Humanitrain Vehicle Trauma Kit
Humanitrain Vehicle Trauma Kit for the field, inspired by the field.
2 Mar 2015 Resource
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Equipment
Runbag: Prepared When Required
Equipment advice for staff travelling to high risk environments and in need of a durable bag with a protective storage system.
9 Jan 2015 Resource
Have you listened to our webinar on communications technology, security risk management and humanitarian delivery?
GISF teamed up with DisasterReady.org to host a webinar entitled ‘Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management’. The webinar launches GISF’s new paper of the same title, and features engaging discussion on opportunities and challenges of communications technology in humanitarian delivery from Imogen Wall (the paper’s co-editor) and Rory Byrne (Founder and CEO of Security First).
18 Dec 2014 News
Webinar – Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management
GISF teamed up with DisasterReady.org to host a webinar entitled ‘Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management’. The webinar launches GISF’s new paper of the same title, and features engaging discussion on opportunities and challenges of communications technology in humanitarian delivery from Imogen Wall (the paper’s co-editor) and Rory Byrne (Founder and CEO of Security First).
17 Dec 2014 Blog
Guest Blogger: Anis Chouchane writes on new technologies and data protection
Anis Chouchane has written a second blog for GISF, addressing the question of new technologies and data protection: are humanitarian organisations ready to face security threats of the 21st century?
15 Dec 2014 News
GISF Webinar: Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery – Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management
EISF teamed up with DisasterReady.org to host a webinar entitled ‘Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management’. The webinar launches GISF’s new paper of the same title, and features engaging discussion on opportunities and challenges of communications…
15 Dec 2014 Resource
Security risk management for humanitarian operations and open-source social media platforms
In recent years, most humanitarian organisations have established a strong online presence, using social media platforms for information sharing, awareness-raising, and civil mobilisation. Until recently, however, the use of e-tools for programming purposes has been of a fairly ad hoc, reactive nature. There are growing concerns in the humanitarian sector about the security procedures, or lack thereof, accompanying the use of communications technology and open source platforms for aid delivery.
3 Jul 2014 Blog
Communications technology and humanitarian delivery: challenges and opportunities for security risk management
The European Inter Agency Security Forum (GISF) is pleased to announce a new publication presenting discussion papers which will look at how communications technology is creating new security risk management challenges and opportunities for agencies working in humanitarian response. The publication will present information on current technologies and their use in security risk management; explore the impact on security of both humanitarian actors and affected communities; analyse the ways in which technologies are influencing how humanitarians operate and their security; and generate debate on how communications technology can contribute to risk management.
29 Apr 2014 Blog
Security risk management and new technologies
Aid agencies operate in many conflict-affected contexts that are considered by Western powers as threats to international peace and security. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) controversially used to respond to these threats, have already changed the contexts in which aid workers find themselves in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now, the potential introduction of LARs (Lethal Autonomous Robotics- weapons systems that can select and engage targets without intervention by a human operator), could further change the humanitarian operational context, as well as the types of threats aid workers are exposed to in the field.
28 Feb 2014 Blog