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.
Charities Affected by Freeze in Foreign Assistance Funding
Charity Navigator's list of 3- and 4-star organizations whose programs may be affected by the Trump Administration's funding freeze.
USAID Stop-Work
Tracking. Informing.
Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa
Article in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke
CARE International
CARE is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental....
Безпечне небо (SafeSky)
Small donor campaign to help protect Kyiv from aerial bombing
Watch Duty
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.
EGOV Repositories
Discover the United Nations University EGOV's repository platform, a centralized hub of specialized repositories tackling global challenges.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Starlink cellular connectivity in disasters
Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones
GeoMSF Platform
A full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres
AI for Changemakers
A global accelerator for AI innovators and nonprofits working to solve the world’s pressing challenges.
Can digital humanitarian aid reach vulnerable populations in fragile states?
Evidence from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shows that digital aid is a cost-effective, credible, and efficient way to reach vulnerable populations, in this case poor, tech-illiterate, female-headed...
MapSwipe
Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.
Rapid
Rapid integrates advanced mapping tools, authoritative geospatial open data, and cutting-edge technology to empower OpenStreetMap mappers at all levels to get started quickly, making accurate and fres...
DisasterNinja
We initially designed it as a decision support tool for humanitarian mappers. Now it has grown in functionality and use cases. Whether you work in disaster management, build a smart city, or perform r...
Mapeo
Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & huma...
HOT Export Tool
The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.
MapRoulette
MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way
City of Houston Debris Hauling Progress
Mapping debris cleanup following Hurricane Beryl 2024
CORES RMS (Responder Management System)
Modernized Volunteer Management for Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Crisis Track
Damage assessment software designed to rapidly and accurately collect damage assessments for FEMA’s disaster declaration process
FloodLight
A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.
Data For Crisis
A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practition...
KIKI, Virtual Human Interpreter
The world's first text-to-sign interpreter for emergency alerts
Portable Network Kits
The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and govern...
Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)
Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.
Climate Intelligence (CLINT)
The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algori...
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
We 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.
HURREVAC
HURREVAC is the decision support tool of the [US] National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies.
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024
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.
Mapping Humanitarian Tech
Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes
UnBlocked Cash Project
Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge
AID:Tech
AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.
Kare
AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID
Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology
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 an...
Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters
Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma
ReliefWeb Numbers
The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.
Humanitarian ID
Humanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
Jobs4Dev
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...
ReliefWeb
Informing humanitarians worldwide
Peer 2 Peer Support
UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)
Kyiv Digital app
Digitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"
Welcome Alliance
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 integ...
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts
Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective
Humanitarian AI Today
Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.
Sudan Safe Passages Amen
"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...
ReliefWeb Response
RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.
Nidaa
"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 require...
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
With its partners, OCHA contributes to principled and effective humanitarian response through coordination, advocacy, policy, information management and humanitarian financing tools and services.