Shift the power in humanitarian data: support the Data Values Advocates Program
The Data Values Advocates Program equips people, especially young people and those from underrepresented communities, with the skills and resources to advocate for equitable, community-centred data systems. Learn how you can get involved!
Join CDAC Network at the 2024 Public Forum – Data, power and participation: towards the ethical adoption of tech
This year’s Public Forum will ask: what could accountable AI design and governance look like? Who controls the data shaping humanitarian action? Whose ethics should guide the take-up of tech in conflicts and crises? What information and tools do crisis-affected communities need to play a central role in decision-making?
Why community engagement is the smart strategy for AI in humanitarian response
Watch the World Summit AI 2024 panel where CDAC’s Executive Director, Helen McElhinney, made the case for deeper community participation in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in humanitarian settings.
New online course – Community crisis intelligence: elevating community voices with AI
CDAC Network is excited to announce the launch of a new online training course, designed to equip humanitarian professionals with the skills to harness the power of community intelligence and AI to deliver faster, better and more localised humanitarian responses.
What’s AI doing to information airways in conflict and crises?
Generative artificial intelligence is a new dimension to the old problem of disinformation. It has made the issue much more complicated, particularly for people affected by conflict and crises. How should humanitarians respond?
Is truth the first casualty? The role of communication in crisis and humanitarian action
Video and key takeaways from CDAC Network’s panel at Humanitarian Xchange 2024, featuring Ahmed Al Khameri (Chemonics), Annie Slemrod (The New Humanitarian), Meg Sattler (Ground Truth Solutions) and Stijn Aelbers (Internews).
Why we urgently need a humanitarian manifesto for AI
As part of The Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK Fringe in March 2024, CDAC Network hosted an event at London’s Frontline Club to ask: ‘Do we need a humanitarian manifesto for AI?’ Catch up on the videos and key takeaways here, including a keynote from Dr Abeba Birhane.
Do we need a humanitarian manifesto for AI? Join CDAC Network at the Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK Fringe
Register to join CDAC Network at the Alan Turing Institute's AI UK Fringe to discuss whether a humanitarian manifesto for artificial intelligence is needed, and how it could be informd by conflict- and crisis-affected communities.
In the age of AI, how do we scale digital opportunities and secure safer information landscapes for people caught in conflict?
Seismic shifts in the digital landscape are reshaping the experience of communication in conflict across the world. What can build resilience to emerging threats to media freedom and trusted communication in conflict? And how can humanitarian principles inform sector take-up of emerging technologies such as AI?
The next level in community-led engagement and accountability: integrating a participatory mixed-methods approach
Photo story: how participatory video methods can be used to centre communities’ voices, perspectives and expertise at every stage of humanitarian programming and response.
Who shapes global narratives in today’s AI-enabled world – and what do conflict-affected communities and humanitarians need to know?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a critical factor in global governance, international relations and the information environment, and it is crucial that humanitarians understand its implications in conflict contexts. Listen to our Public Forum panel with Amil Khan, Jonathan Tanner and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.
Empowering communities: insights from the #ShiftThePower Summit in Bogotá
Following the 2023 #ShiftThePower Summit in Bogotá, we reflect on inclusion, decolonisation, solidarity, technology and how we tip the balance of power in humanitarian and development decision-making to communities.
The digital frontier: Robert Mardini on the information landscape in conflict
How are shifts in the digital landscape shaping modern conflict? What role do private tech companies have to play? And how should humanitarians respond? BBC News presenter Geeta Guru-Murthy put these questions to Robert Mardini, Director-General of the ICRCR, at the opening of CDAC Network’s 2023 Public Forum. Listen to their conversation here.
Status of communication and information in Gaza
An update on the status of communication in conflict-affected Gaza, where as of 18 October 2023 people have no accessible means of communicating digitally and lack trusted information to help them make informed decisions.
Urgent call to response leadership: advance communication and dialogue in Libya
As the international humanitarian response to the Libya floods ramps up, CDAC Network and its members urgently call for response leadership to advance coordinated communication with affected people.
CDAC Network: one year of promoting effective system-wide communication across the Ukraine response
Reflections on a year of CDAC’s project to ensure effective system-wide communication across the Ukraine response by bridging the gap between local and global responders.
Appointment of Helen McElhinney as Executive Director of CDAC Network
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Helen McElhinney as Executive Director of CDAC Network, starting 2 October 2023.
Using video to enable meaningful participation of refugees in monitoring, evaluation and learning
Monitoring, evaluation and learning can be an extractive exercise, but participatory video – a set of techniques to involve a community in creating their own film to their stories – can make it an empowering experience, enabling people to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and drive improvements to their situation.
Information as a right: what’s holding us back? Key takeaways on advancing rights-based approaches to communication and participation
Why the concept of ‘information as aid’ must be underpinned by the fundamental rights to information, participation and freedom of expression.
Connecting communities: navigating information gaps and community trust in post-earthquake Türkiye
Key considerations to ensure everyone has access to timely, accurate and trusted information and two-way channels of engagement.