The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) hosted the first ever Data & Digital week from the 19th until the 23rd April 2021. Around 4,000 staff and volunteers from the Red Cross Red Crescent network gathered online to share, learn, and...
IFRC Data & Digital Week 2021 Report During the first ever IFRC Data & Digital week, April 19-23, 2021, our global network gathered online to share data and digital innovations, insights and ideas. Around 4,000 Red Cross Red Crescent staff and volunteers from...
Check out the video below for a bright summary of this quarter’s essential headlines analyzed by IFRC’s Social Media Master, Dante Licona, during the 2021 Digital Skill-share. Every three months digital comms professionals spend a couple of hours analysing the...
Data is now the world’s most valuable resource. What does that mean for the IFRC, a century-old membership organisation, consisting of the world’s 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies? How can we tap the vast amounts of data exchanged across the IFRC...
Have you ever experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training with Virtual Reality (VR) technology? In order to support the learning of proper response in a real disaster situation without bringing any harm to people, Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre...
Global impact Efficiently collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments is vital to our humanitarian activities. Replacing paper-based methods with digital tools for collecting data has radically improved the opportunities for collecting...
What is a rumor? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a rumor is “an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person”. Nowadays, spreading speculations is not limited to one country or one...
Originally published April 4 on Medium As a Technical Team lead specialising in Networks and Telephony for British Red Cross, our team had many plans in place at the start of 2020. A project to source a replacement Telephony solution to replace our legacy hardware was...
Originally published April 12 2021 on Medium Let me ask you a question… Can you name me a product? What’s the first thing that comes to your mind? I am going to guess that most of you thought of a physical item that you can purchase. As a team, Community Education has...
