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Empowering Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers through digital data management

1 January 1970
Sergio Membrillas

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Komunidad, the Early Warning software that anticipates climate risks

Komunidad is a climate data and analytics software company providing digital transformation and decision support tools for climate resilience and sustainability.
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

IMPULSA, promoting self-employment for people in need

IMPULSA is a project carried out by the Spanish Red Cross that helps boosting and scaling self-employment projects of people in vulnerable situations since 2007.
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Process
Data Tools / Analytics
GIS / Mapping
Values, Power and Inclusion

How the Iraqi Red Crescent involved the community and its volunteers in the strategic planning

Community participation is targeted by the Iraqi Red Crescent’s (IRC) activities in its annual planning process. With the goal to better understand the needs of [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Disasters and Crisis

How the Mexican Red Cross created a system for collecting data during emergencies

The emergency control system is cloud-based and allows the operation control of ambulances and rescue vehicles of the Mexican Red Cross. It includes management algorithms, [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Comunitaria, promoting circular economy in marginalised neighbourhoods via Blockchain

Comunitaria is an app available on both Android and Apple devices that allows, through blockchain technology, to make donations so that people residing in marginalised [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Cartiera, ethical fashion supporting professional inclusion and economic growth

Cartiera is an ethical fashion laboratory created in 2017. It produces leather and fabric accessories according to Made in Italy craftsmanship techniques, recovering high-quality raw [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Artificial Intelligence
Disasters and Crisis

How to provide mobile real time monitoring on tsunami evacuation

In November 2022, the Humanitarian Technology Unit of the Japanese Red Cross and Disaster Management Institute, jointly conducted Japan's first demonstration experiment on Real-time monitoring [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Bricoboutique: DIY homemaking made sustainable and affordable

Bricoboutique is a new concept of solidarity boutique dedicated to DIY products. Open to all, the shop offers second-hand tools and materials, most of them [...]
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Immersive Tech / VR / AR
Health and Wellbeing

The VR app that trains lifeguards to save drowning victims

Lifeguard VR is a virtual reality app developed for the Meta Quest 2 VR headset.  This training simulation will help lifeguards save lives by reinforcing [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Échale, the Mexican social enterprise facilitating access to housing

Échale is a Mexican social company that provides solutions regarding adequate housing and local infrastructure for communities that lack access to financial opportunities. Its goal [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

How the Thai Red Cross is operating the second snake farm in the world

Snake Farm, Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (QSMI), Thai Red Cross Society is the second snake farm in the world and the first snake farm in [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

How the Burundi Red Cross is building the capacity of its volunteers

In 2007, the Burundi Red Cross created decentralized support groups called 'Unités Collinaires'. Each 'Unité Collinaire' is made up of volunteers who have gradually come [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Chatbot / Conversational Interface
Health and Wellbeing

Bonjour Henry, the first voice assistant dedicated to the elderly

Bonjour Henry is the first voice assistant dedicated specifically to the elderly who are losing their independence. The solution was designed and developed in Montpellier, [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Humanitas Deventer, promoting intergenerational housing

Humanitas Deventer is an independent residential care center in Deventer offering a homely and safe environment  for seniors, needing support for housing and care. The [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Safe Delivery App, up-to-date clinical guidelines to provide safer births everywhere

The Safe Delivery App is a smartphone application developed by Maternity Foundation, that offers skilled birth attendants with instant access to evidence-based and up-to-date clinical [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

« Fit for 100 », an exercise-based support programme for older people

« fit for 100 » is an exercise-based support programme for older people to help them maintain and increase strength while participating in fall prevention. Through [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Chatbot / Conversational Interface
Migration and Displacement

mbeon, a chat counselling via app for adult migrants in Germany

Since 2019, in addition to face-to-face counselling, the German Red Cross, in cooperation with other partners, has been offering a nationwide network of counsellors who [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

The Irish Dementia Cafe, a welcoming meeting for anyone who is affected by dementia

The Irish Dementia Cafe Network is a network of dementia cafes around Ireland each of which is run according to a set of shared principles [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

ShareAmi, the digital friendship to learn french

ShareAmi connects French seniors with young learners to form conversational duos via video-conference.
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Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

How the Burundi Red Cross built a community of 600,000 volunteers

In 2007, the Burundi Red Cross created decentralized support groups called 'Unités Collinaires'. Each 'Unité Collinaire' is made up of volunteers who have gradually come [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Emergency, the children’s surgical hospital in Uganda

