Open Data and Impact Measures
It is always educational and thought provoking to read Bill Gates annual letters. This year’s letterfocused on the importance of measuring the impact of the work we are doing to make the world a better place.
Writing
Essays on leadership, resilience, and artificial intelligence
Every essay since 2010, newest first.
Facing the Fear of Thinking Big
Written by Gisli Olafsson on behalf of the Case Foundation: NetHope collaborates with 35 leading international humanitarian organizations to better serve the developing world through innovative technology and communications. Their focus is on five...
Observation from the path of Typhoon Bopha
The term “path of a hurricane” is something you often hear in the news, but actually seeing the devastation that these strong winds and heavy rains cause is something you don’t realize until you have visited an area where one has gone through. When that...
The Sandy Legacy
Less than a week has passed since Hurricane Sandy passed over the Caribbean and the US East Coast, leaving a trail of destruction and death behind. Only seven years have passed since Hurricane Katrina, one of the costliest disasters of all times left a...
Introducing the Humanitarian Toolbox
Today we at NetHope, CrisisCommons and GeeksWithoutBounds are proud to announce, in partnership with Microsoft and DotNetRocks the launch of the Humanitarian Toolbox. The Humanitarian Toolbox is an initiative intended to help bring the expertise and good...
The Need for Increased Collaboration
The world we live in is certainly not a perfect place. There are a number of things that need to be done to improve it.
Humanitarian Response in times of Mass Collaboration and Networked Intelligence
This blog post originally appeared as a Vision for the Future position paper for the Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management policy roundtable organized by the Woodrow Wilson Center Commons Lab. ABSTRACT The current humanitarian...
Leaving a legacy
“There comes a time in your life when your focus shifts from success to significance”– Edward G. Happ (Chairman NetHope, CIO IFRC) Throughout my close to twenty years of volunteering and working for non-profit organizations, I have had the honor of leading...
Community Based Humanitarian Response
In my last blog post I discussed the importance of getting the disaster affected community involved the humanitarian response. I wanted to follow up on that discussion with a more detailed post that would discuss the different levels of Community Based...
In memoriam – World Humanitarian Day 2012
Today, August 19th, is World Humanitarian Day. On this day we remember humanitarian workers who have died while helping others in need.