Humanitarian ICT Road-Map and Standardisation

Editor's Notes

• #4: In response to humanitarian crisis and support, we are intermediary organizations bridging the gap between the “funders”/donors and the beneficiaries. The donors need more or less the same standardized reports and results. How do we work within the humanitarian sector with standardize tools and apps. How are we leveraging on ICT expertise and skills Duplications of Efforts Do we reinvent the wheel/recycle or collaborate. Huge cost of investment in reinvesting the wheel ICT as a Service Provider NGO/INGO Sector working in consortias, how are we prepared to enable the consortia to work in harmony. Do we have an integrated system to be used by the consortium Over dependence on Donor funding Targeting the same public/individual donors who are aging making this kind of funding not sustainable Targeting same corporate donors and governments while operating within the very same sectors
• #5: We need to re-think our model as a Region and as a Sector as innovation is now making it possible for the “donor” to directly interact with the beneficiary.
• #6: Being in the 4th Industrial Revolution there is evidence of dramatic changes around us and its happening at exponential speed How are we prepared and positioned???? UNDER CONECTIVITY: In 2015 a Humanitarian Connectivity Charter was launched by the GSMA at Mobile World Congress. The charter is supported by the UN OCHA, the UN Emergency Telecommunications Cluster and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. It was created to help strengthen access to communication and information during crises to reduce loss of life and positively contribute to humanitarian response.
• #7: How many of our applications now run on cloud i.e. webportals, application systems (office365, Antivirus on cloud i.e. Sophos, kaspersky etc), Cloud data backups etc. Meraki MX Firewall Need to keep our operations and systems AGILE Designers must consider IT security early in the development of applications, solutions, and enterprise architectures. We expect entity behavior analytics will be required across enterprises, and multi-layered security measures will rule the day.
• #8: Note on AI A good example: VPAs—virtual personal assistants—are another example. They can transform businesses by streamlining workplace processes, such as prioritizing emails and highlighting specific content 1. In near future, we will see the rise of intelligent apps that go beyond assistants. In fact, every software category—from security and beyond—will have artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities
• #9: A blockchain facilitates secure online transactions. A blockchain is a decentralized and distributed digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that the record cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks and the collusion of the network. This will be a big deal for a few crucial industries—music distribution, title registry, and identity verification, to name the big ones. IBM Blockchain In simple words, Bitcoin is a crypto-currency proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto which makes electronic payments without any trusted-intermediaries. Blockchaintechnology was used as a backend of Bitcoin for maintaining the distributed transaction ledger in a peer-to-peer fashion which was anonymous and permissionless.
• #10: AR – Augmented Reality? (Holokit is googles cardboard for AR), Holograms and Hololenses. Pokemon Go a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Augmented reality is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it. AR applications for smartphones typically include global positioning system (GPS) to pinpoint the user's location and its compass to detect device orientation. Sophisticated AR programs used by the military for training may include machine vision, object recognition and gesture recognition technologies. VIRTUAL REALITY the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.
• #11: As a sector what strategies are we using when defining our organizational ICT road-maps i.e. Blue ocean or red ocean strategy
• #13: What makes the customer delighted: Emotions, Value and Efficiency Bottom line we as the ICT Leads are expected to consider the mission, vision and overall strategic road-map of our parent organization and try and map it to the overall Sectorial map and the SDG
• #14: Embracing best practises i.e. LMMS (WorldVision), VSL & Digital birth Registration (Plan) etc Eliminate unnecessary duplication of efforts which results to huge financial loss Adoption of tried and tested innovations Enhance collaborations and communication amongst the players in the region
• #15: i.e. LMMS (WorldVision), VSL & Digital birth Registration (Plan) etc Coming up with individual Tech Hubs i.e. Save – Tech Hub, SOS’s DDC , K Point for PATH as leaders FOOD for THOUGHT “HAVE A CENTRALIZED HUB for the REGION”