Julie Gassien bats at an incessant onslaught of gnats attacking the moisture in her eyes. All around her is the green fernery of the Angolan bush, the sounds of burbling water soothing from the forested background. She stands on an intricately balanced web of...
The need for building better data and monitoring mechanisms in humanitarian action. A challenge that education staff have always grappled with is getting real-time data collected (efficiently) from the field to inform the direction of programming. This is a challenge...
Today, science shows us how stress and trauma impact our physical bodies and even genetics. But there is a layer that science still needs to penetrate when it comes to understanding how narrative therapy and storytelling can support a person’s mental health and inner...
In mid-2016, we set out to create a funding mechanism in UNHCR that would encourage innovation across our 130 operations worldwide. With displacement becoming increasingly complex and causing untold suffering, we were moved by a sense of urgency to support our...
Communicating with communities. Data. Information Management. Accountability to affected populations. To me, saying these terms in a row highlights how disassociated these different terms are for many, and how acutely humanitarian-centric, i.e. jargonistic they sound....
A robot? Not exactly. Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two buzzwords, particularly when talking about the realm of data innovation. Artificial Intelligence is the ability that machines have to mimic the cognitive processes of humans. The word...
