On July 16, as part of the Mobile Economy Project, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a discussion on mobile technology and its evolving role in disaster and public safety.  Read the related paper here: http://goo.gl/puXmU  

The International Federations community-based early-recovery programme has supported tens of thousands of quake survivors to take control of their own recovery. With support from trained Red Cross volunteers and students from local universities, affe...

(Harare, November 19, 2013) — The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 people and sickened 100,000 more, the cond...