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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Answering community needs through micro-grants

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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Health and Wellbeing

Connecting volunteers and people to overcome unwanted loneliness

With the aim of reducing social isolation and unwanted loneliness among people and providing information and tools to improve their situation, in 2022 the Spanish [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Empowering women through the Mothers’ Clubs

The Mothers' Club (MC) is a holistic approach that promotes women's empowerment and resilience (and that of their households and communities). The approach is based [...]
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Offline / Low-Connectivity Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Improving the cost and quality of care through a medical record platform

PocketPatientMD is a free medical device enables health organizations and healthcare workers to better organize and manage patient records, medical histories, billing, visits, appointments, and [...]
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Service
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Values, Power and Inclusion

Facilitating digital inclusion for the elderly

PIDA (Points of Digital Inclusion), a project developed by AlfabeTICs60, aims at "bringing" digital inclusion to a greater number of older people. To achieve this, [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

AllGrow : empowering youth to craft social innovations

The AllGrow app strives to serve as a dynamic platform facilitating connections and empowering youth to craft social innovations through gamification and technology. By providing [...]
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Artificial Intelligence
Values, Power and Inclusion

Meeting justice needs of excluded communities

BarefootLaw is a non-profit organisation which, through the innovative use of digital technology, empowers people with free legal information so that they can use it [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Disasters and Crisis

ONESolution : the platform which enables scalable and transparent humanitarian assistance

RedRose’s ONEsolution is a data management and payments/distribution platform that offers humanitarian actors the opportunity to manage every step of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Supporting social change through street arts and sports

GAME’s mission is to create lasting social change through youth-led street sports and culture. GAME offers youth an education as volunteer GAME Playmakers which are [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Carton Plein: the ideal combination of environmental action and employment integration

Carton Plein is a social and professional integration association that helps people suffering from social exclusion to find work, by providing them with complementary and [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Offline / Low-Connectivity Tech
Migration and Displacement

How to reconnect family members separated by humanitarian crises

The Trace the Face website is the result of an initiative led by a number of European National Societies, developed with the technical support of [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Disasters and Crisis

How to build a village of solidarity in the face of the crisis

Bihucourt is a rural community with a population of 8 00, 50% of which was destroyed by a tornado on 23 October 2022. An hour [...]
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