Welcome to Digital Humanitarians

The purpose of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHNetwork) is to leverage digital networks in support of 21st century humanitarian response. More specifically, the aim of this network-of-networks is to form a consortium of Volunteer & Technical Communities (V&TCs) and to provide an interface between formal, professional humanitarian organizations and informal yet skilled-and-agile volunteer & technical networks. Services offered by members of the DHNetwork are listed here. We are taking an iterative approach in developing this interface and will expand membership to this network over time. Membership is by organization only. We also plan to organize a crisis simulation to assess our worfklows in the near future.

The purpose of the DHNetwork Coordinators is to review activation-requests and rapidly liaise with the different volunteer & technical teams who are members of Digital Humanitarians to build a Solution Team best able to act on a request. The Coordinators aim to provide a response to every request within 24 hours. More information about the coordinators and their role is available here.

Please use #DHnetwork when tweeting about this network, thank you.

Blog Posts

Announcing the New DHN Coordinators

We are happy to announce the new coordinators for the Digital Humanitarian Network.  The below coordinators stepped into this role effective May 1, 2013.

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Posted by DH Coordinators on May 13, 2013 at 8:22pm

DHNetwork 2012 - A Year In Review

2012 has proven to be quite an amazing and eventful year for the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHNetwork) especially given that all work has been on individuals’ volunteer time! From launch to membership expansion to guidance material to Ignite talks to integration with traditional entities to four activations, the network has been quite active advancing the integration of volunteer efforts with those of the traditional humanitarian community.

Having come a long way from…

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Posted by DH Coordinators on January 2, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

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Notes from our scaling call..

AttendeesPatrick with Crisis MappersChris and Cat with Humanity RoadMax with DataKindShoreh with GIScorpsAndrej with UNOCHARebecca with Translators without BordersPascal with Crisis CommonsWillow and…Continue

Started by Geeks Without Bounds Mar 25.

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Announcing the New DHN Coordinators

We are happy to announce the new coordinators for the Digital Humanitarian Network.  The below coordinators stepped into this role effective May 1, 2013.Cat Graham, Humanity RoadKate Chapman, Humanitarian Open-Street-Map TeamLuis Capelo a volunteer member of the …See More
May 13
Geeks Without Bounds posted a discussion

Notes from our scaling call..

AttendeesPatrick with Crisis MappersChris and Cat with Humanity RoadMax with DataKindShoreh with GIScorpsAndrej with UNOCHARebecca with Translators without BordersPascal with Crisis CommonsWillow and Lindsay with Geeks Without BoundsWhy are we a part of this?Patrick - wanted to be a part of it, digital humanitarians didn’t have an ecosystem. Didn’t want to go it alone.Chris: Humanity Road   Wanted to put information into the hands of aid providers faster and felt the DHN organization of…See More
Mar 25
Humanity Road commented on DH Coordinators's blog post DHNetwork 2012 - A Year In Review
"Thank you Andrej for your leadership in 2012. We have been honored to participate and look forward to the opportunity to do so again in 2013.  We never wish for disaster to happen, but when it does, we are grateful for the opportunity to…"
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