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Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants (DRAI)
San FranciscoCode for America effort. DRAI distributed emergency cash assistance to immigrants who were undocumented and had lost income or suffered health impacts from COVID-19.
We initially designed it as a decision support tool for humanitarian mappers. Now it has grown in functionality and use cases. Whether you work in disaster management, build a smart city, or perform research on climate change, Disaster Ninja can help you in a number of ways (see more info on website).
Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma
Disaster Relief by Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States of America"A five-member team of Amazon product and program managers connecting with nonprofits worldwide and are ready to respond to requests for resources during a disaster." - GovTech
Starlink cellular connectivity in disasters
Redmond, WASpace X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones
This book offers the most vital, up-to-date research within the field of disaster management technologies, offering research and updates from authors from around the world, with a variety of perspectives and insights into the most cutting edge technology the field has to offer--Provided by publisher
Summary of a Workshop on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management culminates phase 1 of the project
The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.
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
ohsomeNow Stats
HeidelbergohsomeNow Stats is being developed and provided by HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) and offers up-to-date and global scale overview statistics on mapping activity in OpenStreetMap (OSM).
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
United States of America (the)HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. They work together to create open map data which revolutionises disaster management by enabling disaster responders to reach those in need, and contributes to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Pontem Pro
European Union (EU)Pontem Pro closes learning gaps and makes the German education system more accessible, understandable and feasible for migrants - for better education, integration and career opportunities.
GeoMatch
United States of America (the)GeoMatch works in many settings, from refugee resettlement to immigration agencies and nonprofits that help aspiring immigrants. They tailor the software to the client’s needs.
FindHello
United States of America (the)FindHello is an app built in partnership with the UNHCR by USAHello, a non-profit organization that uses technology to connect immigrant communities with the information and resources they need to thrive. It seeks to target refugees who migrate to the USA.
Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D)
Middle East and North AfricaROW3D is a consortium of different partners including technologists, aid workers, entrepreneurs and medics focusing on humanitarian innovation - primarily equipping refugees with skills to use digital fabrication techniques to manufacture essential supplies.
Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)
United States of America (the)The organisation focuses on making skilled migration systems for refugees more accessible, and to create a world where displaced people can safely migrate for work, using their skills to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose. It also collaborates with governments to achieve its purpose.
Jangala
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Jangala is a technology charity dedicated to providing essential internet access globally, with the goal of connecting 4 million people to the internet by 2030. Founded in 2015 as a volunteer initiative providing Wi-Fi to 5,000 people in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, Jangala offers a unique approach through its novel connectivity solutions, and takes great pride in its strong partnerships with international aid actors, grassroots organisations and public bodies.
Contratados.org
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoContratados.org allows workers to share their experiences and write reviews about their recruiters and employers in order to make the recruitment process transparent and generate a mechanism for accountability for compliance or non-compliance with the obligations of employers and/or recruiters.
Needslist
United States of America (the)NeedsList matches community needs with offers of support, making humanitarian assistance and disaster response cheaper, faster, and more targeted.
Berlin Mondiale
BerlinTo make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.
The Refugee Buddy Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A community group led by migrants and refugees formed in 2017, to provides support in the form of buddies, advocacy, financial and emotional support for refugees seeking safety in Scotland (specifically Hastings, Rother, and Wealden).
Refugee Info Bus
European Union (EU)Refugee Info Bus provides multilingual legal information, wifi and phone charge for displaced people.
Refugee Info
European Union (EU)Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.
NaTakallam
United States of America (the)NaTakallam leverages the freelance digital economy to provide income to refugees, displaced persons & their host community members, by hiring them as online tutors, teachers, translators & cultural exchange partners, regardless of their location & status.
Children On The Edge
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Children on the Edge is a child rights organisation created to support the world’s most marginalised children, living in some of the toughest situations. We currently work with more than 20,000 children in Bangladesh, India, Uganda, Myanmar, and Lebanon.
Humans In The Loop
European Union (EU)Our goal is to provide digital work and training opportunities in some of the areas of the world which are hit hardest by armed conflict and forced displacement. We recognize the complexity of working in such fragile contexts and in order to navigate the challenges around employing and paying people in these locations, we partner with a network of established local organizations with a proven track record.
Refugees Welcome International
European Union (EU)The Refugees Welcome International network is united by its shared mission to provide private accommodations for refugees all over the world, with the aims of fostering exchange between refugees and locals, combatting discrimination and prejudice, and supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the establishment of local social networks.
Humanity Crew
European Union (EU)Humanity Crew is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that communities affected by crises receive the critical mental health and psychosocial support they need.
