Introduction: A knowledge application for comprehensive display and inquiry of Czech Technical University in Prague is built to comprehensively display four internationally recognized world university rankings, such as QS, THE, US News and ARWU rankings.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: Dec. 2021

Provided by: Zhang Qianglong

Introduction: Confucianist and Daoist are the mainstream of Chinese culture. Confucianist shapes the social personality of the Chinese people. Daoist achieves the natural personality of the Chinese people. The core of "Dao" and "Nature" and "Inaction" are the basic categories, which have far-reaching influence on people's affairs and political philosophy. This course is divided into three major parts: the origin and mission of Daoist, the life of Laozi and the life of Zhuang Zi.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: Nov. 2021

Provided by: Liu Jun

Introduction: IKCEST Solutions to SDGs is established to support the realization of UNESCO sustainable development goals by providing knowledge services on SDG.2 Zero Hunger, SDG.3 Good Health and Well-being, SDG.4 Quality Education, SDG.11 Sustainable City and SDG.15 Life on Land for S&T personnels in the developing countries. To provide better services, the application has been upgraded in terms of functions and contents. The layout of the home page has been improved by creating access to SDG.3 Good Health and Well-being, SDG.4 Quality Education and SDG.11 Sustainable City. The unified search is also newly added to support for your searching among the related patents, literatures and news. As for contents of SDG.2, 4, 11 and 15, they are respectively extended to provide experience in alleviating poverty for the developing countries; provide English "Academic Conference Video" and the exclusive education resources and update information on China's top universities; provide reports, initiatives and videos against COVID-19 for policy makers and city management; provide forest, land and soil resources related to engineering science and technology. Moreover, the four goals have been categorized in the top section under each page, such as section 2.3 and 2.4 of SDG.2, which is more convenient for you to search and read. Please go ahead and search for what you want.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Jul. 2021

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: The AI Ethics focuses on the significance of it in the development of AI technology, as well as offers science popularization and frontier trends to the amateurs, staff and scientific research experts in AI technology. It mainly reveals to the users the five major principles of AI Ethics at present: transparency, justice & fairness, non-maleficence, responsibility and privacy. In the home page, we have added the "Recommendation" section in the form of timeline, which shows the process of preparing the first global standard-setting instrument on AI ethics for your reference. We also have upgraded the section of "Different Voices" where you can find views on AI ethics from celebrities, countries and companies. In addition, the "Recommendation" page is newly created to showcase the "Background", "Goal", "Timline", "Principles" and "Comments" of the first global standard-setting instrument on AI ethics. Moreover, views from experts as well as countries and companies are upgraded to two independent pages "Experts" and "Opinions", which is more convient for your reference. For the "AI Ethical Principles" page, the five principles are sequenced by their popularization among users, and the "Project" is also categorized by "Sentiment" and "Tags". In the "Discussion" page, sections of "Waiting for you to answer" and "Waiting for you to wait" are added. Welcome to participate in!

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Jul. 2021

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: The World Heritage Protection focuses on the technology of restoring and protecting the world heritages, further analyses the natural and human causes of the damages to them, and offers corresponding S&T literature and documents to the S&R personnel engaged in the field and the general public interested in it. We have greatly improved to provide you with more professional knowledge service in the field of world heritage protection. Firstly, the home page is equipped with more extensive resources, including "Conservation Technology" and "Events", along with a more clear layout. Besides, we newly create a section on the top left for the typical and excellent projects for professional personnels. In the "List" page, the resources related to heritage protection and technology are categorized by key words and labelling so you can access the data you needed more quickly. As for the "Map" page, it is visualized and the national boundaries of it are weakened by categorizing as the "Mixed Site", "Nature Site" and "Cultural Site". The search range is also extended, including the "Year", "Continent", "Disaster Coverage", and among other aspects. Therefore, your experience in accessing the application will greatly enhanced.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Jul. 2021

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: The Technology Trending closely follows the development trends of engineering science and technology focused by UNESCO and IKCEST while sharing the latest S&T information. In order to improve the trending analysis in engineering science and technology, we have upgraded the application as follows. In the home page of "Science & Technology Trend", more key S&T "Related Projects" are added, providing you with extensive resources to select from. Besides, you are available to download the "Export Reports". For the section of "UNESCO Focus", the "Radar", "Trend", "News", among other aspects, related to the "Hot Spot" are shown by clicking the item under it, which can make you obtain the related resources at a glance. Moreover, the "Hot Spot" is allowed to be downloaded, forwarded, collected and commented on. Please feel free to communicate with us.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Jul. 2021

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: This data set selects 200km buffer areas along both sides of the China-Mongolia Railway (Mongolia section) as the study area, and introduces the P-BSHADE method, based on the normalized differential vegetation index NDVI and a small amount of ground-measured sample data, to simulate evenly distributed samples Conduct an interpolation experiment.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Nov. 2020

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: Using web crawlers and Weibo API, original Weibo messages were collected with "drought" as the keyword. The following information was extracted: user ID, time-stamp (i.e., the time when the message was posted), text (i.e., the text message posted by a user), and location information. The data format is Excel. The spatial scope is China. The temporal range is from January 1, 2019 to February 11,2021. There are 165,707 Weibo texts.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2020

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: The management of wildfire disasters is very important, mainly because wildfires bring many damages, and they affect people's lives a lot, destroy cities and towns. This report mainly introduces progress and cases of international cooperation in wildfire disaster management. Now there are 14 regional wildfire prevention networks and 6 regional firefighting resource centers. The main purpose is to disseminate best practices, carry out standardized training and establish common standards in the world.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Jan. 2020

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: The CityIQ column aims at developing a data model to provide evaluation services for global cities, undertaking sustainable development research tasks, relating to themes of urban planing, transportation, environment, safety and encouraging cities to provide data and best practices to support database construction and to improve the worldwide competences of city database and city evaluation system.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Dec. 2021

Provided by: CAO Buyan

Introduction: Professor SUN Shiwen discusses the main transformation from urban and rural planning to land and space planning from the perspective of planning system, object, content and management and control mode; the orientation of urban and rural planning discipline should be multi-disciplinary of land and space planning. He also suggests we should improve the overall framework of planning from the three levels of ontology, epistemology and methodology, establish a complete logic chain of strategy strategy policy measures, enhance the thinking ability of transformation, improvement and problem-solving.  

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Dec. 2021

Provided by: LI Xiang

Introduction: Professor Dieter Frick is from TU Berlin, former director of the institute of urban and regional planning at TU Berlin. In this lesson, the author defined the Spatial Synergy by four parts: spatial synergy, supportiveness, the importance of public space, and how to achieve spatial synergy.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Dec. 2021

Provided by: LI Xiang