Emergency aims to bring healthcare of excellence in Uganda and in the whole Africa, thereby putting into practice the right of every human being to [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Mein Blut: a mobile app that digitalises blood donation

Mein Blut (engl. “My Blood”) is the blood donation app developed by the Austrian Red Cross, currently being rolled out in different regions after a [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

The warm visits, feeling supported in everyday life 

Helping older people to live in quality at home for as long as possible - by safeguarding their independence, encouraging greater self-care and helping them [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Cycling without age, sport and fun on wheels

Cycling without Age's mission is to create a world in which the access to active citizenship creates happiness among our fellow citizens, regardless of age [...]
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Hardware / Physical Device
Health and Wellbeing

Trésdesis, how to build affordable 3D printed arms

Ayúdame 3D is a Spanish organisation that, thanks to 3D printing technology, helps vulnerable groups around the world.
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Application / Digital Platform
GIS / Mapping
Health and Wellbeing

Solinum, how digital tools can support social aid

Solinum is an association whose mission is to provide tools to solidarity actors. It offers a digital guide referencing social assistance places and services for [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Ecomobility: the Turkish Red Crescent starts using shared bikes

Shared Bike for Sustainable Transportation” project has the goal to create a first of its kind pilot free public transportation system within the city center [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Migration and Displacement

Breadwinners, supporting refugees and asylum seekers through selling artisan bread

In UK, Breadwinners has developed 3 programmes supporting refugees with work experience, training and mentoring, through selling artisan baked goods.
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Mindset
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

GLOW red, the global network for women leaders in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

The 100 Voices platform is an initiative highlighting and celebrating the efforts and contributions of women to the successes and progress of the Red Cross [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

IPSO Santé, strengthening the patient-doctor relationship

IPSO Santé puts the doctor-patient relationship at the heart of the health system.
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Serbian Red Cross phone circles to combat loneliness of older people during the pandemic 

Transformation of offline support groups into telephone based support and intervention groups for older persons during COVID-19 lockdown period.
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Hardware / Physical Device
Health and Wellbeing

Rigloo Rescuer, an inflatable shelter for pre-hospital emergency care

Rigloo Rescuer creates a safe environment for victims requiring pre-hospital emergency care, with the ability to deploy in less than a minute.
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

mothers2mothers, promoting peer mentoring to fight HIV

m2m was founded in 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa with a remarkably simple, but equally visionary, idea—that African mothers living with HIV could serve [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

“Red Cross listens to you”: the psychosocial support service of the Spanish Red Cross

“Cruz Roja te escucha” (Red Cross listens to you) is a service that offers support and psychosocial accompaniment to the most fragile members of our [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Values, Power and Inclusion

“Toutes mes aides” or how to know what aids we are entitled to

Toutes mes aides has developed a smart simulator that enables individuals to identify all the social assistance to which they are entitled.
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

How the Bulgarian Red Cross is providing online trainings since the beginning of the pandemic

The e-platform for trainings of the Bulgarian Red Cross is a digital platform where every person can access online trainings in First aid, Psychosocial support, [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Easy Touch, the new adaptive fashion brand in Armenia

By founding "Easy Touch" LLC, Tatevik's goal is to create multifunctional and fashionable clothes for people with disabilities, promoting their maximum independence and improving the [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Artificial Intelligence
Health and Wellbeing

Searching Help: a digital listening system to detect suicidal risk behaviours

SearchingHelp is an application for suicide prevention. Its operation is based on a listening system that acts as a "detector" of increased risk of suicidal [...]
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Business Model
Data Tools / Analytics
Digital Medical Device
Health and Wellbeing

OmniVis: how to detect cholera in minutes rather than days

OmniVis makes a handheld plug-and-play device for detecting infectious diseases, in under 30 minutes, anywhere in the world.
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GIS / Mapping
Hardware / Physical Device
Disasters and Crisis

MapMakoko: How to map a slum via drone cartography & data journalism

Using drone cartography and data-driven journalism to map a slum in an African megacity. 
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Discovering Hands, better detection of breast cancer thanks to visually impaired people

In Duisburg, western Germany, Frank Hoffmann was the first gynecologist developing a more effective method of detecting breast tumors by training blind or visually impaired [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Chatbot / Conversational Interface
Migration and Displacement

