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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.
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.
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Make Logistics a Positive Force for Social and Environmental Impact
Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.
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.
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?
The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.
The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services. These apps can help solve problems in a variety of public domains, such as healthcare, crime, disaster management, citizen engagement, transportation, traffic, education, etc.
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.
European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds
Counting Us mobile app
575 Washington Street, Canton, MA 02021The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.
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
Допомога (Dopomoha)
RomaniaCode for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine
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.
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
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.
OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW
Humanitarian Data Exchange
The Hague, NetherlandsFind, share and use humanitarian data all in one place
IBM-sponsored challenge for creating and deploying open source technologies to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges
Voice of Kibera
KenyaVoice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.
Project Carola
BerlinContainerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines
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