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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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Tracking Current Wildfires in the US
International Aid Transparency Initiative
Aid Effectiveness Team, Department of International Development, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G75 8EA, UKInternational Aid Transparency Initiative IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises.
In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!
Response Innovation Lab
UgandaDesigned to open humanitarian response to startups, social entrepreneurs, researchers, and other non-traditional actors capable of contributing solutions to the resopnse
The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.
In partnership with Google and Propel, GiveDirectly is automating cash aid to Propel users living in areas deemed damaged by satellite imagery
Flood Light
PakistanUshahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
Make Logistics a Positive Force for Social and Environmental Impact
Cine ce face (Who does what)
Romania”Cine ce face” is an information project through which citizens can get a clear and accurate picture of the roles of various institutional actors in case of an emergency.
Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)
888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CaliforniaAirbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.
European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds
Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map
UkraineIn 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.
Допомога (Dopomoha)
RomaniaCode for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine
Information sheets for people fleeing Ukraine, in English and Ukranian
Ways to help Ukraine
PolandA compendium of ways to help, in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian language
Centre for Humanitarian Data
Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, NetherlandsConnecting people and data to improve lives
Perimeter
Bay Area, CA, USACollaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.
Health Sites
Netherlands (the)Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap
MapAction
Oxfordshire, UKAn emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field
Outreach Grid
Irvine, CACollaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.
One Concern
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOur platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.
A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning
Ignis
Lincoln, NE, USAThe 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.
Blockchange
2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USAAn initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.
Google Crisis Map
Mountain View, CA, USAA collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.
En première ligne
FranceFostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19
Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.
Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.
WeFugees
Muskauer Str. 24, 10997 Berlin, Berlin, Germanythe first and only Multi-Stakeholder Question & Answer Community for refugee topics
Ushahidi
NairobiHelping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better
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.
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…
Humanitarian Data Exchange
The Hague, NetherlandsFind, share and use humanitarian data all in one place
Bots for Charity
Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USADirect Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
Code for Australia Foresight
Victoria, AustraliaForesight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.
A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises
VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers
Everyone a humanitarian
Refugees United
Kampala Accountancy Bureau, Plot 3 Wampewo Avenue, Kampala, UgandaREUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.
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