The 2024 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit, themed "Embracing a people-centered and AI-for-good digital future-Building a Community with a shared future in Cyberspace", was opened in Wuzhen, On November 20, 2024. During the summit, the "2024 Collection of practice cases on Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace" was released. The “Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service” project, supported by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO (IKCEST), was selected as a case of Internet infrastructure construction. As a key event of WIC, the Publishing and Exhibition of Practice Cases for Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future" has been held for four consecutive years, gradually establishing itself as a significant platform for promoting international exchanges and cooperation in cyberspace.
The Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System is led by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS), and is jointly implemented by multiple institutions including the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, National Science Library, CAS, and Wuhan University. Prof. Wang Juanle from IGSNRR, CAS, serves as the project leader for this initiative.
Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System (IKCEST-DRR) began construction in 2016 and was launched online to provide services in 2017. By the end of 2023, the platform has accumulated over 4.6 million data entries. The platform facilitates the knowledge discovery of interrelated disaster resources across various types, including data, literature, courseware, institutions, events, maps, experts, reports, and popular science materials. It hosts an extensive repository of disaster risk reduction knowledge resources, featuring 15 specialized databases. These encompass global disaster metadata, earthquakes, droughts, floods, freezing disasters, heatwaves, fires, ecological disasters, urban disasters, disaster information network mining, disaster-prone areas and regional disasters along the Belt and Road, the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor disaster theme, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor disaster theme, and the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor disaster theme. Aligned with the UNESCO’s global disaster risk reduction network, the platform provides long term knowledge services in technology, data, and education for global disaster risk reduction.
Following the principles of open Science, IKCEST-DRR has addressed the challenge of multimodal disaster big data knowledge discovery, significantly enhancing capabilities in big data disaster analysis and knowledge extraction. Designed to meet the needs of users for multi-type DRR knowledge services, the platform offers four distinct online knowledge service application modes: information aggregation, map expression, knowledge discovery, and model application. The platform has established the first-ever Global Disaster Metadata Directory (GDMD), enabling unified display, search, access, mining, and analysis of disaster data. It has currently published over 1,400 global disaster data catalogs. Additionally, the platform has developed quick service channels for disaster knowledge discovery, emergency relief, and educational outreach, constructed a specialized application for the Belt and Road Economic Corridor, and established the Digital CPEC sub-platform from a fully digital perspective, which facilitates data sharing across various domains such as basic geography, land cover, natural resources, ecological environment, and natural disasters. This system has played a crucial role in supporting emergency disaster reduction efforts during the 2022 Pakistan's major flood disaster.
IKCEST-DRR platform serves 184 countries and regions worldwide. The platform has received a total of 2.248 million visits and attracted 902,000 users (67.1%from international users). It has become a UNESCO global demonstration platform for open science in DRR. IKCEST-DRR has organized 9 international training workshops on DRR knowledge service along the Belt and Road, training over 1,600 young talents in DRR from more than 40 countries and regions along the Belt and Road region. It has provided emergency disaster data-sharing services for international crises, such as floods in Pakistan, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and hurricanes in Libya. The platform has received multiple endorsements from the UNESCO Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, the China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, integrated Research on Disaster Risk, the Institute for Sustainable Development of the National University of Mongolia, and Chinese enterprises involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. These achievements have delivered substantial social benefits and international impacts.
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