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This webinar explored how government can leverage frontier technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and resilience, profiling success cases and addressing the barriers to scaling these innovations across developing country contexts.
Frontier technologies present rapidly evolving opportunities to ensure resilience across developed and developing countries. Governments are increasingly leveraging frontier technologies to ensure resilience and mitigate disaster and climate risks. Amid a changing climate, threats from disasters are multiplying with the potential to setback progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Digital government and innovations in the technology space are increasingly significant in building a resilient society and mitigating the diversity of disaster risks and shocks. By leveraging innovations in technology such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), big data, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and more, governments can be better equipped to effectively anticipate, prepare, and respond to the multiplying threat of disasters from climate change.
The webinar was designed in response to express requests from member states regarding further online training on disaster risk reduction and government innovation to strengthen resilience of efforts to achieve the SDGs. The webinar addressed the key barriers that arise in technology transfer, along with risks, vulnerabilities, and solutions to accelerate the use of frontier technologies in DRR related public services. Read more
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