Category: #humtech

Everyone Counts Report 2019

by Rania | Sep 30, 2019 | #humtech, data literacy, Gender, Global, Humanitarian, Localisation, open data | 0 |

Has the IFRC achieved gender parity? Which National Society produces the highest quality of data?...

“I see and I remember” – optimising data visualisation to improve humanitarian decision-making

by luke | Sep 26, 2019 | #humtech, data literacy, Events, Humanitarian, Technology | 0 |

Humanitarians are being bombarded with an ever increasing volume of data. Trying to make sense of...

Checkin – How is your organizational Data Literacy journey?

by Heather Leson | Sep 23, 2019 | #humtech, CivicTech, data literacy, open data, open source | 0 |

Is Data Literacy advocacy and implementation part of your role and journey? Are you building...

Convening a Data Literacy Consortium

by Heather Leson | Feb 12, 2019 | #humtech, community, Community Management, data literacy, Events, open data, open source | 0 |

Data literacy is a team sport. How can organizations improve their data readiness? How can we...

Scaling up the approach to humanitarian information analysis for SARC’s IM Department

by Heather Leson | Jan 24, 2019 | #humtech, data literacy | 0 |

What would a data ready National Society look like? How can we be ‘fit for the future?” This...

Community Health Response: from local to global

by Heather Leson | Jan 24, 2019 | #humtech, data literacy, Localisation, mobile, open source | 0 |

For the past year, we’ve been exploring new ways to work while engaging digital and local...

Convening a Data Literacy Consortium

by Heather Leson | Jan 16, 2019 | #humtech, CivicTech, community, Community Management, data literacy, Events, open source | 0 |

What if Humanitarians collaborated on data literacy and data skills? Data is everywhere and part...

Co-Creating IFRC’s Data Playbook, Online Discussion Notes

by Heather Leson | Jan 8, 2019 | #humtech, data literacy, Localisation, open source | 0 |

[Editor note: Guest post from Dirk Slater of Fabriders. Cross-posted with permission] FabRiders’...

Deeper and Deeper! Innovating at The PORT Hackathon at CERN

by Heather Leson | Dec 17, 2018 | #humtech, CivicTech, data literacy, Events, open source, Technology | 0 |

Jointly tackling the challenge of unstructured data to improve humanitarian response October 2018...

Know Your Data, Be a Champion

by Heather Leson | Mar 21, 2018 | #humtech, Blog, Community Management, data literacy, Events, Localisation, open data | 0 |

Data Literacy activities build a common language and connect data leaders with data curious while...

How to do Community-Based Epidemiological Surveillance, using WhatsApp and My Maps

by Heather Leson | Feb 28, 2018 | #humtech, data literacy | 0 |

[Guest Post: Fanor Camacho, Information Management Delegate, IFRC Americas] Among the tools used...

Data Socialization – Fostering a Data Culture

by Heather Leson | Feb 1, 2018 | #humtech, Community Management, data literacy, Internet, Localisation, Mappers, open data, open source, Technology | 0 |

What does it take to be a Data Ready organization? All around the world organizations are either prepared or preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Now, consider this: What will it take to be a Data Ready Humanitarian...

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