The world is increasingly complex with risks and consequences becoming more systemic in nature. Our sector is rapidly evolving as we are exposed to these challenges. 

To help practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in navigating these issues, AIDR, in conjunction with the National Emergency Management Agency, is excited to launch the new Spotlight Series webinars. 

The purpose of this series is to provide a forum for conversations about emerging issues in disaster risk reduction and resilience, and to highlight topics of importance that receive little attention or focus. This series will support practitioners to be informed, build knowledge and skills, and to identify sound evidence to support effective planning and practice.

The webinars will be one hour long with a feature topic and time for discussion and questions at the end. Look out for new webinars as they are developed and added to the events calendar.

1pm-2pm, Wednesday 25 June 2025

This webinar will focus on the rapidly evolving area of disinformation response as it relates to disasters.

Disinformation has rapidly become a defining challenge of this era. Increasingly, disasters are being used as lightning rods for disinformation, with significant implications for immediate response efforts, individual safety, and collective recovery. This webinar will present practical learnings from the 2024 Disinformation in the City Response Playbook, applied to the context of disasters.

Guest Speaker:

Ika Trijsburg
Director Urban Analytics, ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society

Ika Trijsburg draws on diverse sector expertise to address complex challenges to democracy. She leads the Disinformation in the City project across five Australian universities and was the lead author of the world first Disinformation in the City Response Playbook in 2024.

Ika is Director of Urban Analytics at the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society in the Crawford School for Public Policy and Head of Democracy and Diplomacy at Municipal Association of Victoria. She also holds positions with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne. She has provided policy guidance to key actors globally including cities, national governments, G7 RRM, Council of Europe and UN-HABITAT.

Host:

John Richardson
Executive Director, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience