Complex Cities, Digital Data: Building urban climate resilience through the locally led production of new data

We talk to Edward Anderson, Senior Technology and Resilience Specialist for the World Bank based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Edward works at the nexus of urbanization,climate risks, and the leveraging of frontier data technologies for greater resilience in African economies. A critical challenge for many developing country Governments is the limited availability of spatial data that can inform planning and coordination for climate risk reduction, especially in fast-changing urban areas like Dar es Salaam. Giving examples from his work on the World Bank- and FCDO-funded Tanzania Urban Resilience Programme, Edward explains how to work alongside local government institutions to support the production and use of frontier data technologies to enhance the capacity to identify and respond to climate shocks and disasters. Links Frontier Technology Hub blog post: Medium Full FCDO report: Frontier Data Study - releasing the power of digital data for development

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Complex Cities, Digital Data: Building urban climate resilience through the locally led production of new data is an episode from The Data Frontier by Frontier Technologies Hub.

This episode is 28:37 long.

This episode was published on Jul 5, 2021.

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