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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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ReliefWeb
New York CityInforming humanitarians worldwide
UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)
Kyiv Digital app
KyivDigitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"
Welcome Alliance
Germany (Deutschland)The Welcome Alliance is an alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies initiated by ProjectTogether. Our goal is humane, needs-oriented and sustainable integration and participation of all new immigrants in Germany.
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective
Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.
Sudan Safe Passages Amen
Khartoum, Sudan"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu
ReliefWeb Response
New York CityRW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.
With its partners, OCHA contributes to principled and effective humanitarian response through coordination, advocacy, policy, information management and humanitarian financing tools and services.
Nidaa
Khartoum, Sudan"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."
PetaBencana.id
JakartaPetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
Urban Ocean Lab
San FranciscoUrban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.
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.
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HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005Because 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.
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
CardiffAim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.
Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian Emergencies
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub
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
Batticaloa, 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.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005With 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.
Internet Activism
Michigan, USAA 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.
OpenSPP is a scalable, integrated and digital social protection information 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.
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.
The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.
Digital Humanitarian Network
EuropeOutfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.
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
Response Innovation Lab Iraq
Iraq (al-ʿIrāq)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.
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Flexport.org uses logistics as a positive force for social and environmental impact - enabling organizations to deliver global aid and meet their sustainability goals with greater ease and lower costs.
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
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
Information sheets for people fleeing Ukraine, in English and Ukranian
Ways to help Ukraine
Poland (Polska)A compendium of ways to help, in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian language
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