Global Exposure Database For Global Earthquake Model (Ged4gem)

The Global Urban Observatory coordinates all activities pertaining to the production of reliable and up-to date urban indicators at urban, national and regional levels, including slum settlements, that address the challenges of rapid urbanization and human settlements issues in the world. The section assists the Agency in the effort to become by 2013 a premier reference center for data collection, analysis, monitoring and reporting on sustainable urbanization with special focus on monitoring and evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda_

 

The Global exposure database framework is fully dependent on reliable and up-to date data to incorporate it with the Geo-spatial data platform to support the Global Earthquake Modeling. Global Urban observatory is one of the reference points for Urban and slum data; GUO was therefore contacted by the GEM foundation to join the GED consortium and partnering in development of GED for GEM. On the other hand, GUO was also highly recommended by JRC-EC (Italy), CEISEN (Columbia University) and UNIPAV (University of Pavia, Italy) to GEM foundation for urban statistics and urban indicator programme.

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