DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESILIENCE SUMMARY FINDINGS

This report, developed by FHI 360 and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, provides an inventory and summary of digital technologies used to enhance resilience, primarily in Asia. It details a wide array of tools—ranging from mobile apps and IoT sensors to big data analytics and geospatial mapping—designed to support disaster preparedness, emergency response, and long-term livelihood stability for vulnerable populations.

• The inventory was populated through a crowdsourced call for submissions in March 2017, resulting in more than 125 submissions, which were then filtered for those with clear resilience relevance.
• A significant number of the documented technologies focus on the 'pro-poor' agenda or seek to empower impoverished populations, as indicated by 117 entries answering 'Yes' to this focus.
• Digital tools for resilience are frequently deployed at the community level, though they also scale to individuals, families, businesses, and governments.
• The 510 - Data Initiative by Netherlands Red Cross uses a Community Risk Assessment tool and a Priority Index model to predict post-typhoon priority areas within 12 hours, significantly faster than previous methods.
• The aWhere Agriculture Intelligence Platform uses big data and satellite data to improve smallholder farm efficiency; in Kenya's iShamba project, users experienced a 50% yield increase and an 80% output increase.
• The BluPoint technology provides solar-powered, portable intranet hubs that deliver up to 4 terabytes of curated digital content to off-grid communities via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM Radio.
• The Cadasta Platform uses GPS-enabled smartphones and tablets to document land and resource rights, which has been used by the non-profit Uttaran in Bangladesh to document the land rights of more than 13,000 families.
• The 'Kilkari' mobile health programme in India, designed by BBC Media Action, provides audio-based maternal and child health messages to nearly 10 million new and expecting mothers.
• The 'Think Hazard!' tool, developed by the GFDRR Innovation Lab, provides hazard levels for 11 different hazards globally and has been viewed by over 14,000 users in 191 countries.
• The Echo platform uses SMS, USSD, and IVR to enable real-time monitoring and communication; in Malawi, it is used by UNICEF to track flood response reporting from teachers via customized dashboards.
• The 'eKrishok' mobile app and web solution in Bangladesh and Kenya provides extension services and business planning for farmers, reaching over 500,000 users.
• The 'm-Health Real-Time Biosurveillance Program' in India and Sri Lanka reduced the time for outbreak detection and alerting from two-to-three weeks down to a single day.
• The 'PetaBencana.id' platform in Indonesia uses social media as a sensor to monitor flood events in three megacities (Greater Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bandung), serving over 50 million residents.
• The 'mKRISHI®' platform by Tata Consultancy Services in India has reported an average increase in yield of 48% and an average increase in profitability of 45% for its users.
• The 'ColdTrace' system by Nexleaf Analytics uses wireless remote temperature monitoring to protect vaccines in rural clinics, currently protecting vaccines for more than 6.1 million babies born each year.
• The 'Sumbawa Loan Product' by Mercy Corps in Indonesia combines a loan for agricultural inputs with weather index-based insurance to help smallholder farmers recover costs from extreme drought and cyclones.
• The 'VAMPIRE/PRISM' system by the World Food Programme and Pulse Lab Jakarta fuses satellite data and government reports to provide near real-time visualizations of disaster-affected areas in Cambodia and Indonesia.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2017). DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESILIENCE SUMMARY FINDINGS. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/digitaltechnologiesforresilienceinventory_may2017.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESILIENCE SUMMARY FINDINGS. 2017. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/digitaltechnologiesforresilienceinventory_may2017.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2017digital, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESILIENCE SUMMARY FINDINGS}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2017}, month = may, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/digitaltechnologiesforresilienceinventory_may2017.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }