gem's mission and vision [sep 2012]

GEM: the mission and vision

Anselm Smolka, Chairman Governing Board, GEM Foundation

What is GEM?

“A collaborative effort devised and launched by OECD’s Global Science Forum, aimed at engaging the global community in the transparent design, development and deployment of uniform open standards and tools for earthquake risk assessment worldwide”

Why GEM?

Why GEM?

The rationale I

Global Seismic Risk:

Earthquake disasters since 2004

The rationale II

‣ advanced seismic hazard and risk assessment tools and resources out of reach for many potential users

‣ similar issues, different approaches

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Public-private partnership

‣ Combining the strengths, knowledge and needs of both sectors‣ Growing: currently 10 companies, 15 public organizations

representing nations or regions, 8 international organizations

Looking at risk holistically

Collaborative Development

‣ Data‣ Tools‣ Best Practice

TESTING & EVALUATION FACILITY

Global Projects: Hazard

Global Earthquake History

Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue

Global Active Fault and Seismic Source Database

Global Ground-Motion Prediction Equations

Global Geodetic Strain Rate Model

Global Projects: Exposure and physical vulnerability

GEM Ontology and TaxonomyGlobal Exposure Database

Global Earthquake Consequences DatabaseGlobal Vulnerability Estimation Methods

Inventory Data Capture Tools

Global Projects: Social Vulnerability and Resilience

ProjectDevelopment of indices and tools for integrated risk assessment

GoalFacilitate the implementation of indicators, indices, and assessment standards for capturing the social vulnerability, disaster resilience, and indirect (economic) loss vulnerability of societies to earthquake impacts.

Regional Collaboration

SHARE, NERA, Syner-G EMME EMCA

Regional workshops

By creating regional programmes and networks scientists in the different countries can provide feedback on global standards and bring in local data and knowledge.

Worldwide collaboration

Since starting in 2009 GEM has become a truly global effort

Tools, software, GIS-platform

Open-source development of software and IT-infrastructure

GEM in a nutshell

‣ State-of the-art‣ Transparent and open ‣ Independent‣ Commmunity owned‣ Global‣ Standardized, but flexible‣ Rigorous testing & validating ‣ Accessible‣ Serving multiple users

Dynamic Risk Assessment Platform

‣ model, analyse, explore, share

‣ different ‘suites’ tailored to our stakeholders

‣ first version 2014

‣ transparency

‣ common data exchange format

‣ models, tools, data

Using the platform

Develop custom output and risk information

Custom hazard, loss and risk maps

Create event-loss tables, get insight into average annual loss and occurrence exceedence probability, obtain spatial distributions of cost-benefit ratio’s

Use GEM risk information

Access and use GEM maps, graphs, indices and other infoOverlay maps to have a better understanding of risk componentsAccess documentation to get insight into the methodologies and approaches

Results and outputs

OpenQuake Engine tested and used in more than 45 countries

Already used for national hazard maps, regional programmes, scientific projects

Results and outputs

Global projects are delivering more and more output as they are progressing. Some examples: - The ISC-GEM global instrumental

catalogue- A taxonomy of buildings worldwide,

plus an online glossary- A report on pre-selection of ground

motion prediction equations [GMPEs] for the globe

- A report on guidelines for data collection for earthquake consequence data

See www.nexus.globalquakemodel.org

Vision

‣ Working together to assess risk: worldwide use of the

OpenQuake Platform and other resources

‣ Extending and enhancing tools and methods

‣ Technology transfer and knowledge exchange

‣ Intensified regional collaboration

‣ New global projects: other and secondary perils, time

dependence/aftershocks, infrastructure

=> Staying there, alive and dynamic

Roadmap

Get involved

‣ JOIN: Become a public or private participant and sustain the effort

‣ SUPPORT: Fund regional activities, (global) projects or technology transfer

‣ EXPLORE: Try GEM tools as they become available and provide feedback

‣ REGION: Share knowledge and data within a regional programme

‣ SCIENCE: Provide feedback on the global best practice

‣ DATA: Collaborate on data to enhance the global datasets for everyone’s use

‣ DEVELOP: Join one of our open-source projects

‣ FOLLOW: Stay up-to-date through our newsletter and website

We value and very much need your participation..

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