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One Year Later: ICT Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake
One year after the Haiti earthquake, the disaster response/development community is in a reflective mood. And well we should be: despite a massive cash influx in the wake of the disaster, the ongoing...
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The Enduring Allurement of Technocratic Competence
The history of political thought has been, in a sense, a tussle between two ideas regarding who should govern: the idea that experts should rule and the idea that the people should rule themselves. It...
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#4 from 2014: How User-Generated Crisis Maps Save Lives in Disasters
Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2014. This post was originally posted on February 26, 2014 YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, blogs… This list could easily go on and...
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Thoughts on designing a national social safety net
Social protection programs are essential to creating resilient communities that can withstand crises, but they are also difficult to implement. Improving preparedness is an important task going...
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Humanitarian broadcasting in emergencies
It is several days after the earthquake in Nepal. A small group of Nepali women sit on the side of the road in a village in Dhading district, 26 kilometres from Kathmandu. In this village, many people...
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