E-Resilience: Humanitarian Response
Humanitarian response is intended to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity during and after disasters. ICT plays a critical role in a multitude of humanitarian response activities. The E-Resilience Toolkit offers insights into a spectrum of available ICT tools and best practices that may benefit policymakers, DRM professionals and vulnerable communities in Asia and the Pacific to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of humanitarian response.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 12 tools and best practices relevant to humanitarian response.
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ReliefWeb is a web-based humanitarian information source on global crises and disasters, containing data, maps, reports, multimedia and training tools.
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DEWN is an emergency message system in Sri Lanka to send mass alerts as well as specific warnings to people in various regions.
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An online resource to help mobile network operators join forces with NGOs rapidly and effectively in times of disasters.
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The portable backpack-type mobile base station can be applied in disaster situations when communications networks are unavailable.
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Google Person Finder is a web application that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster.
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The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a space-based satellite system that can assist disaster rescue operations.
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The ETC is a global network of organizations that work together to provide shared communications services in humanitarian emergencies.