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Early Warning: Disasters
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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Refugees / Displaced People
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Radio in Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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NGOs & Civil Society Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Interactive Radio: Audience Participation, Interaction & Feedback
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Community Radios
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Conflicts and Media
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Human Rights Protection & Violations: Media Representation & Reporting
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Countering Misinformation & Rumours
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Disasters, Disaster Relief, Disaster Prevention
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Digital Communication
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Internet Shutdowns
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Chatbots
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Social Media & Web 2.0 for Development
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Websites
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AI in Development Assistance
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Digitalization, Environment & Sustainable Development
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ICTs and Development
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ICT Development Assistance
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ICT Regulation
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Emergency Health Communication
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Humanitarian Aid
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Data Bases, Digital Libraries, Open Access Repositories
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Mobile Money Cash Transfer Programmes
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Child Health, Mother & Child Care Communication
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COVID-19 Communication
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Media Assistance: Good Practice Examples
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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Design Thinking
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Forced Migration, Forced Displacement
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People with Disabilities: Tailored ICT & Media Products
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Fragile / Post-Conflict States
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Local Ownership, Local Stakeholder Participation
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Human Security
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Rohingya
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Demography & Demographic Development
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Resilience
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Inequalities
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Blockchain Technologies
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Software
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Mobile Phone Apps
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SMS
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Suburbs, Poor Districts, Slums, Shanty Towns
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Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 14 pp.
"Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanit
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Case Study: Talk to Loop
GSMA (2024), 6 pp.
Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective
Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 14 pp.
Telecommunication networks and infrastructure resilience assessment in Haiti
Geneva: ITU (2024), xii, 96 pp.
[.] the report examines three pivotal areas of assessment. First, there was an evaluation of the damage to Haiti’s networks and infrastructure after the 2021 earthquake, along with the restoration of telecommunication services. Second, the assessment focused on Haiti’s country-level resilience,
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Spreading Like Wildfire: The Securitization of the Amazon Rainforest Fires on Twitter
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 91-111
"As a tool of political communication and information diffusion, social media has transformed the process of securitization, allowing (in)security messages to spread and scale up rapidly. Focusing on the case of the Amazon rainforest fires in 2019, this article seeks to answer two questions: How doe
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OCHA and Meta: Partnering to give humanitarians open access to population data
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2024), 10 pp.
AI and natural disaster analysis: Needs analysis during disaster using Artificial Intelligence by Citibeats, February 2018 - September 2021
Citibeats;UNESCO (2024), 21 pp.
"The main conclusions drawn from the analysis of online opinions during natural disasters in Africa are highlighted below:
Climate change is one of the main concerns of the African population in recent years. This climate problem is considered to be causing more and greater natural disasters on the
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Mapping humanitarian tech: Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes
Access Now (2024), 69 pp.
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid
Geopolitics (2024), 28 pp.
"When aid professionals adopt high tech pilot projects, ignorance, blind faith, misplaced trust, and authentic expertise all come into play. Based on ethnographic research in Jordan, I examine how a refugee aid organisation produces and applies a blockchain pilot. Innovative pilots help internationa
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OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2024), 46 pp.
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024: Marking Ten Years of the Humanitarian Data Exchange
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2024), 33 pp.
Global Innovation in Emergency Telecommunications: Strengthening Disaster Response in the Philippines
World Food Programme (WFP) (2023), 6 pp.
Chatbots in Humanitarian Contexts: Learning from Practitioner Experiences
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC);The Engine Room (2023), 31 pp.
"Since the mid-2010s, chatbots have grown in usage and popularity across the humanitarian sector. While this usage has gained traction, there is scarce information on the collective successes, risks, and trade-offs of this automation. This research addresses this gap, documenting chatbot deployments
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Leveraging Social Media and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Risk Management Processes in Europe
LINKS: Strengthening Links between Technologies and Society for European Disaster Resilience (2023), 49 pp.
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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Digital transformation and early warning systems for saving lives: Background paper
Geneva: ITU (2023), iv, 36 pp.
"The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of early warning dissemination and communication, one of the four pillars of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS), which ITU is leading with the newly defined executive action plan for the Early Warnings for All initiative. The key ob
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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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WeltRisikoBericht 2022. Fokus: Digitalisierung
Bochum: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft;Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht (IFHV) (2022), 75 pp.
"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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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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