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Internews empowers people worldwide with the high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account. Our vision is to unleash human potential everywhere by turning on the bright light of information. For over 40 years, in more than 100 countries, Internews has worked to build healthy media and information environments where they are most needed. We have proudly incubated hundreds of sustainable organizations, bolstered the skills of thousands of media professionals, activists, and citizens, and helped these partners reach millions of people with quality, local information. Formed in 1982, Internews is a global alliance dedicated to supporting independent journalism and ensuring the voices of marginalized and vulnerable communities are heard. The alliance is made up of three core entities: Internews Europe, a registered charity in England and Wales headquartered in London; Internews Network, a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in California; and Internews International, a non-profit association registered in France, headquartered in Paris.

At the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), we coordinate global humanitarian response to save lives, protect people and support communities in crisis. Guided by the Humanitarian Reset, we work with partners in more than 50 countries to make humanitarian action faster, more focused, more efficient and more locally led. Our teams support emergency response alongside national and local frontline responders, helping ensure that aid reaches people most in need. More than 250 million people worldwide need humanitarian assistance and protection. For 87 million of them, there is no time to waste. OCHA brings the humanitarian system together to identify the most critical needs, plan responses and coordinate action. We help make aid predictable, prioritized, principled and efficient. We negotiate humanitarian access, get aid where it is needed, support relief operations, share vital information and speak up for people affected by conflict, climate disasters, disease outbreaks, hunger, displacement and other crises. We raise awareness of humanitarian emergencies, including those that rarely make headlines. We advocate for respect for international humanitarian law and call for the protection of civilians, aid workers and the infrastructure and services people rely on to survive. Accurate data and analysis are at the heart of effective humanitarian action. As the humanitarian system’s information hub, OCHA gathers, analyzes and shares crisis data to guide decisions, coordination, funding and advocacy. Through our humanitarian funds, we power urgent responses and find new ways to fund aid, from acting before disasters strike to putting more resources directly in the hands of frontline responders. Our work is vital, but we can’t do it without your support. Support OCHA’s work and help us reach people in crisis. Donate today: crisisrelief.un.org

Free, collaboratively generated maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work and economic development, especially in places where base map data is often missing, out of date, or rapidly changing. OpenStreetMap is an open data project founded to create a free and open map of the world, built primarily by volunteers surveying with pencil and paper, GPS units or by digitizing aerial imagery and finding and liberating existing public sources of geographic data. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT], a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was launched in 2010 to promote and support the thousands of volunteers and dozens of local groups around the world that work to build OpenStreetMap, with an emphasis on humanitarian mapping to aid disaster relief, preparedness and economic development. In its role organizing crisis response mapping, HOT acts as a bridge between the OpenStreetMap community and traditional humanitarian responders like MSF, the Red Cross, UNOCHA as well as local groups and governments. To further the mission of OpenStreetMap, HOT sponsors and coordinates the development and hosting of several open source software tools specifically for the OpenStreetMap community. We also fund field training and data collection for existing and new OpenStreetMap groups, produce learning and training materials for people doing OpenStreetMap mapping and train skilled mapping coordinators to organize volunteer mappers' efforts in emergency response to crises and disasters. HOT sponsored teams work in countries around the world helping collect geographic data and training and learning from local communities to map information in OpenStreetMap that is important to them. Our goal is to help build self sustaining local groups of motivated and skilled mappers. We are dedicated to applying the principles of open source software and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development and inclusiveness in all of our endeavors.