Open Data to plan Flood management in Assam
summary
Project uses qgis and open street maps plus web scraping with selenium and Python to merge two open datasets (FIMS losses & Assam tender data) with satellite, rainfall and demographic layers into an intelligent data solution for disaster risk reduction (idsd). Work spans >2 years, five years of historical data, tags tenders to Revenue Circle level, and reports reduced ad‑hoc first‑come allocations of hundreds of crores and helped Assam produce a green budget.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Flood management in Assam
- 1:09Speaker background
- 4:19Floods beyond disasters
- 5:24Fund allocation challenges
- 7:30Open data sources
- 9:36Intelligent data solution
- 10:37Scaling framework
- 11:20Fund allocation impact
- 12:46Spending quality tracking
- 13:07Green budgeting contribution
- 13:50Open source impact
- 14:34Next steps
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