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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
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.
Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)
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.
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…
Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)
Dhaka, BangladeshOur aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.
Climate Intelligence (CLINT)
EuropeThe CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.
HURREVAC
Richmond, VAHURREVAC is the decision support tool of the [US] National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
Richmond, VAWe are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.
A 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
AID:Tech
Dublin, IrelandAID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.
AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID
Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge. It is saving costs of distributing aid, reducing delivery times, and bringing more transparency and accountability in the process. It offers an opportunity to improve how aid is delivered without compromising the dignity of beneficiaries.
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.
Humanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
A 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.
Over 3,500 jobs, internships, consultancies, and volunteer opportunities in disaster response and humanitarian relief
The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.
UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). It's main objective is to provide senior level inter-agency peer support to Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) to strengthen the delivery of collective humanitarian assistance and protection in country operations.
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.
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.
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandReport 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."
RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.
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
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.
Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Mapping can help change this.
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.
Because 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.
A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
CardiffAim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.
UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandThe 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.
Elixir
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.
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.
With 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
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