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The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024
Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, NetherlandsA ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.
Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes
Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge
AID:Tech
Dublin, IrelandAID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.
Kare
Dublin, IrelandAID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID
We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.
ReliefWeb Numbers
New York CityThe new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.
ReliefWeb ICT Jobs
New York CityOver 3,500 jobs, internships, consultancies, and volunteer opportunities in disaster response and humanitarian relief
Humanitarian ID
New York CityHumanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
Jobs4Dev
New York CityA mobile app to help humanitarians find their ideal role. Search for jobs and filter via organisation, location, experience and career category. Save jobs to your library, share with others and apply directly through the app.
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"
Alliance4Ukraine
Germany (Deutschland)We are a coordinating alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies. Our goal is to create an ecosystem of interlocking solutions for the needs of people on the run.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.
Democracy Defenders Accelerator
Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.
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.
Customer Experience Projects
Washington, DCThe Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas
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.
Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.
Ukraine Take Shelter
Michigan, USAUkraineTakeShelter.com is an independent platform helping to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts and housing.
Internet Activism
Michigan, USAA 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.
Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.
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.
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