Category: 2019

User-Centered Design for Disaster Risk Financing and Risk Communication

At a high level, our goal for the week is to learn about, and practice, design research for the purposes of communicating complex risk information to different audiences. We will be using risk finance and insurance problem space, and the website for the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF)(to be launched soon) in particular…
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Projects in Week 3

In week 3, there were 6 main working groups and projects, which are Machine learning, Nature-based solutions, Risk communications, Disaster risk financing, Sensors – field trip and Vulnerability – Paper boats . Participants have been involved in various workshops and working hard on a variety of exciting projects through the week. These include designing serious…
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Machine learning

Many co-risk participants expressed an interest in the machine learning session, so the session was split over the final two weeks of the conference, and a number of sub-projects were proposed. The broad range of knowledge and expertise at the conference ensured that everyone was able to contribute and learn something new from the other…
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Week 2

In week 2, there were 13 working groups and projects, which are 1.Flood-sensor design working group 2.Vulnerability mapping 3.Housing study with FOPDEV 4.OSM Community Mapping 5.Draining mapping of Nong Hoi Community 6.Drone and street-level imagery technology 7.Field Lab of the Future 8.Oral Histories 9.Mapping Information Ecosystems 10.Website and Social Media 11.Disaster Risk Financing 12.Change Mai…
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Documentation

Data and Documentation Stay tuned for more data contribution from field lab participants. Geonode Geonode is an open source platform for sharing geospatial data and maps that have been used in UR Field Lab. Literature lists This is a collection of extant literatures that have been used at the Field Lab. They are compiled on Mendeley. Fact sheets…
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About Field Lab

The Chiang Mai Field Lab follows the participant-driven format of an “Open Event” or unconference. Open Events are designed to allow maximum flexibility attendees to develop projects, collaborate with other attendees, or experiment with new ideas. Each week has several guiding themes but attendees are encouraged to bring their own projects to work on and/or…
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Themes

Each week has several guiding themes. Attendees, however, are also encouraged  to propose new themes, bring their own projects or, support the work of other participants. Mapping This theme emcompasses mulitple aspects of mapping in the context of flood risk management and communication. Projects under this theme include field mapping, mapathons on OpenStreetMap, analogue participatory mapping…
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Press

Latest Field Lab news Living with Water in Chiang Mai  Giuseppe Molinario, Sneha Malani, Sue Lim, Pamela Cajilig and Wahaj Habib wrote the blog post  “Living with Water in Chiang Mai”. The post was submitted as an entry to the #VizRisk challenge. University of the Philippines Resilience Institute Le Kim Nguyen and April Dawn Tegelan from the University of…
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The People

Adityo Dwijananto Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Akhmad Kunio Fadlullah Pratopo Bandung Institute of Technology Al Lim Yale-NUS College Alex Curran Deltares / TU Delft Alina BIll-Weilandt Foundation Mercator & WBG – Distaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program Alok Bhardwaj Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University Amy Willox Resurgence Urban Resilience Trust Anurak Tanyapalit April Dawn Tegelan…
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