WhatsApp Helpdesk: a support service for undocumented migrants

The WhatsApp Helpdesk for undocumented migrants is available 7 days/week to answer all sorts of questions.
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Application / Digital Platform
Migration and Displacement

The Netherlands Red Cross’ digital cash aid for undocumented migrants

Undocumented migrants who lack the means to cover their basic needs, receive a weekly digital supermarket voucher through WhatsApp. 
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Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Migration and Displacement

Helpful Information Web-app: a Netherlands Red Cross initiative with referral information for undocumented migrants

The web-application built by the Netherlands Red Cross helps undocumented migrants to find their way to the support available to them, by sharing referral information [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

Social Impact measurement at the French Red Cross

The Social Impact Measurement Unit is a service offered by the French Red Cross General Management which aims to support the organisation's employees and volunteers [...]
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Digital Learning / Gamification
Values, Power and Inclusion

Click_A, an initiative of the Red Cross in Andalusia to reduce the digital divide

Click_A is an initiative of the Red Cross in Andalusia that contributes to reducing digital gaps through a comprehensive intervention with people in situations of [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

LISA, the e-recruitment platform of the Italian Red Cross

The LISA project, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, has two main objectives: to promote the social and professional inclusion of [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Jokkosanté, financing the free distribution of medicines in Senegal

Jokkosanté, from Wolof jokkolanté, "to give and to receive", is an application developed by a telecommunication engineer to facilitate the financing of medicines in Senegal.
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Atlas, how to improve small businesses’ resilience in case of disasters

Atlas: Ready for Business is a global mobile application that supports micro, small, and medium sized business owners in preparing their business for disasters. 
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Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Health and Wellbeing

Covid-19, how the Indian Red Cross built a Door-to-Door Oxygen Re-filling campaign

As hospitals in Haryana and most parts of India were facing shortage of beds during the second wave of COVID, oxygen supply became a scarce [...]
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Tool
Hardware / Physical Device
Disasters and Crisis

NowLight, a reliable source of light for off-grid communities

NowLight is a manual generator that allows users to create power from the pull of a cord. Unlike other sources of electricity, NowLight does not [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Hoghi Baric, unleashing economic opportunities for Armenian farmers

Artush Khachatryan, the Founder of a start-up from the EU-supported IRIS incubator in Armenia, has introduced an innovative approach to Armenian agriculture. Artush has been [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

Be My Eyes, how can smartphones improve the daily life of blind people

Be My Eyes is a free smartphone app that connects people who are blind or have low vision with sighted volunteers and companies through live [...]
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Hardware / Physical Device
Health and Wellbeing

Ebola, the isolation device of the French Red Cross in DRC

The French Red Cross operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to fight against the Ebola Virus Disease outbreaks (3 successive outbreaks since May [...]
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Artificial Intelligence
Digital Medical Device
Health and Wellbeing

Unima, securing blood diagnostic for everyone

With the aim of providing timely, affordable and geographically accessible medical diagnostic tests, Unima has developed Find, a technology platform that uses biotechnology and artificial [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Disasters and Crisis

Volunteers in every street, the power of Whatsapp during the pandemic

Since the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the possible risks that were encountered with the field missions, Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) created a [...]
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Artificial Intelligence
Migration and Displacement

Foresight, using machine learning to predict refugees displacement

The Foresight model is designed to provide strategic displacement forecasts of the total number of forced displacements from a given country 1-3 years into the [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Migration and Displacement

Shelter Movers: Empowering Journeys to Safety

Shelter Movers is a national volunteer-powered charity that provides free moving and storage services to victims fleeing abuse. In collaboration with community agencies and local [...]
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Mindset
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

How Senegalese grandmothers make positive change in the communities

Grandmother Project – Change through Culture (GMP’s) is an American and Senegalese NGO.  Their program in Senegal with schools and communities uses an intergenerational and [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Health and Wellbeing

Croix-Rouge chez Vous, how to tackle social isolation during the pandemic

Croix-Rouge chez vous (Red Cross at home) is an operation launched on Friday 20 March 2020 by the French Red Cross to respond to the [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

ColaLife, delivering life-saving medicines through Coca-Cola’s supply chain

Cola Life is improving access to medicine for diarrhoea treatment by creating products that truly suit the needs and constraints of people at the bottom [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

The Chime, a network of shopkeepers offering services to the most excluded

The Chime is the first worldwide network of shopkeepers offering free services to the most excluded. Its mission is to break social exclusion, empower citizens [...]
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Data Tools / Analytics
Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Wellfare, delivering healthy food directly to those in need

