Welcome to Inspired: your window into innovation at the ICRC

Welcome to Inspired: your window into innovation at the ICRC

For us, innovation is much more than a buzzword. It is an opportunity to change for the better: for the populations we serve, for our organization, and for our partners. ...

Rewards and risks in humanitarian AI: an example

Rewards and risks in humanitarian AI: an example

6 September 2019, Data and digitalization / New technologies / Restoring family links

New technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, can make humanitarian work better, faster ...

The challenge to carve out a new energy future

The challenge to carve out a new energy future

19 July 2019, Environmental sustainability

How the ICRC is learning to use energy more sustainably for itself, for the people it serves and for the planet. Every person ...

How to build a Better Body Bag

How to build a Better Body Bag

12 July 2019, Forensics / New technologies

The ‘Better Body Bag’ has been a textbook exercise in innovation: it started from a well-defined need; its development has been iterative, with ...

Ethics, data and innovation

Ethics, data and innovation

3 July 2019, Data and digitalization

In every modern humanitarian crisis, collecting data has become an integral corollary of helping affected communities. Data is essential to understanding and responding ...

Embracing digital transformation

Embracing digital transformation

2 July 2019, Data and digitalization / New technologies

Digital technologies and artificial intelligence are transforming the way people and organizations function in both the physical and virtual worlds. Digitalization is also ...

A nudge towards better behavior

A nudge towards better behavior

1 July 2019, Behavior change / Health care

Target practice in a toilet bowl. It might not seem logical but – according to published studies – a fly painted on the ...