Opening Ceremony

Abstract:

In the video, Professor Wang introduce the main topic of The Second International Workshop for Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service and several delegates give the corresponding speech.The background of the meeting is that frequent disasters have been a serious threat to human life and social development. Disaster prevention, disaster reduction and disaster relief are eternal subjects for human survival and development. In light of the global need for disaster prevention and mitigation and driven by UNESCO’s mission to reduce disaster risk, International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO (IKCEST) would host the Second International Workshop for Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service, inviting domestic and international experts in disaster risk reduction related fields, to discuss the issues about but not limited to metadata standard and best practice, AI and Big data application, regional and national experiments for DRR.