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There's a long tradition of volunteer technologists rallying to aid communities in the aftermath of a disaster or humanitarian crisis. Many of the problems and solutions, such as managing skilled volunteers remotely, apply to other domains in the Civic Tech Field Guide. See also: Participatory Aid.

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IFRC GO

IFRC GO

Williamsburg, VA

IFRC GO aims to make all disaster information universally accessible and useful to IFRC responders for better decision making.

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility

The GBV AoR brings together non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring life-saving, predictable, accountable and effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response in emergencies, both natural disaster and conflict-related humanitarian contexts.

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement

Sahana Software Foundation

Sahana makes high quality information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building accessible to all.

GANNET

GANNET

Williamsburg, VA

GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.

Charities Affected by Freeze in Foreign Assistance Funding

Charity Navigator's list of 3- and 4-star organizations whose programs may be affected by the Trump Administration's funding freeze.

Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa

Article in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke

Global Aid Freeze Tracker

These are the results of a survey measuring the impact on organizations across the world affected by the US Government aid freeze.

CARE International

CARE is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.

Watch Duty

Watch Duty

Santa Rosa, California, USA

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

EGOV Repositories

EGOV Repositories

Guimarães, Portugal

Discover the United Nations University EGOV's repository platform, a centralized hub of specialized repositories tackling global challenges.

Starlink cellular connectivity in disasters

Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones

GeoMSF Platform

GeoMSF Platform

Washington, DC

A full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres

Can digital humanitarian aid reach vulnerable populations in fragile states?

Evidence from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shows that digital aid is a cost-effective, credible, and efficient way to reach vulnerable populations, in this case poor, tech-illiterate, female-headed households, in fragile states.

MapRoulette

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

Mapeo

Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.

MapSwipe

MapSwipe

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.

DisasterNinja

We initially designed it as a decision support tool for humanitarian mappers. Now it has grown in functionality and use cases. Whether you work in disaster management, build a smart city, or perform research on climate change, Disaster Ninja can help you in a number of ways (see more info on website).

Rapid

Rapid integrates advanced mapping tools, authoritative geospatial open data, and cutting-edge technology to empower OpenStreetMap mappers at all levels to get started quickly, making accurate and fresh edits to maps.

HOT Export Tool

The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.

Crisis Track

Damage assessment software designed to rapidly and accurately collect damage assessments for FEMA’s disaster declaration process

FloodLight

FloodLight

Pakistan

A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

Data For Crisis

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to public data

Portable Network Kits

Portable Network Kits

New York City, NY, USA

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

Climate Intelligence (CLINT)

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science...

Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

HURREVAC

HURREVAC

Richmond, VA

HURREVAC is the decision support tool of the [US] National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

British Red Cross

British Red Cross

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies.

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024

Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, Netherlands

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

AID:Tech

AID:Tech

Dublin, Ireland

AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.

Kare

Kare

Dublin, Ireland

AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID

Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

Jobs4Dev

Jobs4Dev

New York City

A mobile app to help humanitarians find their ideal role. Search for jobs and filter via organisation, location, experience and career category. Save jobs to your library, share with others and apply directly through the app.

ReliefWeb Numbers

ReliefWeb Numbers

New York City

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

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