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Urban Flood Forecast Early Warning System

19 March 2021
Numerous studies rank Kolkata among the top ten most vulnerable cities in the world due to high exposure to flooding under climate change projections. Kolkata City faces most of its floods from local rains. High spatial inhomogeneity in rainfall distribution makes urban flood forecasting a…

Smart Water Management under the West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project

17 March 2021
West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project in India is under implementation in rural areas in 3 districts. These are the smart water management solutions that the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) of the Government of West Bengal are implementing with support from DHI-TCE:…

City-wide inclusive sanitation: WaterAid’s experience

11 June 2020
This presentation provided an overview of WaterAid’s approach, including (i) WaterAid’s framing of citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS); (ii) town-wide modeling: the experience in Sakhipur, Bangladesh; (iii) research and influencing to address the working conditions of sanitation workers (global…

Machine Learning-Based Prediction Models

25 May 2020
KMPG shares how predictive modeling can help in decision making in the context of COVID-19 response.

Case Study: Utilizing "Test Yourself" App in the State of Goa to Contain and Monitor the COVID-19 Situation

25 May 2020
Learn about the Test Yourself app, which is designed to enable healthcare organizations and governments to respond virtually to the novel-Coronavirus pandemic to protect, educate and care for their residents in the community.

COVID-19: Contact Tracing and Digital Monitoring Using Arogya Setu Application

25 May 2020
Aarogya Setu is a COVID-19 tracking mobile application developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which is now widely used in India. Learn how the app has helped in contract tracing and digital monitoring in India.

Use of Technology Interventions in the Time of COVID-19: Ground Report from Kerala

25 May 2020
Check out how technology, collaboration, and empathy are embedded in the COVID-19 response of the Indian state of Kerala.

Education and Coronavirus: KL University, India

30 April 2020
This presentation shares the role of blended learning to ensure that students remain engaged during the COVID-19 pandemic. This material focuses on KL University’s approach to blended learning and engagement.

Exploring a Dynamic Relationship between Transportation Strategies and Community Liveability: A Case of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration

18 March 2020
The paper assesses the spatial dimensions by considering the evolution of the conurbation in four phases, and by looking at cumulative causation of the sequence of impacts of maritime, road, rail, air and ITeS communication networks on liveability within the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in India.

Assessing Groundwater Resource Potential Using GRACE Anomalies in Maharashtra, India

23 January 2020
ADB's Sanmugam Prathapar shared how the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite offers an alternative to historic piezometric data to guide groundwater management. A case study on Maharashtra, India analyzed state and regional spatial scales, and correlations between rainfall and…