Publications

Reports

Strength in Numbers: A review of NGO coordination in the field, January 2011, ICVA

NGO Information Technology and Requirements Assessment Report, Emergency Capacity Building Project, June 2006

ICT4Peace: the role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict (with Daniel Stauffacher, William Drake and Julia Steinberger), UN ICT Task Force Series 11, November 2005, UN ICT Task Force

The Humanitarian Information Centre Handbook, March 2003, DFID/OCHA Manual

Humanitarian Information Centres: Establishing Coherent Approaches to Field-Based Information Management in Emergencies, March 2001, OCHA Report

Articles and Papers

Technology: bringing solutions or disruptions? Forced Migration Review 38, October 2011

Strength in numbers: catching up on a decade of NGO coordination, Humanitarian Exchange, January 2011

Conclusion, in Peacebuilding in the Information Age: Sifting hype from reality, January 2011

“If all you have is a hammer” – how useful is Humanitarian Crowdsourcing? MobileActive, October 2010

Only Connect: Problem Sciences, Information Systems and Humanitarian Reform, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 1(1), January-March 2009 and Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems: Critical Applications, 2010

Communicating Peace, Online Article, ICT Update, June 2008

Open Source Software for Disaster Management, with Bartel van der Walle and Chamindra de Silva, Commications of the ACM vol 50 no 3, March 2007

The Role of ICT in Crisis Management, with Julia Steinberger, chapter in “Faster and More United? – the debate about Europe’s crisis response capacity“, European Commission, December 2006

Uncrossing Your Wires: investing in technology for emergency response, Monday Developments, August 2006, Interaction

A little learning is a dangerous thing: five years of information management for humanitarian operations, Article, Humanitarian Exchange, Humanitarian Practice Network, April 2006

The Challenge to Peace, Article, October 2006, UN ICT Task Force Journal: WSIS and the Future of ICT, UN ICT Task Force

Changing Technology, Article, Monday Developments, InterAction, September 2006

Information Management and Information Technology Resources for Non-Governmental Organisations, Online Article, NGO Manager, January 2006

Better the Devil We Know: Obstacles and Opportunities in Humanitarian GIS, Paper, January 2006

An Ill Wind? The Role of Accessible ICT following Hurricane Katrina, Online Paper, September 2005

Building Bridges in the Air: Improving community preparedness and response to disasters, Online article, January 2005, Overseas Development Institute

Security: The Common Denominator for Connectivity (pdf file), Discussion Paper, September 2004, ITCM

Three Steps to Computer Virus Protection, June 2004, Aid Workers Exchange, Aid Workers Network

Surviving Droughts and Floods: Stretching the metaphor for humanitarian information management (pdf file), August 2003, PERI Symposium

Towards Interoperability in Crisis Management, Discussion Paper, August 2003, ITCM

New Lamps For Old: the Role of Information Management in Humanitarian Assistance, February 2001, Talkback Vol.3 Issue 1, International Council of Voluntary Agencies

Learning from Kosovo: the HCIC Year One, March 2001, Humanitarian Exchange 18, Humanitarian Practice Network, Overseas Development Institute