The WHS Regional Consultation 'Europe and Others' in Budapest is under way! You can follow the consultation via webstream as well as on twitter @WHSummit and @eu_echo sharing thoughts to #ReShapeAid. Innovation in humanitarian aid...
What does it take to innovate in UNICEF? A bunch of people with different backgrounds gathered to openly share needs and ideas on how to solve them. UNICEF HQ, in collaboration with ThoughtWorks, hosted a four day workshop to...
Dear colleagues, Thank you for the useful list of links, resources and initiatives on humanitarian innovation. If I may add to it, there is also the Global Partnership for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation (GPHI2), which was...
Hello, I recently read a very interesting article about using UAVs (unmanner aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones) for disaster response. I am reposting a link to it here. It argues that while satellite imagery has played an important...
Founded in 2008 and relocated in 2013 to 5000 m² in the heart of Brussels, the Espace Bruno Corbé Training and Innovation Centre run by Médecins sans Frontières is as close as you get to field conditions without actually going to...
At the ECHO partners’ conference last week, the question was raised if the right to make mistakes is a condition for innovation. Some suggested that ECHO should develop a webpage with the top 10 failures from which humanitarian...
Oxford, Humanitarian Innovation Conference - July 2014. In the oh-so-traditional surrounds of Keeble college, over a hundred individuals gathered for two days to share their projects and stories about applying innovation to...