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 8 - 12 of 12 tools and best practices relevant to humanitarian response.
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New Zealand uses seismic sensors able to characterise potential tsunami-generating earthquakes occurring off the country's coast.
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Safety Check is a feature of Facebook that is meant to help users quickly alert friends and family that they are safe during times of crisis.
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Sahana is a free, open-source modular software platform for disaster management and humanitarian assistance.
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IDRN is a web-based platform for managing inventories of equipment, human resources and critical supplies for emergency response.
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AIDR is free and open source software that automatically collects and classifies tweets that are posted during humanitarian crises.