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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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Urban Ocean Lab
San FranciscoUrban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.
Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.
A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.
Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.
A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
CardiffAim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.
UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.
UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.
Response Innovation Lab Uganda
Kampala, UgandaThe Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.
Elixir
Sri LankaA platform to consolidate emergency medical needs across a country, create aid packages of medicines and supplies, centralize supplier quotations, select most cost-effective supplier, and match donors willing to fund aid packages.
With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.
Forerunner
San FranciscoThe Floodplain Management Platform for Resilient Communities
Turkish Earthquake Safe Spots Map - Deprem Güvenli Bölgeler Haritası
Yaprak, 27080 Şehitkamil/Gaziantep, TürkiyeGaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara
Informed Giving = More Effective Relief
RapidDeploy
Austin, TXRealtime data. Unified Public Safety workflow. Reduced emergency response times.
Talk to Loop
The Hague, NetherlandsLoop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).
Beirut Urban Observatory
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut LebanonThe Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.
Mapping NGOs Repairs
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut LebanonBetween March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.
Ukraine Take Shelter
Michigan, USAUkraineTakeShelter.com is an independent platform helping to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts and housing.
Internet Activism
Michigan, USAA 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.
Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.
OpenSPP is a scalable, integrated and digital social protection information system.
Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG)
The Hague, NetherlandsThe Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.
IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action
The Hague, NetherlandsWhile each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.
Digital Humanitarian Network
EuropeOutfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.
Over the past decade, alarms have sounded the need for the humanitarian sector to start seriously considering the impacts of technology and how it should be used. This paper aims to raise another but different alarm: The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.
Tracking Current Wildfires in the US
Fundar - Centro de Analisis e Investigacion
Cda. Alberto Zamora #21 Col. Villa Coyoacan Del. Coyoacan Mexico DF 04000
NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.
Institutul European Pentru Democratie Participativa - Qvorum
150 Stirbei Voda Street, sector 1, BucharestEuropean Institute for Participative Democracy
You Can Plan
YouCanPlan Team, Slider Studio Ltd, Knowledge Dock Centre, 4 University Way, London, E16 2RD, UK
Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, 4th Floor, UNI Building, Thimmiah Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore - 560052
Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.
Media Initiative for Open Governance in Uganda
Media Initiative for Open Governance in Uganda Kisasi Road Bukoto, Kampala Uganda
Participacion Ciudadana
Wenceslao Alvarez Street No.8, National District, Santo Domingo, Dominiciana Republic
An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.
Transparency International Pakistan
5-C, 2nd Floor, Khayaban-e-Ittehad, Phase VII, DHA, Karachi, Pakistan
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