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Gender Transformative Early Warning System

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

AASCTF Digital Solutions Brief: Big Data for COVID-19 Tracking

3 September 2020
This 2-page document discusses how digital solutions such as big data analytics have proven to be critical tools in analyzing spread patterns of COVID-19 in cities, with specific use cases in Indonesia and Australia.

Transformational Solutions to Scale Up Adaptation and Resilience

3 September 2020

Upstream Actions for Environmental, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Transport Infrastructure

26 August 2020

Understanding Disease Transmission and Health Risks through Water Systems

25 August 2020
This presentation discussed how an integrated approach contributes to the understanding of health risks in water systems, mainly on freshwater systems, looking at drivers, pressures, state, impact, and responses, citing a few examples of innovative monitoring and modeling used in forecasting and…

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.