On October 16th, an Online Peer Review system was launched for the global community to participate in the review of the Requests for Proposals (RfPs) that GEM develops. The review has been prolonged with a week; so from 16 October til 23 November five Risk RfPs are under reviewand anyone involved in seismic risk is invited to submit comments.
The brainstorm held 16 September at the OECD headquarters on the Social-Economic Impact (SEI) module of the global earthquake model brought together a diverse group of experts: economists, practioners, representatives of private companies and of international programmes / projects of the OECD and Worldbank. Subject of the brainstorm: the overall objectives of the SEI-module.
A user-need assessment has been created to find out in an early stage what possible end-users of GEM software and tools are in need of. Click on the banner in the upper-right corner of the website to enter. It is a brief online survey meant for all kinds of stakeholders that deal with earthquake risk and we like to encourage everyone to participate.
Almost the entire GEM1 team in Pavia the 8-9 September to see how far one has come in half a year and what needs to be done next. At least 20 individuals are spending part or even all of their time on making sure that GEM is off on a good start; they will provide core capabilities for the present and key knowledge for future development of the full GEM computing environment and product set.
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Forum Activity
Now that the Hazard Global Components have started, the GEM IT team is busy following up on the IT review and in various regions GEM Programmes are becoming a reality.. more and more questions are arising on best practices, methods and ideas. The GEM Forum serves to discuss about all such issues and various people have started to post questions.. currently on the forum:
