Mobile – NERC Constructing a Digital Environment

Using mobile phone technologies for Disaster Risk Management – some reflections from the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) programme

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 by admin

Authors: Emma Bee (British Geological Survey), Mirianna Budimir (Practical Action UK) and Jonathan Paul (Royal Holloway University). Approximately 93% of the global population has access to a mobile broadband network 1. Mobile phone ownership has also increased rapidly, with global smartphone connections doubling in just five years and rising sixfold in South Asia 2. Whilst […]

COVID-19 Hackathons – Winners announced for third and fourth events

Posted on August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 by Stephen Hallett

We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the final two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Ecosystem Services and Visualising Risk. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the winners to date are […]