We’ve been working with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) to build the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX, @humdata).
Us and the UN
When you think of humanitarian crises like war, famine, earthquakes, storms and the like you probably don’t think “data”. But data is critical to humanitarian relief efforts, background questions like: What is the country we’re deploying to like in terms of population, geography, infrastructure, economic development, social structures? What resources, financial and human, are available […]