Wellfare is a nonprofit organization delivering nourishment to the food-insecure in New York City. Every two weeks, they deliver a box of donated shelf-stable and [...]
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Humanitarian Innovation Platform, how to facilitate the collaboration of NGOs

The Humanitarian Innovation Platform (HIP) is a collaborative effort between humanitarian agencies to foster innovation and deliver smarter and more effective assistance to people in [...]
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Hardware / Physical Device
Open-Source Software
Health and Wellbeing

Autofabricantes, empowering children with disabilities through accessible solutions

Autofabricantes is a collaborative research project that aims to generate alternative solutions available in open source to empower children with malformation. The organisation strives for [...]
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Connected Devices
Digital Learning / Gamification
Migration and Displacement

Instant Network Schools: Connected education for refugees camps

The Instant Network Schools (INS) programme is a pioneering, holistic and human-centred model of effective use of technology to support quality education for refugees and [...]
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Process
Data Tools / Analytics
Disasters and Crisis

Digital volunteering, the response of Singapore to global disasters

Singapore Red Cross launched a Disaster Surveillance Team (DST) to monitor global natural or man-made incidents that may call upon the need of international humanitarian [...]
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Connected Devices
Health and Wellbeing

How can drones save rural areas in case of natural disasters

Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital proposes the "Ambulance Drone Concept" which is the integrated service model of telemedicine and medical cargo drones to improve the [...]
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Tool
Frugal / No-Tech
Disasters and Crisis

Sollune, lighting up isolated areas with phosphorescent shelters

Light, easy to handle and resistant, SOLLUNE tarpaulin collects sunlight during daytime to provide soft lightning to break the darkness at night.
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

The democratisation of digital health in rural Bangladesh

The ‘Free Health Cashback’ feature of Digital Healthcare Solutions (DH) enables various marginalised and people living under or close to the poverty line to access [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

How students of the Delft University of Technology apply human centred-design to social aid

In 2016 the Netherlands Red Cross partnered with the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology to bring human-centered design into humanitarian [...]
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Data Tools / Analytics
Hardware / Physical Device
Health and Wellbeing

Kumamoto Hospital, how to integrate innovation within a healthcare facility

Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital is functioning as an open innovation lab for humanitarian technologies by collaborating with various stakeholders such as academia, private sector [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Help Red Cross, supporting new volunteers during the pandemic crisis in Georgia

Help Red Cross is an online digital platform which aims to invite, train, and mobilise the volunteers to join the Covid-19 Response Team.
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Connected Devices
GIS / Mapping
Disasters and Crisis

How drones can revolutionise humanitarian action in Kenya

The Kenya Red Cross Society set up a Remotely PIloted Aircraft System unit in early 2019.
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Connected Devices
Climate change and Environment

Kumamoto Hospital launched a zero-emission hydrogen ambulance

Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital and Toyota Motor Corporation  begin demonstration testing of the world's first fuel cell electric mobile clinic.
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Mes Infos Bébé, the digital parenting coach of the French Red Cross

Mes Infos Bébé is a website that supports parents of children from 0 to 3 years old. It provides interactive and diverse content - images, [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

CRI per le persone, the toll free number of the Italian Red Cross to support isolated people

« CRI per le persone » is a project which amis to support social inclusion for the benefit of the most vulnerable people, by providing [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Disasters and Crisis

TÖD app, driving new volunteers during an emergency

The TÖD (Team Österreich Digital) is a smartphone application that allows better interaction with citizens and promotes their engagement in emergency situations facilitating the management [...]
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Business Model
Data Tools / Analytics
Offline / Low-Connectivity Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Sarafus, the community currency at the service of the local economy in Kenya

The Community Inclusion Currencies project is a blockchain-based initiative launched by the Kenyan Red Cross in partnership with the Grassroots economic foundation to strengthen the [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

BOOTCRE, accelerating humanitarian innovation through impact-oriented hackathons

BOOTCRE is a space for humanitarian innovation bootcamps or hackathons destined to the acceleration of innovative, viable, low-cost, high-impact, easily replicable and scalable projects.
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Digital Learning / Gamification
Values, Power and Inclusion

Gaming for good, the innovative fundraising approach of the British Red Cross

The gaming & streaming worlds are seen as an exciting opportunity for the British Red Cross to engage a new, strategic audience and drive substantial [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Online Counseling System, the digitalisation of social services

The GRC-Online Counseling System allows professional consultants to provide advice and support to people seeking help in all fields of social work - no longer [...]
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Chatbot / Conversational Interface
Disasters and Crisis

The voice-bots of the American Red Cross: providing easy access to information

The American Red Cross has a suite of voice skills to support its humanitarian mission across the business including in Biomedical, Training and Disaster Relief [...]
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Immersive Tech / VR / AR
Disasters and Crisis

How does Virtual Reality support local populations in case of disaster?

