Beyond messaging and debunking: information integrity starts with local journalism
Harmful information in crisis contexts causes an 'epistemic rupture'—a breakdown in shared facts and understanding. We need to strengthen local journalism, build community trust, and prioritise prevention over reactive debunking, says Fondation Hirondelle’s Sacha Meuter and Jackie Dalton. Ahead of this year’s CDAC Network Public Forum on 10 December 2025, we’ll be hearing from voices on what they want to talk about at the event.
The common threat, the common good: why journalists and humanitarians need to work more together
Transparency and Accountability cannot be achieved alone. Humanitarians and journalists need each other, says Stijn Aelbers. Ahead of this year’s CDAC Network Public Forum on 10 December 2025, we’ll be hearing from voices on what they want to talk about at the event.
CDAC Network’s 2025 Public Forum & AGA– Information in Crisis
This year’s CDAC Network Public Forum and AGA is coming to Bonn, Germany, on 10-12 December 2025! Held in partnership with the German Forum on Media Development (FOME) – hosted by DW Akademie and Fondation Hirondelle. Register now for tickets!
Join CDAC Network and MERL Tech Initiative: accountability and AI in humanitarian action
Join us for this special CDAC Network Community of Practice on AI, co-hosted with the MERL Tech Initiative, on 6 August 2025. We will focus on how we ensure accountability is built into the growth of AI in the humanitarian sector.
CDAC welcomes six new board members for 2025!
Meet CDAC Network’s six newest board members!
Catch up with CDAC Network at Humanitarian Networks & Partnerships Week 2025
Catch up with all CDAC Network’s panel events at Humanitarian Network and Partnerships 2025.
March 2025 Thailand/Myanmar earthquake portal - key messages and resources
Key messages and resources for the humanitarian response to the Myanmar-Thailand March 2025 earthquake.
CDAC Network launches SAFE AI project to establish responsible AI framework for humanitarians
The SAFE AI project focuses on creating clear governance guidelines, building tools to verify AI trustworthiness, ensuring affected communities have a meaningful voice, and working directly with humanitarian organisations to build solutions that address their actual needs.
CDAC Network at Humanitarian Networks & Partnerships Week 2025
Join CDAC Network at Humanitarian Network and Partnerships between 24-28 March 2025.
Shift the power in humanitarian data: support the Data Values Advocates Program
The Data Values Advocates Program equips people, especially young people and those from underrepresented communities, with the skills and resources to advocate for equitable, community-centred data systems. Learn how you can get involved!
Join CDAC Network at the 2024 Public Forum – Data, power and participation: towards the ethical adoption of tech
This year’s Public Forum will ask: what could accountable AI design and governance look like? Who controls the data shaping humanitarian action? Whose ethics should guide the take-up of tech in conflicts and crises? What information and tools do crisis-affected communities need to play a central role in decision-making?
Why community engagement is the smart strategy for AI in humanitarian response
Watch the World Summit AI 2024 panel where CDAC’s Executive Director, Helen McElhinney, made the case for deeper community participation in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in humanitarian settings.
New online course – Community crisis intelligence: elevating community voices with AI
CDAC Network is excited to announce the launch of a new online training course, designed to equip humanitarian professionals with the skills to harness the power of community intelligence and AI to deliver faster, better and more localised humanitarian responses.
What’s AI doing to information airways in conflict and crises?
Generative artificial intelligence is a new dimension to the old problem of disinformation. It has made the issue much more complicated, particularly for people affected by conflict and crises. How should humanitarians respond?
Is truth the first casualty? The role of communication in crisis and humanitarian action
Video and key takeaways from CDAC Network’s panel at Humanitarian Xchange 2024, featuring Ahmed Al Khameri (Chemonics), Annie Slemrod (The New Humanitarian), Meg Sattler (Ground Truth Solutions) and Stijn Aelbers (Internews).
Why we urgently need a humanitarian manifesto for AI
As part of The Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK Fringe in March 2024, CDAC Network hosted an event at London’s Frontline Club to ask: ‘Do we need a humanitarian manifesto for AI?’ Catch up on the videos and key takeaways here, including a keynote from Dr Abeba Birhane.
Do we need a humanitarian manifesto for AI? Join CDAC Network at the Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK Fringe
Register to join CDAC Network at the Alan Turing Institute's AI UK Fringe to discuss whether a humanitarian manifesto for artificial intelligence is needed, and how it could be informd by conflict- and crisis-affected communities.
In the age of AI, how do we scale digital opportunities and secure safer information landscapes for people caught in conflict?
Seismic shifts in the digital landscape are reshaping the experience of communication in conflict across the world. What can build resilience to emerging threats to media freedom and trusted communication in conflict? And how can humanitarian principles inform sector take-up of emerging technologies such as AI?
The next level in community-led engagement and accountability: integrating a participatory mixed-methods approach
Photo story: how participatory video methods can be used to centre communities’ voices, perspectives and expertise at every stage of humanitarian programming and response.
Who shapes global narratives in today’s AI-enabled world – and what do conflict-affected communities and humanitarians need to know?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a critical factor in global governance, international relations and the information environment, and it is crucial that humanitarians understand its implications in conflict contexts. Listen to our Public Forum panel with Amil Khan, Jonathan Tanner and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.