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Disaster Risk Reduction Stakeholder Engagement to support G20 Open Innovation for Development

South African Environmental Observation NetworkRef: https://www.saeon.ac.za/2025/07/11/disaster-risk-reduction-stakeholder-engagement-to-support-g20-open-innovation-for-development/?utm_source=rss&

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What this means

This document is a webpage-style news/announcement from the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) describing a G20 virtual stakeholder engagement workshop held on 17–18 June 2025. It reports that 150 participants and experts from G20 countries, along with invited members and global stakeholders, discussed disaster risk reduction (DRR) inputs for an upcoming DRR hackathon focused on water resilience, forecasting informal urban expansion, and flood risk. The page also notes that workshop outputs are intended to shape the follow-on G20 Hackathon under the G20 RIWG Open Innovation Demonstrator Project, and it references a complementary G20 DRR Landscape Global survey on crisis-management data and data systems.

Facts

Places

KwaZulu-Natal, eThekwini

Reference

https://www.saeon.ac.za/2025/07/11/disaster-risk-reduction-stakeholder-engagement-to-support-g20-open-innovation-for-development/?utm_source=rss&

Key Takeaways

  • Event: G20 virtual stakeholder engagement workshop
  • Dates: 17–18 June 2025
  • Host/organiser: South African G20 Research and Innovation Working Group (RIWG) via DSTI
  • Participants: 150 participants and experts from G20 countries plus invited global stakeholders
  • Facilitators/implementing partners: African Open Science Platform (AOSP) coordinating office at NRF; NRF-SAEON
  • Purpose: input/support for upcoming disaster risk reduction hackathon
  • Hackathon focus: DRR for Water Resilience; forecasting informal urban expansion and flood risk
  • Hackathon eligibility: innovators, policy makers, scientists, developers, entrepreneurs, and data experts from G20 member countries
  • Hackathon outcome: winner receives an award and showcases at the G20 Ministerial meeting in September 2025
  • Workshop outputs: to shape the follow-on G20 Hackathon
  • Complementary activity: G20 DRR Landscape Global survey on data and data systems for crisis management
  • DSTI welcome remarks: Deputy Director General of International Cooperation and Resources, Mr Daan du Toit
  • SAEON/NRF opening: Dr Mary-Jane Bopape (MD: NRF-SAEON) discussed NRF-SAEON study (1980–2023 increase in weather-related disasters; floods/storms most prevalent, especially KwaZulu-Natal; eThekwini municipality most events)
  • Programme director: Dr Tshiamo Motshegwa (Director AOSP)
  • Hackathon introduction: Mr Teboho Seseng (Technology Innovation Agency)
  • South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
  • South African G20 Research and Innovation Working Group (RIWG)
  • Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI)
  • African Open Science Platform (AOSP)
  • National Research Foundation (NRF)
  • NRF National Facility South African Environmental Observation Network (NRF-SAEON)
  • Dr Tshiamo Motshegwa
  • Mr Daan du Toit
  • Dr Mary-Jane Bopape
  • Mr Teboho Seseng
  • Technology Innovation Agency
  • UNDRR
  • UNDRR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030)
  • Early Warning Systems for All (EW4All)
  • UNESCO-CODATA Data Policy in Times of Crisis (DPTC)

Dates

Closing Date

18 June 2025