HowWeSurvive- AI Disaster Recovery Map
Leveraging AI to build a world map of people’ s experiences of disaster recovery
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Pilot Project
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Challenge
After a disaster, such as a flood or fire, too often people’ s voices about their priorities get drowned out by top-down organisations, leaving people frustrated and resources wasted by the wrong decisions being made. This is a global phenomenon and, given the increase in climate-fuelled disasters across the world, disaster recovery practices need to be reset to better support affected communities.
Solution
HowWeSurvive is, quite literally, putting people’ s( often ignored) experiences of disaster recovery on the map. Providing quickly accessible, simple information is intended to leverage better listening by responding agencies to improve their own practices. This is a bold effort to change established practices, and HowWeSurvive can help because it has long-term, independent funding.
Target customers / end-users
• state and federal disaster response and recovery organisations
• local and national nongovernment organisations, emergency services and community organisations
• researchers and academic partners.
Progress
• long-term, independent funding in place
• partnerships with MapAI, University of Canterbury, SEEDS India.
Proof-of-concept
TRL 3
Multidisciplinary team
Housing & Connected Communities
When it comes to disaster recovery practices, HowWeSurvive advocates for the priorities of affected people. Beginning in Australia, it is building a world map of people’ s experiences of disaster recovery from publicly available sources. In September, working with MapAI, it launched AI that allows for rapid interrogation of people’ s stories.