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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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Service
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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Service
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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Service
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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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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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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