“Do no harm.” This key humanitarian innovation principle is about being responsible, carefully taking into consideration risks and undesirable outcomes innovation might bring to local communities and, without a doubt, ...
IMD Business School MBA class of 2016 comes to ICRCs headquarters to listen to President Peter Maurer talk about the state of the world and the growing importance for the ...
Last January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ICRC’s President Peter Maurer launched the Humanitarian Impact Bond (HIB). Since then we have been hard at work on this great ...
To solve humanitarian challenges with digital fabrication on a global scale: this is what the Global Humanitarian Lab vows to do. The newborn humanitarian organization was launched this morning at ...
Six weeks have passed since the Global Partnership for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation event (GPHI2) took place at IMD, in Lausanne. We have since been hard at work translating the many ideas that ...
Do you know which is the closest hospital to you right now? Do you know the exact location? Do you know what services they provide? Having this information at hand ...
Noncommunicable diseases are sometimes referred to as “a public catastrophe in slow motion”, and tackling the causes and the consequences have therefore become a priority for ICRC. Along with Novartis ...
The Humanitarian Tech Hub, an ambitious research and development programme by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), was ...
The collaboration between different sectors on specific challenges has proven countless times to be source of inspiration, innovation and ground-breaking solutions. The goal of the Global Partnership for Humanitarian Impact ...
With the boom of digital fabrication it was only a matter of time before humanitarians explored its potential for their own sector. David Ott, senior innovation analyst at ICRC and ...
