02 Mar 2016
The briefing paper examines the adoption of the First Aid App by Red Cross National Societies under the Universal App Program. Specifically, it provides an outline of the program and the experiences of some of the National Societies in adopting ...
Tags: Research, Mobile Technology
12 Aug 2015
The Missing Maps project aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20 million vulnerable, at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in these “missing maps” before the next disaster strikes ensuring ...
Tags: Case Study, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing
12 Feb 2014
Given the size of the urban poor population, a major challenge confronting development agencies, policymakers and social actors concerned with addressing poverty is how to provide better access to secure tenure and housing. tools and strategies t...
Tags: Guidance material, Urban Risk Reduction