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.4 Quality Education, SDG.6 Clena Water and Sanitation, SDG.9 Innovation and Infrastructure, SDG.11 Sustainable City, SDG.13 Climate Action and SDG.15 Life on Land for S&T personnels in the developing countries. To provide better services, the application has been upgraded in four aspects. The first one is that a database is established, allowing users to select resources. The second one is that SDG.6 Clean Water and Sanitation is established, including relevant technical literatures, policy documents and news. Next is that SDG.9 Innovation and Infrastructure is built, providing resources of engineering projects on the introduction, key breakthroughs, academic documents and core technology. The last one is that SDG.13 Climate Action is established, including relevant educational videos, slides and datasets. Please go ahead and search for what you want.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Oct. 2022

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. For the “Home” page, it is adapted to the mobile end to meet demands of users and allows framework translation in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic. We also have established the column of “The latest news” to follow the dynamics on AI ethics. In addition, the “Recommendation” page is upgraded, including literatures, videos, news and experts. For the “Opinion” page, reports of AI ethics on African and developing countries are added. Also, the “AI Ethical Principles” page is upgraded. In the “Discussion” page, columns of “Waiting for you to answer” and “Waiting for you to vote” are upgraded. Welcome to participate in!

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Oct. 2022

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: The knowledge application of Women Scientists is developed to respond to the UNESCO’s initiative and focuses on gender equality in the scientific academic circle by integrating relevant data and resources. It is also an online museum storing data and resources about women engineers. For the “Home” page, the pages of “News”, “Photos” and “Videos” as well as visual statistics and analysis are established. In addition, the “News” page is built, including the news released by authorative media. Also, we have established the “Video” page, providing videos and intervies from the authorative media, conferences, academic speeches and charity events. As for the newly-added Photo page, we have collected their manuscripts, photographs and other peripherals. Please go ahead and search for what you want.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Oct. 2022

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: On August 10, 2022, the 4th IKCEST “Belt and Road” International Big Data Competition and the 8th Baidu & Xi’an Jiaotong University Big Data Competition (International Big Data Competition) was officially launched. Tian Qi, Director of the Department of the International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Executive Deputy Director of IKCEST, pointed out that the competition is of great importance to improve the quality of machine translation for key languages along The Belt and Road. He also hopes that more and more young talents can provide new impetus for international communication.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Sept. 2022

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: This dataset is the spatial distribution map of floods in Pakistan in 2022. Google Earth engine is used to process sentinel1 data and threshold method is used to extract water body. The data format is tiff, and the spatial resolution is 30m.This dataset is the spatial distribution map of floods in Pakistan in 2022. Google Earth engine is used to process sentinel1 data and threshold method is used to extract water body. The data format is tiff, and the spatial resolution is 30m.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Sept. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: This dataset is the distribution data of high-temperature heat waves in South Asia and the South Central Peninsula from 2000 to 2020, which mainly records the types of high-temperature heat wave risk assessment, as well as the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics, with a total of 91 raster data.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Sept. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: Through the remote sensing data and filed survey to identify the high risk settlements by assessing the landslide risk of buildings, and combine with the current situation and expected development of local settlements, put forward the scientific planning of settlement space form, internal space, external space, disaster mutual assistance and full cycle disaster management under the guidance of human settlements theory, so as to help improve the aggregation along the road.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: May 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: This course mainly introduced the strategic importance of international cooperation in combating disaster risk reduction and strategies for specific strengthening international collaboration. It included specific issues of "Belt and Road", existing cooperation mechanisms, cooperation among governments, cooperation among universities and research institutions, and practical cases.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: May 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: Landslide incidences have been increasing worldwide: Between 2004 and 2016, around 56,000 people were killed in nearly 5,000 distinct events. The time lag between the occurrence and reporting of landslides—sometimes ranging from days to weeks—can affect emergency preparedness and disaster response.To address this gap, a landslide reporting tool using artificial intelligence (AI) that monitors social media in near-real time has been developed by scientists at the British Geological Survey, European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, and Qatar Computing Research Institute. Their results were published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Sept. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: In Deyang, like other places in the southwest, the country's worst heat wave in over 60 years has plagued locals, disrupting power supplies and resulting in a severe drought that has wreaked havoc on agriculture. Parts of the hydropower dependent Sichuan province have announced rolling electricity cuts and rationed water supply, while wilting leaves, dried river beds, and parched crops have become a common sight in the usually water-rich province.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Aug. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: At least 33 million people have been affected by deadly flooding in Pakistan, the country's climate change minister said on Thursday. Since mid-June, 937 people have died from severe rain and flooding across the South Asian country, according to the country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Sherry Rehman, the minister for climate change, called the floods “unprecedented” and “the worst humanitarian disaster of this decade.”

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Aug. 2022

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: Oct. 2022

Provided by: CAO Buyang

Introduction: Prof. Otthein Herzog, academician of German Academy of engineering and member of German Computer Association. Since 2015, he has been invited to serve as visiting professor of Tongji University Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Intelligent Planning Collaborative Innovation Center. In 2019, he was rated as "the top ten most influential figures in the history of artificial intelligence in Germany" by the Federal Ministry of education and research. At present, he is also a member of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategy Advisory Expert Committee and the UNESCO International Engineering Science and Technology Knowledge Center Advisory Committee.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Sept. 2022

Provided by: LI Xiang

Introduction: Professor Buyang Cao is a professor and Ph.D student supervisor at College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. Professor Cao possesses multi-year experiences in problem analysis, algorithm design/development, software engineering project management, etc. He was awarded by INFORMS (Institute for Operations and Management Science) due to excellence in applying optimization techniques for solving complicated decision support problems from the real world. Numerous research papers by professor Cao appeared in some top-tier international journals. Currently, his research is focusing on applying big data, data analytical, and algorithm development technologies to the problems from Smart City and Logistics arenas.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2022

Provided by: LI Xiang

Introduction: The 19th China Urban Planning Discipline Development Forum will be held online on October 29, 2022. The conference is hosted by Jin Jingchang/Dong Jianhong Urban Planning Education Fund, Editorial Department of Urban Planning Forum, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2022

Provided by: WANG Wei

Introduction: A knowledge application for comprehensive display and inquiry of Yasouj University in Iran 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: Oct. 2022

Provided by: Zhang Qianglong

Introduction: Hat is an Arduino and why should you care? In this video, I attempt to answer that question, and more. If you're an absolute beginner to Arduino, or are just curious about the magical device everyone is raving about, you should watch this. Seriously. Watch it.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2022

Provided by: Liu Jun

Introduction: The 122nd IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development was held from Sept. 22nd to Oct. 8th, 2022. It was co-hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of UNESCO and Xi’an Jiaotong University, and was organized by IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. 98 trainees from 10 countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan and Yemen participated in this training programme. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this training programme was held online.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2022

Provided by: Ya Gao