Connectivity, data, and digital tools in disaster response, from Haiti and Ebola to the infrastructure the humanitarian system still lacks.
NetHope Situation Report 1 — 2013-11-08 Situation Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda), one of the strongest typhoons this year, continues to maintain strength as it passes over the Philippines. It made initial landfall just before 5 a.m.
Applying the principles of Lean Methodology to Humanitarian Response The whole humanitarian response system is undergoing a radical shift. We are moving from a top-down model to a bottoms-up survivor-centric model.
One of the critical issues we often face after a disaster is that the communication infrastructure has been affected. Even when cell towers are still standing, the power infrastructure is severely damaged and often it takes days or weeks to restore these...
For the past year, we have been advocating for bringing the concepts of open data into the humanitarian space. We have written a number of blog posts, we have spoken at conferences, and we have traveled the world and met with humanitarian organizations,...
This post was originally published on Markets for Good, an initiative to discover how the social sector can better use and share information to improve outcomes and change lives. Gisli Olafsson is the Emergency Response Director at NetHope, which is...
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.
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...
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...
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 world we live in is certainly not a perfect place. There are a number of things that need to be done to improve it.