The Data & Digital Week aimed to help National Societies (NS) connect with each other, and the wider network, and to learn from each other’s Digital Transformation efforts.
The Red Cross Red Crescent Journey to Digital Transformation
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Month: April 2021
IFRC Data & Digital Week Report
During the first ever IFRC Data & Digital week, April 19-23, 2021, our global network gathered online to…
Data and Digital Trends 2021 – IFRC Skillshare 2021
Check out the video below for a bright summary of this quarter’s essential headlines analyzed by IFRC's Social Media Master, Dante...
Information saves lives — scaling data analytics in the IFRC network
Data is now the world’s most valuable resource. What does that mean for the IFRC, a century-old membership organisation, consisting of...
Disaster drills in Virtual Reality
Have you ever experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training with Virtual Reality (VR) technology?
Embracing open source survey tools
Global impact Efficiently collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments is vital to our humanitarian...
Rumor Tracking: A Digital Transformation Approach
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”.
Interesting Times for Infrastructure
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.
When Product is a Service
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...
Innovation benefits and risks – balancing the aspects
Innovation, efficiency, cybersecurity, resilience, are some of the values all humanitarian organisations strive to excel at. There is a price to pay: one cannot be good at everything; the art is to find the right balance. Extreme efficiency tends to be vulnerable to disrupting factors, thus may be less resilient, just like an innovation workstream that needs to deal with a higher likelihood of failure can bear a higher cybersecurity risk by nature.
Beirut after the explosion: how technology is playing a vital role
The year 2020 in Lebanon, kick-started with ongoing revolutions, an economic crisis, a political collapse, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s unstable economic situation and the steady rise of COVID-19 cases were both major factors affecting the majority of the populations’ financial instability.
Semana digital y de datos 2021
Prepárese para aprender y compartir datos y habilidades digitales para acelerar la transformación digital de acuerdo con la Estrategia 2030.