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From drones to social media, big data helps confront more complex disasters in Asia

South East Asia floods

Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Technological innovations – from unique digital identities for drought-hit farmers to use of data from drones and social media – can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday. Rising global temperatures have increased the frequency and […]