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Humanitarian aid-distribution programs help bring physical goods to people in need. Traditional paper-based solutions to support aid distribution do not scale to large populations and are hard to secure. Existing digital solutions solve these issues, at th ...
IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023Repair! Reclaiming Berlin’s Workers’ Housing through Collaborative Transformation
The phase of economic and humanitarian emergencies after the Great War functioned as a laboratory for architects to develop quick, rational responses. But socialist visions became stuck in privatization, and values of a bygone society were maintained by pr ...
2023Bridging the gap between theoretical and practical privacy technologies for at-risk populations
With the pervasive digitalization of modern life, we benefit from efficient access to information and services. Yet, this digitalization poses severe privacy challenges, especially for special-needs individuals. Beyond being a fundamental human right, priv ...
EPFL2023Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian. Action Criteria for humanitarian building sustainability
Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Guillaume Habert, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, André Ullal
Humanitarian organisations have an interest in improving the sustainability of buildings that support the assistance provided to people affected by conflict and disaster. Yet, usual means of assessing building sustainability - e.g., labels such as LEED and ...
2022Fine-grained population mapping from coarse census counts and open geodata
Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger, Muhammad Imran
Fine-grained population maps are needed in several domains, like urban planning, environmental monitoring, public health, and humanitarian operations. Unfortunately, in many countries only aggregate census counts over large spatial units are collected, mor ...
2022Building a path towards responsible use of Biometrics
Like many other enterprises, humanitarian organizations are investing in their digital transformation. In this sector, an important effort is put into biometric solutions. The ICRC has been exploring new ways of how they could integrate biometrics into the ...
2021Introduction to the Swiss Data Custodian
Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss, Olivier Verscheure
Trust in the use of sensitive data is not nearly widespread. Even though there is no shortage in tools and methods to address the digitisation of our society and industries, the acquisition and access to non-open data represent the greatest challenge. In t ...
2019Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology
Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer
The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...
ACM2017GraaspBox: Enabling Mobile Knowledge Delivery into Underconnected Environments
Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk
Interacting with knowledge in a timely fashion is critical for the success of humanitarian missions. At the same time, the places where humanitarian action is needed are often those where Internet connection is poor or not available at all, making digital ...
ACM2017Special Section on Energy and Food Security in a Humanitarian Context
Natural disasters, population growth, social conflicts, and political or structural crises give rise to forced migrations, which can lead to humanitarian emergencies. According to the “UNHCR annual global trends report”, 65.6 million people were displaced ...
2017