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See how innovators from across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and beyond are reimagining solutions to today’s humanitarian challenges. Dive into more than 200 projects — from early pilots to scaled impact — spanning service, process, and business model innovation.

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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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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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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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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
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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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