Projects - Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)

United States of America (the)

The organisation focuses on making skilled migration systems for refugees more accessible, and to create a world where displaced people can safely migrate for work, using their skills to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose. It also collaborates with governments to achieve its purpose.

The Refugee Buddy Project

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

A community group led by migrants and refugees formed in 2017, to provides support in the form of buddies, advocacy, financial and emotional support for refugees seeking safety in Scotland (specifically Hastings, Rother, and Wealden).

Refugee Phrasebook

European Union (EU)

The Refugee Phrasebook is a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immediate needs. It is an open collaborative project that assembles important phrases from various fields, building a collection of useful words and phrases for refugees who just arrived.

Tarjimly

United States of America (the)

A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.

NaTakallam

United States of America (the)

NaTakallam leverages the freelance digital economy to provide income to refugees, displaced persons & their host community members, by hiring them as online tutors, teachers, translators & cultural exchange partners, regardless of their location & status.

Watch The Med

European Union (EU)

Watch The Med is an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at the maritime borders of the EU. The WatchTheMed project was initiated as part of the 2012 Boats4People campaign in the Central Mediterranean. Today the project further involves a wide network of organisations, activists and researchers. Through the transnational cooperation with migrants’ rights organisations, activists, researchers, migrants, seafarers active in, around and beyond the Mediterranean and the use of new mapping technologies, WatchTheMed aims to document the deaths and violations that are the structural product of the militarized Southern European border regime. The online map allows to spatialise incidents across the complex legal and political geography of the Mediterranean Sea. Through the accounts of survivors and witnesses, but also the analysis of ocean currents, winds, mobile phone data and satellite imagery, it is possible to determine in which Search and Rescue zone, jurisdictions and operational areas an incident occurred – as well as showing other boats who were in the vicinity of those in distress. Spatialising such information is essential to determine responsibility for violations at sea. Apart from reconstructing past events, the participatory nature of the platform allows many different actors to to indicate ongoing situations of distress. The documentation generated by WatchTheMed seeks to support the work of organisations that defend migrants’ rights, inform migrants of their rights and security at sea, pressure authorities into respecting their obligations at sea, support the ongoing campaigns by the relatives of the dead and disappeared at sea, and support legal proceedings against those who violated the rights of migrants.

FindHello

United States of America (the)

FindHello is an app built in partnership with the UNHCR by USAHello, a non-profit organization that uses technology to connect immigrant communities with the information and resources they need to thrive. It seeks to target refugees who migrate to the USA.

Paper Airplanes

United States of America (the)

Paper Airplanes is a non-profit that seeks to prepare university students in conflict zones to be able to finish their university degrees through English language programs, among other initiatives.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Phone Credits for Refugees (PC4R)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

PC4R was set up in February 2016 by James Pearce as a way to provide phone credits to people in refugee camps.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Re:Match

European Union (EU)

Developing and applying a preference-based algorithm that brings together welcoming cities and people seeking protection, Re:Match aims to bring just, sustainable and human-rights centered innovation to the field of migration governance.

Refugee Info

European Union (EU)

Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.

Pontem Pro

European Union (EU)

Pontem Pro closes learning gaps and makes the German education system more accessible, understandable and feasible for migrants - for better education, integration and career opportunities.

Fugees Family

United States of America (the)

Fugees Family is a national nonprofit organization that partners with public school districts and communities to better serve refugee and immigrant students. Fugees is reimagining the ways educators connect with newcomer students

pardesi.org.np

South Asia

An information portal for Nepalese migrants to bridge the gap in their access to information.

Techfugees

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Techfugees is an initiative that supports the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world. It also enables the creation and application of tech-enabled solutions to manage migration.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Needslist

United States of America (the)

NeedsList matches community needs with offers of support, making humanitarian assistance and disaster response cheaper, faster, and more targeted.

Contratados.org

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Contratados.org allows workers to share their experiences and write reviews about their recruiters and employers in order to make the recruitment process transparent and generate a mechanism for accountability for compliance or non-compliance with the obligations of employers and/or recruiters.

GeoMatch

United States of America (the)

GeoMatch works in many settings, from refugee resettlement to immigration agencies and nonprofits that help aspiring immigrants. They tailor the software to the client’s needs.

Awana Digital

United States of America (the)

Digital Democracy’s mission is to work in solidarity with frontline and indigenous communities to use technology to defend their environmental and human rights. We partner with environmental defenders to co-design and co-develop tools they can use to defend critical ecosystems and Indigenous cultures. Digital Democracy helps our partners achieve transformative change and works toward a world where all people can participate in decisions that govern their lives.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Jangala

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Jangala is a technology charity dedicated to providing essential internet access globally, with the goal of connecting 4 million people to the internet by 2030. Founded in 2015 as a volunteer initiative providing Wi-Fi to 5,000 people in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, Jangala offers a unique approach through its novel connectivity solutions, and takes great pride in its strong partnerships with international aid actors, grassroots organisations and public bodies.

Berlin Mondiale

Berlin

To make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Project Dastaan

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Project Dastaan is a peace-building initiative which examines the human impact of global migration through the lens of the largest forced migration in recorded history, the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Humanity Crew

European Union (EU)

Humanity Crew is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that communities affected by crises receive the critical mental health and psychosocial support they need.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Refugees Welcome International

European Union (EU)

The Refugees Welcome International network is united by its shared mission to provide private accommodations for refugees all over the world, with the aims of fostering exchange between refugees and locals, combatting discrimination and prejudice, and supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the establishment of local social networks.

Children On The Edge

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Children on the Edge is a child rights organisation created to support the world’s most marginalised children, living in some of the toughest situations. We currently work with more than 20,000 children in Bangladesh, India, Uganda, Myanmar, and Lebanon.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Humans In The Loop

European Union (EU)

Our goal is to provide digital work and training opportunities in some of the areas of the world which are hit hardest by armed conflict and forced displacement. We recognize the complexity of working in such fragile contexts and in order to navigate the challenges around employing and paying people in these locations, we partner with a network of established local organizations with a proven track record.

US funding freeze global survey

OCHA carried out two global survey to assess the consequences of the US funding freeze on humanitarian action globally. The first round, in February, looked at the impact of the suspension orders and waivers. The second was launched in March following the announcement of the US grants’ termination, in collaboration with IOM, UNHCR and ICVA.

Humanitarian Action Glossary

Humanitarian Action

Humanitarian Action provides a comprehensive overview of the humanitarian landscape by providing both an annual snapshot complemented by analysis, and live data on on humanitarian crises and response.

United Nations

Engineers Without Borders International (EWB-I)

Boulder, CO

We’re on a mission to mobilise a global network of engineers for good.

ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection

Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.

Decidim

Nexus Environment Assessment Tool (NEAT+)

Williamsburg, VA

Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Gannet SituationHub Sudan

Williamsburg, VA

Analyses on the conflict in Sudan

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP)

Williamsburg, VA

A collaborative analysis platform for effective aid response

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility

Geneva, Switzerland

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.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

IFRC GO

Williamsburg, VA

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

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Williamsburg, VA

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

refugees

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Sahana Software Foundation

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

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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.

Data Friendly Space (DFS)

Williamsburg, VA

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

USAID Stop-Work

Cincinnati, Ohio

Tracking. Informing.

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.

Project 2025

Charities Affected by Freeze in Foreign Assistance Funding

United States of America (the)

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

Project 2025

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

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

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

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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.