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. ...

Finding fit-for-purpose tools in the fight against chronic disease

Finding fit-for-purpose tools in the fight against chronic disease

12 October 2020, Health care / ICRC Innovates

Humanitarians are increasingly aware that underlying non-communicable diseases compound the acute crises they are more focused on. The understanding that emergency response is ...

ICRC’s second global innovation meeting builds, broadens and accelerates 100% online

ICRC’s second global innovation meeting builds, broadens and accelerates 100% online

14 August 2020, ICRC Innovates

For the ICRC, innovation is a way to do things differently and better – create new value, respond to evolving needs and contexts, ...

Complex network migration and analysis

Complex network migration and analysis

5 August 2020, Forensics / Restoring family links

When a person goes missing, it’s usually the family that approaches the ICRC to ask for help. But how do you find someone ...

Diverse discussions help picture a post-COVID world

Diverse discussions help picture a post-COVID world

16 July 2020, ICRC Innovates

In response to unprecedented upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the ICRC is collaborating with colleagues at MSF and UNHCR on an initiative ...

Drones, infrared cameras and AI join the search for mines

Drones, infrared cameras and AI join the search for mines

16 June 2020, New technologies / Weapon contamination

Landmine detection is often an inexact and inefficient process, and that’s a problem that the ICRC is trying to solve. Doing so involves ...

Innovation in the time of COVID-19

Innovation in the time of COVID-19

28 April 2020, ICRC Innovates

It seems there is hardly anything left to say on the subject of COVID-19: it is (or is not) the great equalizer, it ...