Information, mobile and networking applications foster information exchange and cooperation in the humanitarian and emergency management fields. This edited book covers developments, innovations, and research outcomes for the creation and deployment of ICT technologies and solutions supporting humanitarian services.

• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Where are the women? How to design information and communications technology to be inclusive of women and girls in humanitarian settings


• Chapter 3: Profound technologies: towards exploring the technological disruption and the challenges for a more humanized and inclusive education


• Chapter 4: New frontiers of human wisdom: information, communication and consciousness empowered decision-making under the broader realm of reality


• Chapter 5: A sustainable knowledge framework for technological advancements in humanitarian assistance


• Chapter 6: ICT for early assessing the disaster amplitude, for relief planning, and for resilience improvement


• Chapter 7: Use cases of blockchain technology for humanitarian engineering


• Chapter 8: Big data-driven disaster resilience


• Chapter 9: Design and development of a rapid damage assessment for Albay elementary schools in the Philippines


• Chapter 10: Technologies for emergency rollout of broadband public protection and disaster relief (BB-PPDR) communications in humanitarian crisis zones


• Chapter 11: Connecting the disconnected: a combination of DTN, CDN, TCP/IP, and OpenFlow approach


• Chapter 12: A framework for developing a smart and adaptive environment for aging population


• Chapter 13: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a mobile game for blind people: toward making mobile fun accessible to everyone


• Chapter 14: Challenges and opportunities of adopting ICTs in the humanitarian sector in Nigeria


• Chapter 15: Deciphering adoption and adaption of ICTs in humanitarian services: the southern African context


• Chapter 16: Conclusions