With the incessant noise about AI and generative AI, teams from the IFRC network are continually exploring. How can we adjust our work with these new tools? What are the needs and restrictions to the use of AI in our work? AI is changing our humanitarian work, and...
In a world where crises and migrations are increasingly complex, the journey of individuals like Fatima, a migrant in search of both financial aid and continuous healthcare, highlights the challenges faced due to disconnected humanitarian systems. Just consider the...
We recently organized a series of workshops with the IFRC on Digital ID to review recent learning and experiences. The workshops were organized around the following question: What should the IFRC’s vision for digital identity look like? Some of the pieces are...
“Telling a National Society that you want to support them with data literacy can be confusing and unclear. Data literacy is a broad term encompassing many possible activities and could mean something different to many people. Every National Society will have a...
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...
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...
