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...
Month: April 2021
Interesting Times for Infrastructure
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...
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 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...
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...
Beirut after the explosion: how technology is playing a vital role
Photo credits: Lebanese Red Cross 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...
Data & Digital Week 2021
Get ready to learn and share data & digital skills to accelerate digital transformation in line with Strategy 2030. The IFRC Data & Digital Week is your platform to: Share & Learn data and digital skills, innovations and ideas. Engage with various...