<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><img class="gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-8957 gmail-alignright" src="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Policy-Brief-Harnessing-Data-215x300.png" alt="" width="215" height="300" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; float: right; display: inline;">The <a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/fair-data-for-disaster-risk-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">CODATA Task Group on FAIR Data for Disaster Risk Research</a> has produced a Policy Brief as input to the seventh session of the Global Platform (GP2022), organized by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) from 23 to 28 May 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. This policy brief entitled ‘Harnessing data to accelerate the transition from disaster response to recovery’ was published alongside policy briefs from the International Science Council on the same occasion <a href="https://council.science/gp2022-diaster-risk-reduction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://council.science/gp2022-diaster-risk-reduction/</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Harnessing data to accelerate the transition from disaster response to recovery</b><br style="box-sizing:border-box">A number of challenges are usually faced following a disaster, including ineffective coordination between parties at both local and international levels, limited resources and financial constraints. These challenges have numerous complex factors, which lead to long response times and even longer recovery times, causing a great deal of tension, in addition to other cascading problems in the communities affected by the disaster. It is proposed to set up baseline data with integrated data repository for disaster response to accelerate the transition between response and recovery phases. This would enable the world to better understand the health, social, economic, environmental, and other problems that arise when we fail to invest adequately in combating natural hazards. Using different domain data could enhance management to deal with the emergency response process and enable a swift transition from the response to the recovery phase.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Access the policy brief at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6566685" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6566685</a> or <a href="https://council.science/gp2022-diaster-risk-reduction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://council.science/gp2022-diaster-risk-reduction/</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Thanks,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">Asha</p><div><br></div>--<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">___________________________<br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01233-w" target="_blank"><b>Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable</b></a><b> - </b><a href="https://codata.org/stop-squandering-data-make-units-of-measurement-machine-readable-codata-drum-tg-comment-article-in-nature/" target="_blank">CODATA DRUM TG comment article in Nature</a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>The Units Summit @ SciDataCon 2022: </b><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/drum/units-summit-recap-meeting/" target="_blank">SciDataCon Sessions and a Units Summit Recap Meeting, 20-22 June</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>International Data Week 2022:</b> <a href="https://codata.org/onsite-registration-for-international-data-week-2022-is-now-open-2/" target="_blank">Early Bird Onsite and Virtual Registration Still Open!</a></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>CODATA Connect Workshop on Introduction to Spark with R and Lazy evaluation:</b> <a href="https://codata.org/workshop-on-introduction-to-spark-with-r-and-lazy-evaluation-2/" target="_blank">Register Now!</a><br><br><div><a href="https://codata.org/april-2022-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank">April 2022 publications</a> in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a></div></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div><b>Stay in touch with CODATA:</b></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Stay up to date with CODATA activities: <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">join the CODATA International News list</a></div><div><br></div><div>Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?  <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Follow us on social media! </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CODATANews" target="_blank">Twitter</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/codata.org/" target="_blank">Facebook</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hodson-b3711a11/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/codatainternational/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>  <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>