Unsolicited Goods Donations, a second tier disaster.
Channel: GOODdler
Date: 2017-11-23

Why do goods you send to disaster areas cause more harm than good? 

A powerful presentation by Dr. Miguel Jaller an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis (UC-Davis) gives you an answer to this question. 

This is an information that will shock you and make you understand what not to do after you hear about the next disaster. Dr. Jaller’s research interests are in the areas of sustainable freight transportation systems, operations research, modeling, humanitarian logistics, supply chain management, and disaster response logistics. In the areas of humanitarian and disaster response logistics, he has participated in research and/or fieldwork after major recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Port-au-Prince earthquake, Japan’s cascading disasters, Chile’s earthquake and Valparaiso fires, the Colombian floods, and Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, among others. His work ranges from characterizing formal and emergent supply chains active in disaster relief operations to the development of mathematical models and simulation tools to assess the performance of different disaster logistics and risk management policies. 

A conversation with Brent Phillips, a Tech-for-Good Project Manager, former United Nations staff member and volunteer humanitarian relief worker who first got involved in humanitarian operations via a Stanford based student group during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, revealed the difficulties of Humanitarian logistics, especially in the area of data sharing. Lack of valuable data that can be shared across sectors is one of the reasons the system is not as efficient as it could be. Brent is an expert in humanitarian crowdfunding and his interests center around leveraging technology, open data sharing, and artificial intelligence to improve humanitarian financing.

Panel discussion (Humanitarian Data, Humanitarian Logistics). 
Brent Phillips, Humanitarian AI; 
Miguel Jaller, Professor, UC Davis
Moderator: Galina Fedorova, Gooddler Foundation

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