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Sustainable community-led solutions shaping disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Following Hurricane Maria, CDP directed resources to local Puerto Rican nonprofits to ensure recovery efforts were informed by lived experience and local expertise. Our long-term investment in Houston nonprofits strengthened their ability to lead localized disaster recovery efforts from Hurricane Harvey through ongoing severe weather events.

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). The population at large would probably not trust the federal government to run a national level information network for reuniting families and notifications for finding people. Information management on a large scale.

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Technology's Impact on Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. Google's Hurricane Sandy map currently shows areas with power outages.

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FloodMapp wants to predict where water goes before it washes away your home

TechCrunch

government estimates that floods in recent decades (exclusive of hurricanes and tropical storms) have caused an estimated $160 billion in damage and killed hundreds of people. Image Credits: FloodMapp. Image Credits: FloodMapp. We have really sort of broken the speed barrier.”

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Apps for Disaster Planning

Tech Soup

To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more. Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane. Government Agency Apps.

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Sofar nets a $39M round B to grow its ocean-monitoring autonomous buoy network

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Sofar. “What we’re seeing now, especially in light of COP26, is that climate change discussions are finally taking center stage as governments across the globe adjust and plan ahead for more intense hurricanes and storms, rising sea levels and threatened ecosystems like coral reefs,” Janssen explained.

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AI for Climate Change and Weather Risk

DataRobot

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck the U.S. DataRobot combines these datasets and data types into one training dataset used to build models for predicting whether a building will be damaged in the hurricane. Example Images of Properties with Damage. See How DataRobot Delivers on the Promise of AI in Government. Learn more.

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