The RASOR Community of Practice Inaugural Meeting was held on 17 May, 2016 in Mestre, Italy, bringing together about 50 people from user organizations and the RASOR partnership. The RASOR Community of Practice meeting was both the “Final Conference” showcasing the results of the RASOR FP7 project and the inaugural face-to-face meeting of a dynamic group of users and practitioners who will maintain
the RASOR platform over the coming months and years, develop it and serve as a resource basin for RASOR-based analysis in the coming years.
The meeting was extremely successful, with presentations form all case study areas, but also with presentations from “new users”, who were offered a chance to present on new uses outside the FP7 project, building on the results of the project. These new users are typical of users who can be the nucleus of the RASOR Phase 2. Some examples of new users were UNOSAT and the EC’s Joint Research Centre, who both prepared cases studies for the meeting. The Rapid Analysis and Spatialisation Of
Risk (RASOR) project has come to an end, after 30 months of improving, during the Understanding Risk event organized by World Bank in Venice on 16-20 May. But, as RASOR Coordinator Roberto Rudari said, «this is not the end, but the true beginning of what we built in the last two years». RASOR is an open platform, with open data and models, useful to enable communities to perform multirisk analysis. For 30
months RASOR has been implemented by an international team that included also specialists from five Countries where case studies have been conducted.
«RASOR has been very useful and important for us», said David Telcy, from Haitian Centre National de l’Information Géo-Spatiale. «The platform allowed us to make a mock-up of different risks in Haiti, from cyclone to flood, from earthquake to tsunami. Haiti is particularly exposed to natural risk and RASOR is a tool that allows very deepened analysis. The most interesting thing in RASOR is that it helps to identify the vulnerability and the impact of a certain risk in a determined area.
This is fundamental to come to the best decision to safeguard that particular area».
«Thanks to RASOR Project we now can better identify the risk and come to better decisions», said Sinta Kaniawati, General Manager from Unilever Indonesia Foundation and member of the National Platform for DRR in Indonesia. «Our wish is that RASOR Project could help stakeholders in all the World, not only the National Governments, but also local agencies up to community level. We hope RASOR will be uninterruptedly built so that it can be a powerful tool to enable many of us to come to better
solutions to build a safer world».

ACROTEC
AG
agriconsulting spa
AIR Worldwide
AIRBUS
Airbus Defence and Space
ALTAMIRA
American University of Beirut
ARPA
ARPAL
ASNACODI
Bandung Institute of Technology
BMPB
BNPB
BPBD Jakarta
BRGM
CDEMA
CEA LIST
CIMA
CIMH
CIVIL PROTECTION GREECE
Climate Decision
CNES
CNIGS
CRASTE-LF
Deltares
Department of Science and Technology – Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (Project NOAH)
Department of Surveys (Malawi)
DLR
DLT
DMI
DMInnovation
DPC
Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization
ESA
EUCENTER
GEM
geodesy
Geoscience Australia – dminnovation
GEOSYSTEMS HELLAS
GeoVille
GNS Science
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
iMMAP
independent
INGV
ISMB
Italian Red Cross
ITB
ITHACA
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
JRC
LK-EE
MAP ACTION
National Observatory of Athens
NCSR DEMOKRITOS
New Light Technologies
NOA
ODPEM
PUSAIR
Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Service
RMS
RWS
sap ns2
SERTIT
SIRADEL
UN ECLAC
Uni kiel
UNILEVER
Union des Amis Socio Culturels d’Action en Developpement (UNASCAD)
Unipolsai
UNITAR
UNITAR-UNOSAT
Universitas Gadjah Mada
University of Athens, Greece
University of Bristol
UNOSAT
WB
World Bank
Xarokopeio University