Disaster response and humanitarian tech
There's a long tradition of volunteer technologists rallying to aid communities in the aftermath of a disaster or humanitarian crisis. Many of the problems and solutions, such as managing skilled volunteers remotely, apply to other domains in the Civic Tech Field Guide. See also: Participatory Aid.
Ring Fire Watch feature
Partnership with Watch Duty allows Ring owners to get alerts as well as share wildfire imagery with others
FireGuard Program
FireGuard uses military satellites with the National Interagency Fire Center, U.S. Forest Service and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Firefly capability to detect wildfires, notify autho...
iOS Emergency SOS Live Video
Emergency SOS Live Video allows users to share context through streaming video and recorded media.
Android Emergency Live Video
Share video with dispatchers
Disaster Navigator
Helping Angelenos After the 2025 Fires. Preparing to Guide Communities Everywhere.
Data Stewardship Toolkit
As humanitarian organisations, we often need to share data in order to help households and communities more efficiently and effectively. We developed this Toolkit as a resource to help you and your co...
DeepStateMAP | День 1297
Ukrainian government map of the war in Ukraine
Благодійний фонд "DeepStateUA"
FreedomLab
A virtual space for Human Rights Defenders
ConnectiveTX
Making social services more connected, empathetic and accessible
FEMA Wireless Emergency Alerts
Flash Flood Guidance System with Global Coverage (FFGS)
To address the issues associated with flash floods, especially the lack of capacity to develop effective flash flood warnings, the Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) was designed and developed for int...
ohsomeNow Stats
ohsomeNow 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 OpenStr...
Children On The Edge
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 childr...
Project Dastaan
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...
Berlin Mondiale
To make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.
FindHello
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 thr...
The Refugee Buddy Project
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 (specifical...
Watch The Med
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 Boats4...
Phone Credits for Refugees (PC4R)
PC4R was set up in February 2016 by James Pearce as a way to provide phone credits to people in refugee camps.
Pontem Pro
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.
pardesi.org.np
An information portal for Nepalese migrants to bridge the gap in their access to information.
Jangala
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 initia...
Refugees Welcome International
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 l...
Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)
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...
GeoMatch
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.
Re:Match
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...
NaTakallam
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 ex...
Humanity Crew
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.
Refugee Info
Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.
Refugee Phrasebook
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 fro...
Fugees Family
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 c...
Paper Airplanes
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.
Contratados.org
Contratados.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 accou...
Humans In The Loop
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...
US funding freeze global survey
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...
Humanitarian Action Glossary
Humanitarian Action
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)
We’re on a mission to mobilise a global network of engineers for good.
ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection
Norwegian 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 aspir...
Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility
The GBV AoR brings together non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring life-saving, predictable, accountable and effective GBV prevention,...
IFRC GO
IFRC GO aims to make all disaster information universally accessible and useful to IFRC responders for better decision making.
Gannet SituationHub Sudan
Analyses on the conflict in Sudan
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement
Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP)
A collaborative analysis platform for effective aid response
Nexus Environment Assessment Tool (NEAT+)
Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations
Sahana Software Foundation
Sahana makes high quality information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building accessible to all.
Data Friendly Space (DFS)
We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change
GANNET
GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.
Global Aid Freeze Tracker
These are the results of a survey measuring the impact on organizations across the world affected by the US Government aid freeze.