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    Disaster response and humanitarian tech

    There's a long tradition of volunteer technologists rallying to aid communities in the aftermath of a disaster or humanitarian crisis. Many of the problems and solutions, such as managing skilled volunteers remotely, apply to other domains in the Civic Tech Field Guide. See also: Participatory Aid.

    Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid

    The prize will be allocated in separate awards of €1 million each in 5 distinct thematic areas: shelter and related assistance, water, sanitation and hygiene, energy, health and medical care, other forms of humanitarian aid (open category).

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    cat-icon European Commission, Rue Philippe Le Bon, Brussels, Belgium

    Agency

    At Agency, we ally with civil society organizations in Africa and Latin America, along with their partners and networks, to advance the resilience and future preparedness of the ecosystem.

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    Airbnb Open Homes

    A pilot project to help provide a quick housing response during an emergency

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    Alerta de enchentes

    The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.

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    Amnesty Decoders

    Join a global network of digital volunteers helping us research and expose human rights violations.

    BetaNYC Crowdsourcing food and services data

    BetaNYC project

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    Blockchange

    An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

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    Bots for Charity

    Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

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    cat-icon Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA

    CanDo

    Everyone a humanitarian

    Code & Response (film)

    A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

    Code and Response challenge

    IBM-sponsored challenge for creating and deploying open source technologies to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges

    Code for Australia Foresight

    Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.

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    Disaster Relief by Amazon

    "A five-member team of Amazon product and program managers connecting with nonprofits worldwide and are ready to respond to requests for resources during a disaster." - GovTech

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    EnPremiereLigne.fr

    Fostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19

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    Google Person Finder

    Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

    Humanitarian Data Exchange

    Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

    Humanitarian Innovation Dashboard

    The Humanitarian Information Dashboard (HID) tracks and analyzes community views and humanitarian related data during emergencies.

    Humanitarian Knowledge Base

    Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

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    Ignis

    The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

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    cat-icon Lincoln, NE, USA

    Irma Response Network

    An online forum for community discussion