DataforDisasterRiskReduction

In Episode 3 of the podcast series, Dr. Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson speaks with Ana Ortigoza about data life cycle, complex interconnections in health, and methods to be adopted to build trust.

Dr. Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson is a data and information ethicist passionate about future digital and data infrastructure. She is Principal/Founder of Connecting Stones Consulting, Sydney Australia.

Her award-winning work as an educator and a researcher engages with the ever-evolving relationship between people and emerging technologies. As inaugural director of the Master of Data Science & Innovation program at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Anderson’s research guided the development of a uniquely transdisciplinary and human-centred curriculum.

Ana Ortigoza is a Research Fellow at the SALURBAL project – Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States. Ana’s research focuses on linking different aspects of the urban environments and maternal and child population health. She has been a paediatrician for almost 10 years. She is interested in how health inequalities among women and children/youth are linked to social and built environment in cities.

In the second episode of the series Pamela Carbajal, Urban health and regional planner (Planning, Finance and Economy Section). Global Solutions division talks about integrating health in urban planning. The episode also introduces a Sourcebook that has elaborated the concept of integrating health in urban and territorial planning. Pamela talks about the learnings while developing the sourcebook and the impact of Data-Knowledge-Action for Urban Systems with respect to health and urban planners.

Pamela is an Architect from the University of Technology of Monterrey, Mexico. Since January 2018, she works at UN-Habitat, particularly on Integrating health in Urban and Territorial Planning (UTP). She coordinates the program planning for healthy cities and has delivered capacity building activates and gives technical advisory to local and national governments.

Moreover, Pamela has a particular focus on building healthy environments and social inclusion. she had collaborated with WHO on developing the Sourcebook on Integrating health in UTP and a Compendium of Inspiring Practices.

Moreover, she has also supported Bolivia, Argentina, and Mexico on their National and Subnational Urban Policies development. And work with the Global Public Space Programme at UN-Habitat on citywide public spaces strategies for different cities in Latin America.

Previously, she worked at the Public Space Authority of Mexico City as part of the design team, assessing and designing public spaces. And at the Municipal Institute of Planning in Chihuahua, Mexico where she worked on a neighbourhood master plan.

In the first episode of the series, Dr. Simon Hodson speaks with Dr. Franz Gatzweiler about how are Data-Knowledge-Action (DAKAS) used in cities. Data-Knowledge-Action systems make use of scientific and quantitative data and help in creating intelligent urban systems.

Dr. Simon Hodson is the Executive Director of CODATA. Dr. Hodson is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. He has contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies and the Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World. Most recently he chaired the European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data which produced the report Turning FAIR into Reality. As part of his CODATA role, Dr. Hodson is closely involved in an ISC and CODATA initiative to improve the coordination of standards for data integration and interoperability for interdisciplinary research and in the coordination of the CODATA Data Policy Committee.

Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler is the Executive Director of the International Council for Science’s global programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Franz studied Agricultural Science at Bonn University and International Agricultural Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral research topic at Humboldt University was on the “Nature of Economic Value”. He teaches courses at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of Bonn. Currently, Dr. Gatzweiler is executive director of the global interdisciplinary programme on “Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach”, sponsored by the International Council of Science (ICSU), the United Nations University (UNU) and the Interacademy Medical Panel (IAMP).

In the introduction episode of the podcast series, Dr. Shaily Gandhi speaks with Dr. Simon Hodson and Dr. Franz Gatzweiler. Together, they discuss Data-Knowledge-Action systems and take a deep dive into the need for such systems for urban sectors.

Dr. Shaily Gandhi is Manager Informatics at CRDF. She is an alumnus of CODATA/RDA Summer school and one of the initiated Leads for the CODATA Connect Working group and a co-opted member of the CODATA Executive Committee. Dr. Gandhi has completed her PhD degree from CEPT University in 2018. She is also a faculty at CEPT University. Dr. Gandhi has been working on the implementation of GIS and data science in the domain of Urban Analytics.

Dr. Simon Hodson is the Executive Director of CODATA.  Dr. Hodson is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. He has contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies and the Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World.  Most recently he chaired the European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data which produced the report Turning FAIR into Reality. As part of his CODATA role, Dr. Hodson is closely involved in an ISC and CODATA initiative to improve the coordination of standards for data integration and interoperability for interdisciplinary research and in the coordination of the CODATA Data Policy Committee.

Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler is the Executive Director of the International Council for Science’s global programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Franz studied Agricultural Science at Bonn University and International Agricultural Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral research topic at Humboldt University was on the “Nature of Economic Value”. He teaches courses at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of Bonn. Currently, Dr. Gatzweiler is executive director of the global interdisciplinary programme on “Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach”, sponsored by the International Council of Science (ICSU), the United Nations University (UNU) and the Interacademy Medical Panel (IAMP).

In the final episode Prof. Shivanand Swamy, Director Emeritus, Center of Excellence in Urban Transport, CRDF is in conversation with Waltraut Ritter, independent researcher and founder of Knowledge Dialogues. They talk about data analytics supporting cities mobility and resilience, human intervention on transportation, BRTS issues in integration, and sustainable development goal for mobility. The episode also focuses on how data-driven models are used in transportation monitoring and data analytics for mobility to make cities resilient.

Prof. Shivanand Swamy is an economist and urban and regional planner with deep experience in transport systems, integrated land-use transport planning and development management. He has been teaching at CEPT University since 1986 and has served as a policy and systems advisor to National, State and Local Governments on transport planning initiatives across the country. He has been instrumental in spearheading the planning and operationalization of Janmarg, Ahmedabad, the first dedicated Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in India. He has also supported the planning and development of BRT systems in Surat, Indore, and Hubbali–Dharwad. Prof. Swamy has been an advisor to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India on evolving planning and design guidelines for BRTS and scaling up of bus-based services in Indian cities. He is currently involved in facilitating technology adoption, operations, financing, and capacity building for transitioning to electric public mobility in India. Prof. Swamy is an active member of the Developing Countries Committee of the Transport Research Board.

Waltraut Ritter is the founder of Knowledge Dialogues, specializing in research and advisory services relating to innovation, knowledge, and intellectual capital across the Asia‐Pacific region and Europe. She works on innovation projects at the intersection between universities, government, business, and civil society. Ritter is currently working on open innovation, a multi-stakeholder programme on transport data sharing for sustainable mobility in Hong Kong. She also regularly contributes to knowledge‐economy research of UNESCAP, UNESCO and OECD. She holds an MA in Information Science and Sociology from the Free University of Berlin and an MBA from Anglia University, Cambridge, U.K. Ritter is also a founding member of the New Club of Paris, a knowledge‐economy think tank, the International Council on Knowledge Management, and is serving on the ICT Committee of the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Macau.

In the upcoming episode Vikas Kanungo, Senior Digital Development Consultant, The World Bank is in conversation with Luis E. Bermudez, CEO, GeoSolutions.  They talk about problems accessing urban data, National Data Sharing Policy, data trends, use of data integration and sharing in the US, ISO trends and open-data standards and policy.

Vikas Kanungo is a Smart City and m-Governance expert, trainer and advisor with more than 25 years of experience in Digital Platforms and ICT solutions strategy.  During his 25 years of career in the ICT industry, he has worked at key consulting and advisory positions with the Government of India, The World Bank, UNDP, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), European Union agencies.  He has also worked at a host of corporate agencies in India, Asia and the Middle East.

He is currently engaged in a global Knowledge initiative on Green Growth-Oriented Smart Cities & Shared Services Digital Platforms for Smart Cities as a Senior Specialist with the World Bank.  He is the Chairman of the Society for Promotion of e-Governance (SPeG), India and Founder Director of mgovworld.org – A global observatory on mobile governance.

He has been working as a Senior e-Governance Consultant with The World Bank since 2008.  Vikas has mentored several start-ups in m-Governance, Smart Cities solutions and provides advisory services to several government agencies and corporates on next-generation digital technologies for the public services delivery.  Vikas has also worked as an advisor with the Government of India for the formulation of mobile governance policy.  He has been involved in a global study of Citizen engagement of grievance redress systems using next-generation technologies, advisory services for conceptualizing Smart City frameworks as a Senior Consultant with The World Bank.

