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The Alliance for Global Open Risk Assessment (AGORA) is conceived as a nonprofit, international virtual organization created to promote and coordinate development of open-source risk software and methodologies to perform end-to-end risk modeling. (End-to-end refers to modeling the occurrence of hazardous events, site effects, physical damage to the built environment, and economic and human impacts.)

The AGORA Framework

• Risk analysis is the foundation of risk reduction.
• We all share natural and technological hazards risk.
• Risk analysis is most broadly accepted and used when
  • Risk methodologies are open
  • Risk software is open source, and
  • Fundamental risk data (such as hazard and vulnerability) are open

Therefore, Agora supports

• Open risk analysis
• Open risk methodologies
• Open risk tools, including open-source software
• Open risk data (such as hazard and vulnerability)
• Shared and collaborative development of methods, tools and data, and
• Open communication of risk results

While respecting individual initiative and the individual’s right to the fruits of that initiative.

See also

• Agora homepage
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