The IFRC Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre (APDRC), the regional reference centre established by the Republic of Korea National Red Cross in 2016, introduced Virtual [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

Intrapreneurship Programme at 21, the Social Innovation Accelerator of the French Red Cross

The Intrapreneurship Programme at 21 supports volunteers, employees and students in the French Red Cross carrying out a social innovation project with its development from [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

SIFI, the Innovation and Training System of the Ecuadorian Red Cross

SIFI encourages and supports the development of scalable, low-cost, high-impact projects that respond to humanitarian challenges in an innovative way.
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TECSOS Foundation, when social needs meet technological know-how

TECSOS links the social experience of the Spanish Red Cross with the technological excellence of Spanish Vodafone Foundation, with the aim of addressing social needs [...]
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Digital Learning / Gamification
Hardware / Physical Device
Values, Power and Inclusion

I.O Me FabLab, broadening youth economic opportunities in rural Kenya

I.O.Me Lab is a community based innovation space with an array of Digital Fabrication tools to facilitate prototyping and small scale manufacturing of innovative ideas/products. [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Elterncampus, the digital platform for young parents

The Elterncampus of the German Red Cross is a digital platform that offers virtual live courses for parents and families.
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Service
Chatbot / Conversational Interface
Disasters and Crisis

Clara, the chatbots of the American Red Cross

The American Red Cross introduced two chatbots to guide blood donors and individuals seeking emergency aid on their search for critical information: Clara, the blood [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

RedCloud, sharing and supporting best practices through p2p communication

A digital platform where volunteers and employees from the Italian Red Cross are enabled to share best practices through peer-to-peer communication, develop a network, find [...]
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Mindset
Digital Learning / Gamification
Health and Wellbeing

REDpreneur: Building Resilient Social Enterprises for the Future

REDpreneur offers business skills and enterprise development support to the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and beyond for more impact, innovation and sustainable service delivery. [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

The Power of Ideas, fostering change through a bottom-up approach

In 2019 the British Red Cross launched The Power of Ideas. It is an online platform where staff, volunteers (and in the future supporters) can [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

RPA at the British Red Cross, saving time and resources through automation technology

Deploying robotic process automation (RPA) technology to free-up human capacity and creativity .
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Values, Power and Inclusion

eCommerce at the British Red Cross, the fundraising and supporter engagement tool

The digital gift-shop is a place for people to explore and shop for products, knowing their purchases will have a powerful impact by supporting the [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Community approach, rethinking the local engagement of the British Red Cross

Engaging and understanding the strengths and needs of communities in high risk, low resource places.
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Digital Learning / Gamification
Migration and Displacement

Miles for Refugees, making your miles count

Miles for Refugees is a virtual fundraising event which runs in September. When people register they have the choice of six distances, each related to [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

IDEATECA, the repository for ideas of the Spanish Red Cross

IDEATECA empowers online / offline innovation ecosystems with highly motivated people from the Spanish Red Cross in order to develop consciously the collective intelligence at [...]
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Tool
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

The Spanish Red Cross app, connecting the volunteers of the association

The Red Cross App is a technological tool that aims to mobilise society against vulnerability. On its app, the Spanish Red Cross proposes several humanitarian [...]
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Service
Digital Learning / Gamification
Values, Power and Inclusion

DigiCraft, empowering young people in the digital world

The Digicraft program aims to train young people from 6 to 12 years old in the necessary digital skills for tomorrow's life.
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Immersive Tech / VR / AR
Health and Wellbeing

EntamAR, how augmented reality improves the daily lives of hospitalized children

EntamAR is an app that uses Augmented Reality to improve the daily lives of children with long-term stays in hospital. Through creative games using drawings [...]
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Tool
Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Orientatech, the compass of social innovation technology

The Orientatech project developed by the Social Technologies Foundation (TECSOS) in collaboration with Spanish Red Cross and Vodafone Foundation, aims to encourage participation and provide [...]
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Tool
Data Tools / Analytics
Disasters and Crisis

