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To make this work easier, we have a number platforms dedicated for risk watch, early warning and vulnerability monitoring. Here is a brief overview of such platforms.
Name | How it works? | Added ValueDescription | Notes and added value |
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RiX brings together open-source global and national risk data, with an aim to harmonize the risk and vulnerability information, facilitating a smoother risk analysis and subsequent decision making process. The risk and impact models are built on multiple datasets including global and local weather patterns, climate change effects, local hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities. Data sources include:
| By bringing together a high number of datasets and related analytical models, the RiX reduces the need to scramble data from multiple sources. The current beta/pilot version covers selected countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. More countries are going to be added later in 2022. Full version to be launched in Nov 2022. | ||
| Human-written field reports from the National Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietySocieties inform about new and potential emergencies, associated risks and related action. This complemensts the automatized and robot-captured observations from the other platforms. To be complemented by the more sophisticated Go Risk Module. | ||
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