E-Resilience & Recovery

A report offering guidelines and lessons learned for establishing and institutionalizing disaster loss databases, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

PreventionWeb is a web-based platform for the disaster risk community offering news, tools, maps, publications and a collaborative environment.

Platform for earthquake-related information for use by government departments and other stakeholders engaged in disaster recovery and reconstruction.

The portable backpack-type mobile base station can be applied in disaster situations when communications networks are unavailable.

The Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards is a multidisciplinary research center with the goal of helping reduce the impacts of hazards.

InaSAFE is free software that produces realistic natural hazard impact scenarios for better planning, preparedness and response activities.

GFDRR provides an overview of PDNAs, labeled by country, year and disaster type on its website to assist in recovery and reconstruction planning.

The Sentinel Asia initiative is a collaborative effort for applying remote sensing and Web-GIS technologies to support disaster management in the Asia-Pacific region.

The UN-APCICT virtual academy offers training modules in ICT for Disaster Risk Management, among others.

Sahana is a free, open-source modular software platform for disaster management and humanitarian assistance.

IDRN is a web-based platform for managing inventories of equipment, human resources and critical supplies for emergency response.

PAGASA provides weather forecasts and risk / flood hazard maps through ICT in the Philippines.

EM-DAT is an online database of historical disaster related information maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Its is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.

The AI weather chatbot directly interacts with users through mobile phones giving weather related information in Singapore.

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology of Cambodia provides weather-related maps and information.

JakSAFE is a system designed to estimate the damage and loss (including infrastructure) due to flood events in Jakarta, based on information sourced from BPBD, external reports, social media and field observations.