Humanitarian and development organisations love to collect and store vast quantities of data but finding what they need is a challenge; is it?
Humanitarian and development organisations love to collect and store vast quantities of data. A colleague of mine, innovation manager at a European NGO, was recently complaining about how difficult and slow it is to search
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As part of its technical assistance program to the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR), the World Bank and Relief Applications partnered up for the definition of a Harmonized Questionnaire for the collection of
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Whether you are a fresh graduate with your diploma or a seasoned professional. It does not matter. Any job seeker in the humanitarian sector finds the same problems searching on job boards all around the
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Data security: no longer optional Humanitarian and development organisations now produce, store, analyse and report on large quantities of data – we do love a questionnaire, don't we! While data safety and security is nothing
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Jobs4Dev is now available! This app provides an intuitive and easy access to thousands of job offers delivered by the most reputed International Organizations, NGOs, UN agencies and foundations as well as the most relevant
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This emerging technology is set to bring multiple benefits for those who adopt it, will humanitarian do? The Internet of Things is a giant network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances and other items
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How development and humanitarian organization should approach cloud services. Back in 2006 I was helping a UN organization develop its contingency planning for the avian flu (H1N1) in Laos. As any Country Office we
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The AI revolution will never happen in the humanitarian sector, it's already here. When I started Relief Applications back in 2013, we were all speaking about Mobile Data Collection. I was deployed during the
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A friend of mine at FAO recently told me that, like Food Security, data can be looked at in 3 dimensions: availability, access and utilization. I found this parallel very thought provoking and to some
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