by Heather Leson and IFRC Solferino Academy | Dec 5, 2024 | Trends and Transformations
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...
by Laurent Fernandez Soldevila | Mar 27, 2024 | Thought Pieces
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...
by Dr Alasdair Gordon - Gibson | Jan 31, 2023 | Insights and Inspirations
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...
by Heather Leson | Feb 24, 2022 | Insights and Inspirations
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,...
by Heather Leson and Dirk Slater | Oct 1, 2021 | Insights and Inspirations
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...
by Heather Leson and Dirk Slater | Aug 9, 2021 | Insights and Inspirations
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...
by IFRC Solferino Academy | Jul 21, 2021 | Insights and Inspirations
April 2021 saw the Red Cross Red Crescent’s first-ever week-long, participant-driven and fully virtual event organised around one theme: data and digital. Around 4,000 staff and volunteers from the Red Cross Red Crescent network gathered online to share, learn, and...
by Juha Leppänen | May 10, 2021 | Thought Pieces
Crises are by definition breaking points. Something that we thought would hold – peace, health, transit system, electric supply, a way of life, a society – shatters. While dealing with the crisis, our understanding of the vulnerability of our world increases, as does...
by Heather Leson and Karl John Pedersen | Dec 17, 2020 | Insights and Inspirations, Trends and Transformations
Shaping a Digital Strategy with Partners How can we collaborate with partners on our digital transformation journey? IFRC and the Solferino Academy have had great success working with partners throughout. Over the past 2 years, IFRC and DNV GL have been on a journey...
