As a part of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction observation, BPS has arranged a webinar on “Role of Geospatial Data analysis and visualization for Disaster Risk Management”.
Mr. Ahasanul Hoque, Knowledge Management Specialist at UNDP & Former National Consultant on GIS and Data Management at World Bank was the speaker and Anwar Jahid, Director (Environmental Awareness), BPS was the moderator.
At the beginning, welcome address was given by Dr. Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, President, Bangladesh Poribeshbid Society, he said that the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was started in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly for a day to promote a global culture of risk awareness and disaster reduction.
It is observed every year 13 October; the day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reining in the risks that they face. After that the speaker presented his presentation about the Geospatial Data analysis and visualization and their uses in disaster management field in developed and developing countries, and how map and big data support overall country planning, risk identification and risk mitigation. He also discussed about current world scenario and opportunity for environmental professional. More than 84 participants from ES backgrounds and professional joined this program.
With great pleasure, I welcome you all to Bangladesh Poribeshbid Society- a national level platform for all environmental graduates in Bangladesh. We wish to be connected with environmental graduates and put collective efforts to progress environmental education and professional development of the graduates. From the beginning of the Society, we have already started various activities for supporting our members through providing information on jobs and scholarship opportunities, creating awareness through seminars and publications, and connecting graduates and current students through networking programs. We will explore every opportunity for our members and establish our professional positions in all sectors in Bangladesh. Also, we will take collaborative actions with other environmental organizations for enhancing environmental awareness and environmental protection in Bangladesh. I expect your warm and heartiest cooperation for fulfilling our mission and vision of the Society.
Environment is now one of the words that is used by all types of communities including scientist, businessman, public and private sectors in around the world. It becomes a central issue not only for Bangladesh context as well as in the international debate in the early part of twenty first century. Since 1996, different public and private universities of Bangladesh offer courses for the Environmental Science related Department. But the Environment Graduates are facing lot of challenges to develop their professional careers in this sector due to less professional skills and communications. For these challenges environment graduates felt to establish their own organization to develop academic excellence and professional careers in national and international level. By this visionary thought, Bangladesh Poribeshbid Society established in 2020. Now it is a national platform for all environment graduates of Bangladesh. Beside the professional and educational development, the society always encourage all types of peoples to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature, and to ensure that natural resources are used in an equitable and ecologically sustainable manner. The society always ready to provide any types of support to government and non-government organizations for improving and implementing environment policies, laws and regulations. We always welcome to all environment graduates of Bangladesh in our dream platform.