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  1. Join the #VisualizeChange challenge

    The WHS is sponsoring a data visualization challenge: "Thousands of people worldwide have shared their ideas to reduce human loss and suffering from crisis. Can you help visualize these ideas?" For more information: https://unite.un.org/ideas/content/visualizechange Winners will be invted to...
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    Last week our hundreth member joined innov-aid - welcome Erini, nice to see you back in this space from a new perspective. This reminded me of the power of network and how each of us brings along our expertise and perspectives on humanitarian innovation. It's now almost a year since we quietly...
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  4. Innovation for crisis management: sharing ideas on shared ideas?

    A two-day international workshop on Innovation for Crisis Management (#I4CM for tweetofiles) organised by the DRIVER Demonstration Project was held in Marseille, France, on 26-27 May. I had the pleasure to participate. The workshop brought together a wide range of stakeholders including...
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  5. 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...
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  6. Nuturing a community on innovation: networking our networks

    Thanks to an inspiring group of thinkers with us today at ECHO helping to shape this 'innov-aid' space and work out how it fits with a wider emerging community on innovation in humanitarian aid. The complexity of overlapping networks and how we can ensure networking of the networks, ensuring...
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  7. INFORM yourself about Risk!

    While the big discussions are currently taking place in Sendai at the UN Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction , here is an innovative example of how we can reach an improved common understanding on where the risk to humanitarian crisis and disaster is globally. My question to you is:...
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  9. If we only knew what we know...

    Innovation in Humanitarian Expert Deployment, Networking and Peer Knowledge Sharing Inspired by the newly launched EUAV programme, I would like to contribute to the Innovation in Aid discussion by sharing an example of our approach to innovation at the Norwegian Refugee Council’s ( NRC ) Expert...
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  10. What's APP?

    I was struck by a comment from an NGO operational frontline colleague last week that almost every month someone was coming to them with a proposal for a new mobile app to assist in their humanitarian work, but that they had no way to judge theIr potential or compartative usefulness. Equally I was...
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