigateTransferAccept

Open dataOpen modelsOpen knowledge

= Informed decisions

preventionweb.net/opendata