Open Data, managing data effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Spanish Red Cross pioneered an Open Data strategy during the pandemic by publishing live data on its activity in a totally transparent way. Thanks [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
GIS / Mapping
Health and Wellbeing

Mobile Telecare, providing autonomy to elderly and disabled people

The Mobile Telecare (TAM) project aims to provide autonomy and security to elderly and disabled people inside and outside their homes through a mobile app [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Telecare, the CRM strategy of the Spanish Red Cross for attracting new users

The Spanish Red Cross has implemented a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) to automate some interactive processes related to Contact Centers: user data collection, information management, [...]
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Tool
Data Tools / Analytics
Health and Wellbeing

Information Management, improving humanitarian action through data collection and visualisation

IFRC proposes digital transformation 2030, describing in one of its points the literacy of data with respect to National Societies (NS). It means that each [...]
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Tool
Application / Digital Platform
Artificial Intelligence
Health and Wellbeing

Aalia Technologies, breaking language barriers through a medical voice assistant

Aalia Technologies is a startup that offers a solution to the difficulties caused by language barriers in the medical environment. It has developed AaliaTech, a [...]
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Tool
Application / Digital Platform
Disasters and Crisis

Minutis, improving coordination during emergency operations

Minutis is a digital solution developed by the French Red Cross that permits performance management of emergency operations.
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Migration and Displacement

WERO, supporting the professional inclusion of refugees

WERO is a recruitment agency that connects refugees with private companies. The aim is to direct refugees to opportunities that match their talents and to [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Third Places, the territorial strategy of the French Red Cross

Halfway between the home and the workplace, the third place is a place of conviviality and socialising, where everyone gives and everyone receives. Users co-construct [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

21, the Social Innovation Accelerator of the French Red Cross

21 is the Social Innovation Accelerator of the French Red Cross. 21 hosts a set of programs to support projects with a positive social impact, [...]
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Service
Artificial Intelligence
Health and Wellbeing

Arbitryum, how data can improve the quality of life in care homes for the elderly

Arbitryum is a digital platform that collects and analyses data from a wide variety of stakeholders (managers, employees, carers, etc.) in care homes for the [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Croix-Rouge Mobilités, the shared mobility solution for tomorrow

Red Cross Mobility is a social and regional innovation programme that champions sustainable and inclusive transport. It aims to support the local branches of the [...]
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Process
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

Entrepreneurship Programme at 21, the Social Innovation Accelerator of the French Red Cross

In 2019, the French Red Cross built entrepreneurial support programs that work with external stakeholders (NGOs, social enterprises, private companies, etc.) in the development of [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Chez Henry, the textile Strategy of the French Red Cross

In the face of a booming second-hand clothing market, the French Red Cross has implemented a new strategy to develop its textile activity on a [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Climate change and Environment

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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Offline / Low-Connectivity Tech
Migration and Displacement

Internet Café Feasibility Study – Mahama Refugee Camp

The Mahama Internet Café Project is a refugee-led initiative providing affordable digital access in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda. Powered by sustainable energy, it offers internet [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Climate change and Environment

Test – Audit

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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Offline / Low-Connectivity Tech
Migration and Displacement

Mahama Internet Cafe Digital Inclusion For All

The Mahama Internet Café Project is a refugee-led initiative providing affordable digital access in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda. Powered by sustainable energy, it offers internet [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Climate change and Environment

Ossi tool to lighten the position of trust process for sections

Ossi tool lightens up and digitalizes the process around reporting and managing positions of trust and rule-based annual meetings. It also allows sections to view [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Climate change and Environment

Venturest

Outsourcing your digital and technological challenges is complex. At Venturest, we connect, develop, and manage your projects working with filtered startups, freelancers, and agencies in [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

The Skybird Programme Sub-Grant Approach

The Skybird Programme, led by the Austrian Red Cross and its partners, aims at contributing to improved living conditions – incl. health, environment and livelihood [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Climate change and Environment

PocketPatientMD

PocketPatientMD is a free electronic medical record platform and App that is available online and offline with no internet or electricity. PocketPatientMD is multilingual, in [...]
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Business Model
Connected Devices
Disasters and Crisis

Management of tourist services in national parks by the Costa Rican Red Cross

This project consists of managing parking services, souvenir shops, and cafeterias in national parks.
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