Community Intelligence Network
Communities hold knowledge the World needs
The Community Intelligence Network is a global participative research platform that invites volunteers and community members to actively participate in research on key humanitarian issues. Their collective findings inform humanitarian discussions, policies and strategies, both globally and at local levels.
What We Do
- Built on the intersection of Collective Intelligence and Community Engagement and Accountability principles, the Network complements more traditional approaches to research and expertise.
- Members of the network are Community Researchers. They collaborate across boundaries and languages as they share lines of inquiry, and produce highly contextualised insights from the communities that they belong to or work with daily.
- Community researchers build and strengthen their qualitative research skills, and learn cutting edge approaches such as community based foresight and horizon scanning
Community Researchers
Who Can Join & Contribute
- Red Cross and Red Crescent National Society Volunteers & staff (at least 18 years old)
- National Societies
- Anybody or organisation interested in participative community-centred research
Why Join the INTL Network as a Researcher
- Produce real-time insights from your context and priorities
- Collaborate with global peers, and learn from them
- Contrast your insights with insights from other researchers.
- Develop and showcase qualitative research skills
- Contribute in any language
Explore Our Work
- Current research projects
- Topic: “Harmful information and trust in disaster and crises settings: community impact and resilience”
- Publication: World Disaster Report 2026 on Harmful Information
- Community Researchers: 40, performed, analyzed and interpreted 100+ interviews, wrote country analysis and reviewed the global summary published in the Report.
- Dates: July — August 2025.
- Supporters: University of Northumbria, Open Lab (University of Newcastle), University of Michigan (incl. students)
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- Past research projects:
- Topic: Community Voices Interviews
- Presented at: International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent 2024, podcast, installation, conference opening video.
Partnership
Why Partner With Us
- Produce, support and explore highly contextualised, community based insights
- Global reach with highly contextualised insights grounded in lived experiences
How You Can Support
- Submit research tracks
- Provide technical expertise/tools
- Promote the Network
- Amplifying findings to organisations, groups of interest and decision makers
Benefits for Supporters
- Shape global and local level humanitarian dialogue
- Contribute to the capacity-building of volunteers and community members
- Contribute to the generation of aggregated community insights by community members
- Access their insights
- Recognition in publications and reports.
- Strengthen your organization’s connection to local intelligence and narratives
Contact INTL
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