Adjacent Fields > Tech for public challenges > Disaster response and humanitarian tech - (81)

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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Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)

Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)

888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

Centre for Humanitarian Data

Centre for Humanitarian Data

Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, Netherlands

Connecting people and data to improve lives

Refugees United

Refugees United

Kampala Accountancy Bureau, Plot 3 Wampewo Avenue, Kampala, Uganda

REUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.

Amnesty Decoders

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

Outreach Grid

Outreach Grid

Irvine, CA

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

One Concern

One Concern

Menlo Park, California, United States

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

Blockchange

Blockchange

2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

Humanitarian Data Exchange

Humanitarian Data Exchange

The Hague, Netherlands

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

Code for Australia Foresight

Code for Australia Foresight

Victoria, Australia

Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.

Ignis

Ignis

Lincoln, NE, USA

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

Bots for Charity

Bots for Charity

Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

Health Sites

Health Sites

Netherlands (the)

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

WeFugees

WeFugees

Muskauer Str. 24, 10997 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

the first and only Multi-Stakeholder Question & Answer Community for refugee topics

Google Crisis Map

Google Crisis Map

Mountain View, CA, USA

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

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

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

Google Person Finder

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

Perimeter

Perimeter

Bay Area, CA, USA

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

Ushahidi

Ushahidi

Nairobi

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response

Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter's search box above and you'll see more tweets than you can possibly read in a day let alone keep up with for more than a few minutes. Wish there way were an easy, free and open…

MapAction

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

Humanity Road

Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.

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