The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is calling for abstracts in the frame of its next technical conference “DRI Technical Conference 2022” that will be held in Delhi (India) next 12-13 October 2022 – last day being the International Day for Disaster Reduction 2022.

Besides the conference itself, a Special Issue of the Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure journal (Taylor & Francis Editions) will be done, on the theme “Adaptive Pathways for Resilient Infrastructure”: “The initiative aims to promote multidisciplinary approaches for disaster and climate resilient infrastructure that has traditionally straddled several domains”.

“Biases are commonly considered one of the most detrimental effects of artificial intelligence (AI) use. The EU is therefore committed to reducing their incidence as much as possible. However, the existence of biases pre-dates the creation of AI tools. All human societies are biased – AI only reproduces what we are. Therefore, opposing this technology for this reason would simply hide discrimination and not prevent it. It is up to human supervision to use all available means – which are many – to mitigate its biases. – European Parliament (STOA).

You were numerous to be interested in our previous news item “JRC: New algorithm for risks & disasters management”. Just so you remember, the European Commission’s new & open-source software algorithm developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) can segment social media messages to identify, verify and help manage disaster events -such as floods, fires or earthquakes- in real-time.  

Please see below the latest news on algorithms, and more generally speaking, AI and technology, from the EU, not forgetting a news about our sister project ENGAGE  and its chatbot for first responders and then societal resilience.