2014

This international interdisciplinary CODATA workshop on Risk Information Management, Risk Models, and Applications will enable sharing of best practices as well as giving space for discussing methodological problems in risk modeling from the information systems point of view for all phases of the disaster cycle.

The following areas will be of central interest for the workshop:

The International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) is the leading humanitarian technology event of the year, bringing together the most important humanitarian, human rights, development and media organizations with the world's best technology companies, software developers and academics. As thus one of the few neutral spaces where such important conversations can take place, the annual ICCM conference brings together a wide range of diverse actors for important conversations that lead to concrete new projects and deliverables across a variety of diverse domains.

The symposium will be an important step towards defining requirements, and the further development of an efficient and sustained international space-based . This symposium is intended to bring together the international experts in climate observations, research, analysis and modelling to present and discuss results from their studies, with a particular emphasis on the role of space-based Earth observations in improving our knowledge of the current climate at global and regional scales, and in the assessment of models used for climate projections.

The aim of the event is to take up the theoretical debates in the three fields, this - to relate to each other, and to generate momentum for a politically sensitive, conceptual back-bound geographical research in the North-South context - also based on empirical examples. Invited to participate are researchers, the topics mentioned interested, and advanced students. The program is divided into keynotes (Day 1), lectures with empirical examples (the second day) and workshops (3 days) on the basis of selected key texts for discussion and evaluation of the conceptual conclusions.