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An Overview of Emergency Communication Networks
Remote Sensing, volume 15, issue 1595 (2023), 36 pp.
"In recent years, major natural disasters and public safety accidents have frequently occurred worldwide. In order to deal with various disasters and accidents using rapidly deployable, reliable, efficient, and stable emergency communication networks, all countries in the world are strengthening and
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World Risk Report 2022. Focus: Digitalization
Berlin; Bochum: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft; Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (2022), 63 pp.
"Digitalization has significantly changed disaster preparedness and management. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are used in all phases of disaster management for knowledge acquisition, information dissemination, communication, as well as control. Examples include the use of global d
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Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
Deep Insights
Milton: Routledge (2022), 486 pp.
"Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopoli
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"Wie jedes Jahr wird der WeltRisikoIndex durch ein Fokusthema ergänzt. Dieses Jahr beschäftigen wir uns mit der Digitalisierung. Die Autor:innen analysieren auf der Basis qualitativer Forschung die große Bedeutung digitaler Lösungen für die Katastrophenrisikoreduzierung und die vorausschauende
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"The potential benefits of increased digitalisation to refugees, living in situations where access to information and spaces for communication exchange are of the essence, are yet to be realised. Uganda’s forced migrants, both those in refugee settlements and those self-settled in urban areas, hav
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Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian Emergencies
Deep Insights
Farnham, Surrey (UK): Caribou Space; UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (2022), 97 pp.
"Satellite applications are being developed by an increasingly complex web of supplyside stakeholders and are being applied across a range of use cases in the life cycle of a humanitarian emergency. However, there is a limited body of evidence to offer humanitarians guidance on where satellite techn
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"The testimonies of caminantes [migrants and refugees travelling primarily by foot] interviewed for this study highlight the significant limitations of social media as a tool for inclusion among populations on the move in Venezuela and Colombia. It is important to note that caminantes are an acutely
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Digital Technologies and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2022), 29 pp.
"This paper brings together the key findings of research into digital humanitarian action and inclusion, asking what the impact of new digital approaches has been on how inclusion is understood and operationalised in humanitarian action. The Humanitarian Policy Group undertook three thematic case st
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Typhoon Rai Response: The Role of the Mobile Industry
GSMA (2022), 8 pp.
"Typhoon Rai has proven to be one of the most damaging disasters to have hit the Philippines. However, around 400 lives were lost due to Typhoon Rai compared to disasters like Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, when 6,300 people died. The significantly lower number of deaths highlights the country’s experien
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Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response
London: ODI; Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) (2022), 55 pp.
"This study forms part of the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG)’s wider research on humanitarian ‘digital divides’. Drawing on existing literature, interviews with humanitarian practitioners and research with people affected by crisis in Venezuela and Uganda, it explores how the presence of soci
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The Digitalisation of Armed Conflicts: Three Humanitarian Priorities
Brussels: Brussels School of Governance, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (2022), 5 pp.
"States should interpret – and apply – existing rules in a manner that ensures adequate and sufficient protection for civilians and civilian infrastructure, information and communication technology (ICT) systems and data in our ever-increasingly digitalised societies. Academia, tech companies, s
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Loss of Tonga’s Telecommunication: What Happened, What Were the Consequences and How Were They Managed?
Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (2022), 4 pp.
"In January 2022 the subsea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga had a major eruption which also cut the country’s communication lines nationally, between Tonga’s inhabited islands and the outside world. The damage led to a complete halt in international communication (a “digital darkn
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Digital Development: Stories of Hope from Health and Social Development
Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2022), xii, 164 pp.
"This book explores case studies across India, Kenya, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, and global, comparative settings, and asks what positive impact ICT applications (Health Information Systems, Pandemic response systems, Early Warning and Response Systems, Hospital Information System and Smartphone based Ap
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Refugees in the Digital Economy: The Future of Work Among the Forcibly Displaced
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 1-12
"The current scale and duration of displacement prompts renewed urgency about livelihoods prospects for displaced people and the role of humanitarian organisations in fostering them. This special issue focuses on how aid organisations, together with the private sector and other actors, have worked t
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Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund: Portfolio (2017-2022)
London: GSMA (2021), 28 pp.
Humanitarian Connectivity Needs and Usage Assessment: Guidance for Implementing the Toolkit
London: GSMA (2021), 39 pp.
Utilizing telecommunications / information and communication technologies for disaster risk reduction and management. Study period 2018-2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), xii, 162 pp.
[...] Early-warning systems play a crucial role in informing people about impending disasters and should therefore be deployed in disaster-prone areas. Effective information transmission and dissemination are important before, during and after a disaster. A workshop on early-warning systems held dur
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Building and Strengthening Digital Ecosystems in Humanitarian Contexts
London: GSMA (2021), 24 pp.
