Webinars and e-Learning for Innovation and Humanitarian Action

In response to a comment on this site, below is a list of relevant online resources for lesson-learning and skill-building. While these platforms and videos offer valuable insights, there is a shortfall of materials that relate directly to humanitarian action and innovation. How can this gap be filled in the future?

Websites

• TechChange offers certified online courses around topics related to technology and social change. Pracitioners can enroll from anywhere in the world, connect to other students and instructors via a faciliated learning platform.
• OpenIDEO is an open innovation platform where people from all over the world can connect to work on social challenges together.

Webinars

• Transformation through innovation: Successful scale-up models: the WHS consulations on October 17, 2014 in Eastern and Souther Africa include a discussion that can be viewed via Adobe Connect.
• Humanitarians in the Skye: How UAVs are changing disaster response: a one hour Engineering for Change (E4C) webinar with Patrick Meier.
• Technological innovation and principles in humanitarian action: a 120 minute panel discussion hosted by ICRC from June 24, 2014. The video can be downloaded as an MP3.
• Innovation in the Humanitarian Sector: a one hour webinar by DisasterReady.org in which Chirs Earney and Joel Nielsen (UNHCR) explore innovative approaches to address humanitarian challenges.

Others

• Though not focusing on humanitarian action, the Stanford Social Innovation Review offers a number of resources that provide ideas and insights.
• In the Social Innovation Conversations innovators from different fields offer advice and insights in short audio recordings.

What other resources and e-learning sites do you use or know of?