Vikas has authored more than a dozen papers on e-Governance/Smart cities and is co-author of the book “Digital Divides: New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion” published by CRC Press in 2015.  His report titled “India – Journey from Knowledge Economy to Inclusive Information Society” was released by the Indian government during WSIS Summit in Geneva as an action taken report by India on MDGs realization.

He has been regularly giving presentations around the world and has spoken at institutions ranging from the UNDP and the World Bank to government-supported conferences in India, Oman, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Moldova, among many others.  Vikas has been a guest faculty for e-Governance courses in the Indian Institute of Public Administration, the National Academy of Direct Taxes and the Mudra Institute of Communication.

Dr. Luis Bermúdez is the CEO of GeoSolutions USA, one of the world’s leaders in supporting commercial, open-source geospatial software. Before joining GeoSolutions, Dr. Bermudez worked for 10 years at the Open Geospatial Consortium, advancing open standards used worldwide. First, as the Director of the Compliance Program and then as Executive Director of the Innovation Program. Previously he worked at a university consortium SURA in the architecture and implementation of a hurricane forecasting system in a distributed environment, using open standards. He also worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute developing real-time information systems from marine sensors. He earned his PhD in environmental Informatics at Drexel University in 2004.

In this episode of Contribution of Technology in Making Cities Resilient ,Vishnu Chandra talks to Ton De Vries.

The two speakers discuss Geo-Spatial technologies, a framework for data collection and preservation, use of data sources and data management plans along with open data initiatives for such systems. They also talk about expansion of geo-spatial technology to big data technologies and the role of governments and international organisations.

Vishnu Chandra is the Deputy Director General & Head of Group, National Informatics Center (NIC) Divisions (Geo-Spatial Technology & Services, MoHUA, MoEF&CC, Power, MoLE, MNRE and Coal).

Ton De Vries is Senior Director, Business Development Digital Cities, Bentley Systems Exton, Pennsylvania, United States.

In this episode of Using Big Data to Predict Natural Disasters, C.K. Koshy talks to Dr. Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin about theoretical framework for Disaster Management, methods adopted in the past for floods and droughts. They also discuss data challenges in the past and today, technology, data sharing and creating awareness among organizations.

C.K. Koshy retired from The Indian Administrative Service in 2005 in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary after a long and illustrious career spanning thirty-seven years in the higher echelons of the Government of Gujarat and the Govt. of India. He was the Secretary to the Govt of Gujarat of such crucial departments as Revenue, Industries and Finance as well as Managing Director of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam. He was Financial Advisor to the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India, under the Prime Minister and Executive Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation.

He was Relief Commissioner during the period 1985-87 when Gujarat faced unprecedented drought for three years in succession. He was Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue Department and had coordinated Relief efforts post the earthquake in 2001.

Since his retirement Mr. Koshy has been deeply involved in higher education. He has taught courses in Governance and Public Policy to postgraduate students at the CEPT University and was also associated with the Centre for Heritage Management at Ahmedabad University as Chief Executive. He has been an advisor to several urban research projects and programs including developing an Inventory of Public Lands in Ahmedabad and a World Bank funded project on managing urban heritage in three major cities of India.

In his role as the Advisor to CEPT Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), he has been instrumental in forging important collaborations with State and Local Governments, developing training material and administering training programs tailored to different levels of public officials.

Dr. Bapon is a hydrologist by training, and has 17 years working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure and disaster risk reduction. He graduated in civil engineering and have a Master's in Water Engineering and Management. He has a PGD from the United Nations University, Canada and PhD in Water Engineering. He also studied Mathematical Modeling and GIS. Dr. Bapon is a certified Instructor of ICS from United States Forest Service (USFS).

He has hands on working experiences in implementing climate and disaster risk management projects more than 25 countries ( i.e. Barbados, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Cook Islands, China, Fiji, Dominica, Granada, India, Iran, Indonesia, Myanmar, Maldives, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Nepal, Nauru, Niue, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, St Lucia, Thailand, Tanzania, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, USA, Vietnam, Vanuatu.) to support national hydro-meteorological and disaster management agencies.

He has working experience with many international organizations (i.e. UCAR, NOAA, USDA/FS, IFRC, ADPC, WMO, UNDP- GEF, etc) and Universities (UNU, AIT, Kings College, City University NY, East West Center, etc).

