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.
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
To the Cloud: One of the most important step towards the expansion of the program is to develop a strong cloud solution. The software should be easy to deploy and secure.
Scale: As the scope of the project evolves, so does the interest. PRISM needs to evolve into a scalable and reliable solution.
Security: A strong negotiation point with government officials is the security of the data and the platform. The platform needs to evolve into a secure web-app.
Adaptability: PRISM currently has various country specific capabilities. These specificities need to be packaged to ensure that the code is easily adaptable to monitor new areas.
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.
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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