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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.
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 No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.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.
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
Make Logistics a Positive Force for Social and Environmental Impact
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.
Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.
How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?
European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds
A global forum to discuss and debate digital transformation within the humanitarian sector, with a focus on data protection laws and humanitarian protection, policy, ethics and action.
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
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)
RomaniaCode for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine
Alerta de enchentes
Brazil (Brasil)The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.
Agency
AfricaAt Agency, we ally with civil society organizations in Africa and Latin America, along with their partners and networks, to advance the resilience and future preparedness of the ecosystem.
Centre for Humanitarian Data
Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, NetherlandsConnecting people and data to improve lives
A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning
Sandy Coworking Map
New York CityIn the light of Hurricane Sandy displacing the region's businesses, this is a map of area business helping each other out. Here you will find locations to work, recharge, and reconnect.
Health Sites
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.
Blockchange
2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USAAn initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.
Neon Air
ColombiaHEAVY LIFT AND MICRO UAV / UAS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE, INDUSTRIAL, CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION
Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.
Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.
IBM-sponsored challenge for creating and deploying open source technologies to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges
Project Carola
BerlinContainerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines
Google Crisis Map
Mountain View, CA, USAA collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.
Ignis
Lincoln, NE, USAThe 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.
Bots for Charity
Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USADirect Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.DSU's aim is to provide citizens with a quick tool for information and reportings about critical situations and disasters which they are witnessing.What do you find inside DSU app: - articles, news and official statements of the Department for Emergency Situations;- information about weather alerts, traffic alerts and natural disasters;- a section for reporting events which you are witnesses (fire, flood, accident i.e.);- a section for informing you about how to act effectively in critical situations and the behaviour you should adopt;- tests for verifying your knowledge.We are excited to provide this useful tool and hope you will enjoy using it.DSU TeamPS: Your feedback is important to us. We welcome and appreciate your opinions, suggestions and rankings.
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Refugees United
Kampala Accountancy Bureau, Plot 3 Wampewo Avenue, Kampala, UgandaREUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.
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