Digital Humanitarian Network

Digital Humanitarian Network

April 2013 – Current

There are many organizations using digital tools to improve how disaster and humanitarian response work is done. The Digital Humanitarian Network works to create an easy interface for more traditional response agencies to the services digital groups provide, and to provide a coordinating function for these groups.

Role

 

As a coordinator, I have worked to improve what Network members do with each other to further the state of the field. Beyond the Network’s responses to crises, I have set up the otherwise independent eighteen Network Members to better see, collaborate, and build with each other for more streamlined digital responses to protracted and sudden onset crises. I have also organized and facilitated regular call-ins and summits, designed and implemented self-governance structures, and navigated complex inter-organizational dynamics with groups ranging from six to forty, while reporting back to a group of eighty. Implement pre-existing data standards during and between crises, deploy technology collaboration tools and processes for the Network, and help Network members design and spec new technical projects.