Saving lives and losses through Disaster Tech crowdsourcing
Community investment arm of Prudential in Asia and Singapore-based funders' network launch drive to limit harm from natural disasters
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Vivien Ang
Singapore
PRUDENCE Foundation, the community investment arm of Prudential in Asia, and AVPN, a Singapore-based funders' network, on Wednesday announced the launch of the Disaster Tech Innovation Programme.
According to the United Nations' Global Humanitarian Overview 2019 report, in the period between 2014 and 2017, 870 million people per year from 160 countries and territories either lost their lives, their livelihoods or were displaced from their homes because of disasters caused by natural hazards.
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