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...
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Rumor Tracking: A Digital Transformation Approach
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...
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...
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...
Rise of the humans
Originally posted on Medium, Feb 26 We are all starved of human contact. The churn of crowds feels alien yet people continue to achieve amazing things together; we have designed tests, developed vaccines, and rallied to help the hardest hit. Human kindness is...
From everything on paper to everything digital
Photo Credits: Red Cross Aruba and Red Cross Curaçao Reaching 3500% more people than before - Red Cross’ road to digitalisation in the Dutch Caribbean (Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten). The Red Cross branches in the Dutch...