Technology Innovation and Data for Humanitarian Aid. Bartel Van de Walle Policy Analysis Section Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

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1 Technology Innovation and Data for Humanitarian Aid Bartel Van de Walle Policy Analysis Section Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

The development of a more technology-oriented approach to humanitarian action is essential and inescapable to take advantage of the opportunities to improve, for example, information gathering,

2 The development of a more technology-oriented approach to humanitarian action is essential and inescapable to take advantage of the opportunities to improve, for example, information gathering, analysis, coordination, action or fund-raising. Bekele Geleta, Secretary- General of the IFRC, World Disasters Report 2013 Bartel Van de Walle & Tina Comes: IM in Complex and Natural Disasters 17/01/2018

3 Technology is a driver of change 17/01/2018 Tina Comes: ICT for Resilience 3

5 Realities of the Field Bartel Van de Walle & Tina Comes: IM in Complex and Natural Disasters 17/01/2018

6 Office in the field 17/01/2018 Tina Comes: ICT for Resilience 6

7 Matching innovation and needs

vaccines Allocation of assets to a specific mission is invisible for the other players; unless

9 Initial Prototype of Board Game Board game - 4 teams of 2 players Fictitious crisis region - 3 locations Roles: NGOs Objective: saving the life of beneficiaries Resources: blankets, food, and vaccines Allocation of assets to a specific mission is invisible for the other players; unless communication tokens is used Event cards - Risk & Uncertainties Scoring: Saved lives & Individual mission contributions

Project Objectives COMRADES aims to empower communities with intelligent socio-technical solutions to help them reconnect, respond to, and recover

Main objectives: Extract the socio-technical requirements for collective resilience platforms Automatically identify, process, assess, and monitor

11 Project Objectives COMRADES aims to empower communities with intelligent socio-technical solutions to help them reconnect, respond to, and recover from crisis situations. Main objectives: Extract the socio-technical requirements for collective resilience platforms Automatically identify, process, assess, and monitor emergency events in distributed communities and social media sources Measure the informativeness and validity of crisis information Develop the intelligent COMRADES platform for community resilience Deploy COMRADES to support real and distributed communities during live crises events

12 Sinkhole caused by collapsed mine in Transcarp ImProDiReT Improving disaster risk reduction in Transcarpathian region Kick-off Meeting Jan 2018 Contact: Kenny Meesters

Background Transcarpathian region o The Transcarpathian region is situated in the West of Ukraine. It is literally over the Carpathian Mountain range and has borders with four EUmember states.

o The region has a turbulent history, being part of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, USSR and Ukraine in recent times.

13 Background Transcarpathian region o The Transcarpathian region is situated in the West of Ukraine. It is literally over the Carpathian Mountain range and has borders with four EUmember states. The population of Transcarpathia is multi-ethnic, with several large minority groups, for example Romanians, Hungarians, Russians and Romas. o The region has a turbulent history, being part of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, USSR and Ukraine in recent times. Its economy is largely dependent on forestry, but other agrocultur, industry and mining are significant. Risks o In general the risks are flooding, flash floods, landslides, earthquakes, wild fire and man-made, like mining. o Large-scale and intensive salt-wining activities have led to a heavy mining industry. The mines are now largely abandoned and are at risk of collapsing. The area itself however is still being intensively used by the local population o In 2014 two advisory mission were conducted by the Civil Protection Mechanism to Ukraine. o In 2016 the UCPM was activated jointly by Hungary and Ukraine to tackle the emergency situation at the Solotvyno collapsing salt mines. It lead to two subsequent EUCP missions. (scoping & prevention, and preparedness)

14 Airports in Disaster

15 Airport as Nexus Military operations (CivMil) Relief supplies Medevac Customs Warehouse (LogBase) Distribution & Truck depot Border Patrol & Immigration Reception & Departure Center (RDC) People leaving (PAX) Rescue team arrival Search & Rescue (USAR) Commercial airlines Temporary Camp (IDP) United Nations Air Service (UNHAS) Coordination Center (OSOCC) Base Camp Researchers Emergency Relief Items (WFP) Emergency Telco

systems (not only infrastructure) Built on: Research & Critical examination of existing practices Operational assistance

16 Airport in Disasters Examine airports as: Logistical nexus between international aid and local implementation Information and coordination exchange hub Combining knowledge from the humanitarian sector and aviation industry Complex, multi-actor systems (not only infrastructure) Built on: Research & Critical examination of existing practices Operational assistance to affected airports Exercises and training for dissemination of knowledge Existing networks & expertise in the Netherlands

17 Quickscan: Improving lead times for humanitarian intervention Kenny Meesters Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology Photo UNICEF/NYHQ /Esiebo

18 Motivation What can we, as Dutch humanitarian organizations, do to ensure rapid aid delivery? To develop adequate, grounded solutions we need to understand the challenges faced. We need to articulate the question: State of the art and current best practices Understand the opportunities & barriers Develop clear challenges

19 HumTech Lab

20 Thank you bvdwalle

Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities

2015/SOM1/EPWG/032 Agenda Item: 8.6 Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities Purpose: Information Submitted by: China 7 th Emergency Preparedness Working Group Meeting Subic, Philippines 28-29 January