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  1. #talkinnovation @WHSummit Regional Consultation

    The WHS Regional Consultation 'Europe and Others' in Budapest is under way! You can follow the consultation via webstream as well as on twitter @WHSummit and @eu_echo sharing thoughts to #ReShapeAid . Innovation in humanitarian aid is 1 of 4 challenges addressed. Let's contribute to this momentum...
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  2. What does it take to innovate in UNICEF?

    What does it take to innovate in UNICEF? A bunch of people with different backgrounds gathered to openly share needs and ideas on how to solve them. UNICEF HQ, in collaboration with ThoughtWorks, hosted a four day workshop to identify and prototype ideas that will improve its efficiency following a...
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  3. Global Partnership for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation

    Dear colleagues, Thank you for the useful list of links, resources and initiatives on humanitarian innovation. If I may add to it, there is also the Global Partnership for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation (GPHI2) , which was lauched just a couple of months ago with the aim of bringing together...
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  4. Humanitarians in the sky?

    Hello, I recently read a very interesting article about using UAVs (unmanner aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones) for disaster response. I am reposting a link to it here . It argues that while satellite imagery has played an important role in relief operations for more than 15 years, it has a number of...
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  6. Innovation, experimentation ... and the right to be wrong!

    At the ECHO partners’ conference last week, the question was raised if the right to make mistakes is a condition for innovation. Some suggested that ECHO should develop a webpage with the top 10 failures from which humanitarian workers learned the most. Indeed, every innovation turned out to have...
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  7. Dreaming spires and inspiring dreams

    Oxford, Humanitarian Innovation Conference - July 2014. In the oh-so-traditional surrounds of Keeble college , over a hundred individuals gathered for two days to share their projects and stories about applying innovation to humanitarian action. The academic world, met UN, NGO and other '...
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