resilience.io

By 2030 5 billion people will need housing, infrastructure, services, food, healthcare, education, decent jobs and natural resources, with growing threats to society from climate change, water/food insecurity and ecological destruction. There is consensus among UN agencies and national governments to tackle these challenges and sufficient investment capital is available but not released due to lack of city region capacity and investment mechanisms. Computing and communications technology, geospatial data volumes and modelling skills have now improved significantly to enable integrated planning & investment decision making at the city community level to release this capital into the right projects. Our 2030 Roadmap action plan shows how $100 million core funding can create open-source software tools and facilitate release of $3.5 trillion/year of risk informed capital into city regions to enable 5 billion people by 2030 to live safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, fulfilling lives.

Project Stage

Design & Implementation

Last update: October 05, 2023

Overview Contributors

Challenge

integrated tools for collaboration, financing and decision making for resilience

Description

resilience.io has been piloted in Accra Ghana for the WASH sector and described in a video (https://youtu.be/EGyCyxyatAQ). Response at the June 2016 workshop from Robert Ansah Exec Sec to Mayor Accra was (responses video - https://youtu.be/HircAT7UDIc): "resilience.io is one of the most vital tools we could use for the next millennium" "resilience.io has come to stay" "an investment that will yield for generation over generation" "resilience.io tool for me is one of the best tools that we would ever come across" "resilience.io is a great thing for GAMA a great thing for Ghana and I believe that it will be a great thing for Africa" Consensus on the role of science in this approach to disaster risk is here https://www.unisdr.org/files/45270_unisdrscienceandtechnologyroadmap.pdf

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