Technology and Humanitarian Action: From Digital Promise to Frontline Practice
Channel: UN Humanitarian
Date: 2021-04-30

In this event, co-hosted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and OCHA, speakers discuss the promises and pitfalls of new technologies, and how to realize the ‘digital promise’ for the humanitarian sector.

Featured speakers include:

Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Birgitta Tazelaar, Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Maria Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General and Officer in Charge of the Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology

Sandra Uwantege Hart, Co-Founder and Chief Humanitarian Officer, Emerging Impact

John Frank, Vice President for UN Affairs, Microsoft

Cindy Issac, Deputy Head of Office, Somalia, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs