European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds

• Ukraine

• Resource matching and sharing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

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

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

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.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A compendium of ways to help, in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian language

• Ukraine
• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid

Connecting people and data to improve lives

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• refugees

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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.

• human rights

• Media and social media analysis
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

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

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

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

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

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

• Tech for public challenges
• Civic tech catalogs
• Government transparency

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

• human rights

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

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.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Civic maps

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

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

• refugees

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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

• Google

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Data schemas and standards

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

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Tech for public challenges
• Crowdsourcing

Fostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19

• COVID-19

• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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…

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Everyone a humanitarian

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields