The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by advances in AI and emerging technologies, alongside internal shifts in skills and workforce dynamics. National Societies must prioritise foundational digital investments in technology and data systems while also...
Digital Transformation
Navigating AI biases: ChatGPT, DALL-E and humanitarian workers
In a recent workshop on Generative Artificial Intelligence in the IFRC network, participants asked "How can we ensure that AI-driven humanitarian tools adhere to ethical guidelines, avoid biases, and prioritize the well-being of the communities they aim to serve?"....
How major tech changes have transformed the way we work
IFRC Alumni have asked for some contemporary opinion on how changes in technology have affected ways of working in the humanitarian sector. Where do we start? It might depend on what we consider ‘humanitarian’? From the earliest times, human beings have developed...
Review Your IFRC Data Playbook v1
We’ve spent over a year designing, upgrading, and testing content for the IFRC Data Playbook v1. Thousands of hours by over 270 contributors from the RCRC network (and some allies), including over 50 live events to co-curate 120 exercises, games, scenarios,...
Join Testing the Data Playbook content in October
We’re getting ready to launch the Data Playbook in December 2021. We’ve convened 1000s during IFRC Data and Digital Week and 100s in the Data Playbook v1 project. There is currently structure and content for all ten playbook modules (building on the Data Playbook...
Evolving and Iterating the Data Playbook V1 during our second co-creation sprint
Introduction We are hosting iterative sprints to design and get input to the development of the Data Playbook V1. We launched the Data Playbook (Beta) in 2018 and have been learning about how teams and participants of training can build their abilities to design...