Can geospatial data help communities prepare for natural disasters? Here are the lessons from Türkiye and Syria.
How open data and mapping can help disaster response organizations go from reactivity to preparedness.
Why It Matters
Location-based, openly available data – which is crowdsourced across a community, or from around the world – can help those working in aid contexts ascertain where the need for resources is most urgent following a disaster. However, constant and preemptive data collection activities – both before and after a disaster – could help aid workers and government agencies proactively plan for such disasters.
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