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World Food Programme - PRISM #10

Open ericboucher opened 5 years ago

ericboucher commented 5 years ago

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

Over the past few years, WFP country offices in the Asian region have implemented technology solutions to monitor climate-driven natural hazards and food and nutrition insecurity in order to provide decision-makers with the most up to date information possible. Through homegrown technology innovation projects, WFP’s country offices in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia, have built platforms to monitor various aspects of food insecurity, including an increased ability to monitor climate-driven hazards through the use of remote-sensing data, and utilization of mobile phones to capture information on the ground and aggregate it for operations decision support.

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Core Challenge

While WFP has created platforms which have attracted significant support and have been deployed to governments, the organization does not have sufficient in-house software development skills available to integrate and scale these initiatives to the desired level. WFP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific seeks to take the lessons learned and invest in a region-wide solution which can be delivered to governments and partners to mitigate the risks of climate-driven disasters in the region. The effort to centralize all the different platforms into one is called PRISM.

Projects

Impact

If successful, this project will enable WFP to greatly accelerate the deployment of PRISM and equip government official and regional country offices with advanced tools to monitor climate-driven natural hazards.

Core Skills Needed

Cloud Architecture, Project Management, Python. Docker.

Current Tech Stack

Project contact Amit Wadhwa, Regional Manager - Remote Sensing Technology for Early Warning / Emergency Response

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