Interoperability of systems can change the way organisations deliver aid, restoring people's dignity and ensuring safer and faster access to essential services. When humanitarian actors collect data in silos, we waste time and resources. Worse, we frustrate the very...
Spanish Red Cross have opened their Tech Awards to all Red Cross & Red Crescent volunteers and staff around the world who have been creating and deploying innovative technology solutions for their communities and National Societies. The Spanish Red Cross...
If you think you don’t need to design for safety, dignity and trust, you are missing something. New and emerging technologies have the potential to cause both great benefit and harm — yet the processes designed to develop and use these technologies rarely consider the...
In episode 2 of the Humanitech Perspective we asked ? Usman Iftikhar what problems he is looking to solve into the future? His answer Climate Migration, it was a powerful answer as it hits home to the realities that many people are facing around the globe...
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...
Photo credits: Lebanese Red Cross The year 2020 in Lebanon, kick-started with ongoing revolutions, an economic crisis, a political collapse, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s unstable economic situation and the steady rise of COVID-19 cases were both major...