Code for Resilience partners local technologists with disaster risk management experts to catalyze software and hardware innovations that improve communities' ability to address challenges around natural disasters.

Developers created dozens of apps throughout early 2014; meet the Finalists.

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Global Earthquake Model
OpenQuake

The OpenQuake suite of open-source software comprises the Platform, the Engine, and a great variety of (desktop) T

Anytime!

Anytime! is a cooperative communication platform offering real-time help according to user’s language, nationality and location.

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Featured Problems

Rain induced debris flow risk identification tool
Japan, Japan
Develop an app to identify rain induced debris flow high risk areas using an algorithm developed and used in Japan for land use planning and early warning.
Digitization of housing surveys for disaster relief
Peshawar, Pakistan
Create an Android-based survey of housing damage to help displaced families
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Featured Events

Code for India/ Code for Resilience Bangalore
Bangalor, India
May 10, 2014 - 10:00am to May 11, 2014 - 5:00pm
Readysaster: Hack for Resilience
SaDoce, 12/F Smart Tower, Ayala Avenue, Makati, Manila, Philippines
May 9, 2014 - 8:00pm to May 11, 2014 - 5:00am
Code for Vietnam: Code for Resilience Hanoi [HATCH! / AiTi]
, , Hà Nội, Hà Nội, 10000, Vietnam
May 9, 2014 - 9:00am to May 12, 2014 - 5:00pm

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Building community resilience to natural disasters through open innovation

Submitted by Code For Resilience Team on

Natural disasters affected the lives of over 2 billion people—more than a quarter of the world’s population—in the first decade of this century alone.  Together, hazards like tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts and floods set the global economy back nearly US$ 1 trillion in damage to lives, infrastructure, and livelihoods.

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