New Technologies in Humanitarian Aid

I can’t see, so when my radio was destroyed in the cyclone, I felt very isolated. Now that I have a radio, I feel like I can see!

A blind Monk in Burma who received a radio after cyclone Nargis

Poor information flow is undoubtedly the biggest source of dissatisfaction, anger and frustration among affected people

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If we understand what is going on, we can be patient

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I would say that registration [of those in camps] would have been almost impossible without the support of the communications teams

CCCM Cluster Coordinator Haiti

“A community without a radio is worth nothing,”....“People have already realized here that without radio the region is dead"

Internews Humanitarian Information Service in Eastern Chad

Rahma Mohamed Ibed

“What they desperately needed was access to local information in a language they understood – could they go home? Where were the local services and who were all these foreigners who said they were coming to help?”

Mark Frohardt, at the time Internews’ Vice President for Africa

“We were trying to be a community safety valve – to sit the two groups down together and find out how they felt about the problems. If we couldn’t get them into the studio we would send the reporters out to the camps.”

Radio Absoun, Chad

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ODI London and Live Stream

Date:

2012-03-29 13:00 - 16:00

This event will bring together a range of expertise to discuss the increasing range of technology platforms available to humanitarians for the distribution of assistance, and particularly how they relate to case transfers.

New research by CaLP will be presented which discusses three technologies currently being used in aid programming: electronic payment systems, the use of mobile phones for text and voice communication, and digital data gathering tools. For each, the research outlines current use, examines benefits experienced and issues faced by the recipient and the agency and highlights key lessons learned.

This will be followed by a panel discussion comprised of donor, private sector and NGO representation, and a marketplace led by Last Mile Mobile Solutions, where various technology providers will be present to demonstrate some of the ways technologies are being used in humanitarian aid.
Speaker:
Gabrielle Smith - Social Protection & Safety Nets Adviser, Concern

Discussants:
Tim Waits - Disaster Risk Reduction Adviser, DFID
Laura Walker Hudson - Director of Operations, FrontlineSMS
Jay Narhan - Programme Manager, World Vision LMMS
Andrea Sulzenbacher - Delivery Manager, Accenture

Gregory Rebattu - Delegate for Asia-Pacific, Telecoms Sans Frontieres

Chair:
Paul Knox Clarke - Head of Research and Development, ALNAP

An ODI and Cash Learning Partnership public event.

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