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Flood early warning in Asia, exploring new solutions

8 September 2020
This presentation discussed Deltares' experience with flood early warning systems in Asia.

Gender Transformative Early Warning System

8 September 2020
This presentation discussed Practical Action's work on gender-transformative early warning systems.

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19: New Data Sources, New Insights

18 August 2020
This presentation discussed how big data can be used to support analysis of highly interconnected and complex policy problems, and how a single data source can have multiple applications. It also underscored how COVID-19 has exposed and reinforced the digital divide across multiple dimensions, from…

Spatial Data Analysis of COVID-19 in Makassar

18 August 2020
This presentation discussed how Ur-scape, a GIS-based visualization and data tool developed by the Future Cities Laboratory, was used to perform a cross-sectoral analysis in the Indonesian city of Makassar to identify positive correlations between COVID-19 transmission patterns and population…

Amazon Web Services COVID-19 Data Lake

18 August 2020
This presentation discussed how public data lakes, such as AWS's COVID-19 Data Lake can be an essential source of knowledge to get insights from local communities and cities and to build situational awareness rapidly. It also pointed out how cloud platforms can support customers to speed up the…

Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 and Beyond this Pandemic

18 August 2020
This presentation discussed mitigation measures against indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19, such as appropriate building engineering controls, such as sufficient and effective ventilation, air disinfection, avoiding air recirculation, and overcrowding. It also emphasized the need for new…

ADB Business Opportunities (Urban)

12 August 2020
This presentation gives an overview of ongoing and upcoming ADB business opportunities relevant to the urban sector.

Overview of ADB Strategy 2030 and Operational Priority 4 & Business Opportunities in the Urban Sector

28 July 2020
This presentation gives an overview of ADB's Operational Priority 4: Livable Cities and business opportunities in the urban sector.

High Speed Rail and Spatial Scenarios for Europe 2050

26 June 2020
This presentation illustrated the likely impacts of high-speed rail projects on spatial development in Europe based on the ESPON project ET2050 (Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe) conducted in 2011-2014. The objective of the ESPON project was to develop a vision of the spatial structure…

HSR, Accessibility and Regional Economy in Japan

26 June 2020
This presentation illustrated the regional accessibility and economic impacts of high speed rail (HSR) development in Japan since its inception in 1964. Comparison of the case of Japanese HSR impacts were also made with that of European case presented in the main presentation of this webinar to…