Projects - Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

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.

Допомога (Dopomoha)

Romania

Code for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine

Centre for Humanitarian Data

Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, Netherlands

Connecting people and data to improve lives

Technosylva

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

fires

Health Sites

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) (HOTOSM)

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.

Humanity Road

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

Google Person Finder

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

Google

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

Sahana Eden ASP

Sweden (Sverige)

Sahana EDEN ASP is an open source humanitarian aid management application with a specific focus on refugee case management.

WeFugees

Muskauer Str. 24, 10997 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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

refugees

Ushahidi

Nairobi

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

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.

human rights

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

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.

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.

Code for Australia Foresight

Victoria, Australia

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

Vframe

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

human rights

Code & Response (film)

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

CanDo

Everyone a humanitarian

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.

refugees

Humanitarian Data Exchange

The Hague, Netherlands

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

Facebook Safety Check

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Crisis Response is a place on Facebook where you can find information about recent crises, use Safety Check to connect with friends and loved ones during a crisis, give or find help to people in the affected area, and create or donate to fundraisers to support recovery efforts.

Facebook

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.