In this episode of Massive cross domain data required for understanding Intelligent Urban Systems, Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler talks to Manvita Baradi about urbanization and its problems with increasing complexities, data has proved to be urban nervous system during the pandemic, along with the UHWB programme that has formulated principles in its Xiamen Call for Action in context of Intelligent Urban Systems, globally.

Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler: Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Director of the International Council for Science’s global programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Gatzweiler studied Agricultural Science at Bonn University and International Agricultural Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral research topic at Humboldt University was on the “Nature of Economic Value”. He received stipends from the German academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), and was visiting scholar at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 2003. He teaches courses at the faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of Bonn. Dr. Gatzweiler’s research interests lie at the intersection of ecological, economic and social systems and cover problems of value in complex socio-ecological systems, institutional change in polycentric organization, marginality and technology innovations for productivity growth in rural development, co-production of science and fractal organization theory. Currently Dr. Gatzweiler is Executive Director of the Global Interdisciplinary Programme on “Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach”, sponsored by the International Council of Science (ICSU), the United Nations University (UNU) and the Interacademy Medical Panel (IAMP).

Manvita Baradi is the Founder Director of Urban Management Centre – An organization working towards professionalizing urban management in India and in South Asia. She is the Founder Dean of the Faculty of Management at the CEPT University, designed and set up a 2-year post-graduate program in Urban Management (MUM). She has technical experience in developing and administering programs for Local Governments, capacity building of Local Government Associations, urban and regional planning, citizen participation, municipal performance measurement and international development. She is on the expert panel for Sanitation under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). She is the Head of the Technical Support Unit for the National Urban Livelihood Mission(NULM) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and has been Team Leader Anchor for the HRIDAY mission city of Dwarka, Gujarat. She has also served as an expert on USAID, ADB, EU and World Bank funded programs for local governance, association development in India and in post conflict regions, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Srilanka.

In this episode of Implementing Integrated Systems to Scale up the Urban Resilience, Stephen Passmore in conversation with Loveleen Garg, talks about the importance of having cross-domain integration for making cities infrastructure more resilient. The conversation is led with illustrations of enhanced data use and analytics and the common pathway of data science. The two speakers also talk about implications of data disclosure such as privacy, accuracy and interoperability. In the end, the episode focuses on a global scenario on common data standards which can help to scale up the sustainable infrastructure for cities.

Stephen Passmore, CEO, Resilience Brokers. Based in London, UK, Stephen is a passionate advocate for collective action by fostering links between research, policy, and action on the topics of sustainable and resilient cities and regions. Stephen joined the Resilience Brokers team in 2014 and has been leading the development and deployment of resilience.io an integrated, open-source platform for collaborative, low-carbon, city-region planning, investment and development.

Loveleen Garg has more than 20+ years of exposure in conceptualisation, designing, execution and operations of large scale infrastructure projects (PPP/ Public). Engineer with post graduation in Environmental Planning, has hands on experience in sustainable planning of Green Field smart City, Airports, SEZs, Power Plants, Ports and large urban development projects. EIA/ EC/ Sustainability reporting, Envn Compliance, Green Buildings and implementation of various ISO EMS, EnMS, OHSAS, CAMS etc had been other areas of working. In aviation, he has hands-on experience in implementing environmental and sustainability frameworks. He has lead the sustainability core team involved in implementing the carbon accounting and management system at Mumbai Airport and getting airport carbon accreditation for Level 1 (mapping) in 2012 and upgrading it to Level 2 (reduction) in 2013.

He played a key role in publishing the CSIA Sustainability Report 2012 as per GRI G3.1 guidelines, along with sector supplement with GRI application level check-A, the first of its kind in the Indian aviation sector. He has lead the team to work on the First Sustainability Report as per G4 guidelines by an Airport in the world. He has been involved in process re-engineering and business excellency to achieve sustainability goals. He has experience in developing and auditing various management systems (EMS ISO 14001, EnMS50000, OHSAS18000, CAMS ISO14064), designing and implementing GHG reduction programs, energy saving initiatives and projects registration under CDM protocol. He is also associated with academia and has delivered expert lectures & examined project works in Master’s Program related to environment & sustainability.