Techfugees
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Techfugees is an initiative that supports the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world. It also enables the creation and application of tech-enabled solutions to manage migration.
Awana Digital
United States of America (the)Digital Democracy’s mission is to work in solidarity with frontline and indigenous communities to use technology to defend their environmental and human rights. We partner with environmental defenders to co-design and co-develop tools they can use to defend critical ecosystems and Indigenous cultures. Digital Democracy helps our partners achieve transformative change and works toward a world where all people can participate in decisions that govern their lives.
Phone Credits for Refugees (PC4R)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)PC4R was set up in February 2016 by James Pearce as a way to provide phone credits to people in refugee camps.
EUMigraTool (EMT)
European Union (EU)The EMT is created with the purpose of designing models to predict migration in the EU and to develop a trustworthy tool that can exclusively be used by municipalities and civil society organisations. The tool is also beneficial in providing policy recommendations for receiving migration flows in the EU in accordance with human rights and for optimising integration of refugees in host countries.
Project Dastaan
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Project Dastaan is a peace-building initiative which examines the human impact of global migration through the lens of the largest forced migration in recorded history, the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
pardesi.org.np
South AsiaAn information portal for Nepalese migrants to bridge the gap in their access to information.
Refugee Phrasebook
European Union (EU)The Refugee Phrasebook is a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immediate needs. It is an open collaborative project that assembles important phrases from various fields, building a collection of useful words and phrases for refugees who just arrived.
Paper Airplanes
United States of America (the)Paper Airplanes is a non-profit that seeks to prepare university students in conflict zones to be able to finish their university degrees through English language programs, among other initiatives.
MeshPoint One
European Union (EU)MeshPoint One believes that access to Internet is one of basic human rights. Their mission is to enable Internet access and improve the quality of life for people in disaster struck areas. Also by empowering people in rural communities to take action to build their own village telecoms to address disadvantage, become more sustainable and increase local control. Currently, they are focused on Syrian refugees in Croatia.
Re:Match
European Union (EU)Developing and applying a preference-based algorithm that brings together welcoming cities and people seeking protection, Re:Match aims to bring just, sustainable and human-rights centered innovation to the field of migration governance.
Shuvayatra
South AsiaTo help make the process of labour migration safer and more secure, Shuvayatra is a free mobile app that is placing the combined knowledge of experts, advocates, and the global Nepali diaspora in the hands of migrant workers. Source It is a joint project from The Asia Foundation, the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), and YoungInnovations.
Fugees Family
United States of America (the)Fugees Family is a national nonprofit organization that partners with public school districts and communities to better serve refugee and immigrant students. Fugees is reimagining the ways educators connect with newcomer students
Watch The Med
European Union (EU)Watch The Med is an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at the maritime borders of the EU. The WatchTheMed project was initiated as part of the 2012 Boats4People campaign in the Central Mediterranean. Today the project further involves a wide network of organisations, activists and researchers. Through the transnational cooperation with migrants’ rights organisations, activists, researchers, migrants, seafarers active in, around and beyond the Mediterranean and the use of new mapping technologies, WatchTheMed aims to document the deaths and violations that are the structural product of the militarized Southern European border regime. The online map allows to spatialise incidents across the complex legal and political geography of the Mediterranean Sea. Through the accounts of survivors and witnesses, but also the analysis of ocean currents, winds, mobile phone data and satellite imagery, it is possible to determine in which Search and Rescue zone, jurisdictions and operational areas an incident occurred – as well as showing other boats who were in the vicinity of those in distress. Spatialising such information is essential to determine responsibility for violations at sea. Apart from reconstructing past events, the participatory nature of the platform allows many different actors to to indicate ongoing situations of distress. The documentation generated by WatchTheMed seeks to support the work of organisations that defend migrants’ rights, inform migrants of their rights and security at sea, pressure authorities into respecting their obligations at sea, support the ongoing campaigns by the relatives of the dead and disappeared at sea, and support legal proceedings against those who violated the rights of migrants.
Tarjimly
United States of America (the)A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.
Hababy
European Union (EU)Hababy is a web app for prenatal, and postnatal care for refugee women.
OCHA carried out two global survey to assess the consequences of the US funding freeze on humanitarian action globally. The first round, in February, looked at the impact of the suspension orders and waivers. The second was launched in March following the announcement of the US grants’ termination, in collaboration with IOM, UNHCR and ICVA.
Humanitarian Action provides a comprehensive overview of the humanitarian landscape by providing both an annual snapshot complemented by analysis, and live data on on humanitarian crises and response.
Engineers Without Borders International (EWB-I)
Boulder, COWe’re on a mission to mobilise a global network of engineers for good.
ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection
Oslo, NorwayNorwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.
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