New technologies

At the era of “humanitarian digitisation”, lifting the veil of newness

Applications of digital information communication technologies (ICTs) are now commonplace across the disaster response cycle. But some gaps leave a critical and emerging set of risk factors largely unaddressed in a comprehensive way by the humanitarian sector.

Daniel Scarnecchia - Nathaniel Raymond

Focus

The use of digital tools at large scale: lessons from a health programme in Burkina Faso

Enric Jané - Guillaume Foutry - Simon Sanou

Focus

The arbitration required between possibilities of new technologies and usefulness for populations

Karine Le Roch - Caroline Antoine - Jonathan Bureau - Melchior de Roquemaurel - Myriam Ait-Aissa - Nicolas Dennefeld

Focus

Fostering good practices in the use of information and communications technologies

Maëve de France - Nina-Flore Eissen

Focus

Humanitarian drones: useful tool, toxic image

Michiel Hofman

Editorial

New technologies put to the test of humanitarian ethics

Danielle Tan - Pierre Gallien