THE Port @ World Humanitarian Summit 2016, Istanbul

Head of states, business leaders, scientists and the humanitarian world came together at the 1^st ever United Nations World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) on the 23^rd -24^th May in Istanbul. Invited to show humanitarian innovation, THE Port presented with 5 participants how methods of fundamental science can accelerate humanitarian innovation. In two exhibition booths at the Innovation Marketplace we showed prototypes of THE Port hackathon teams: the e3e Explosion Monitor, the SSRA Better Body Bag, the Medyas.ch Sensor Sock for babies with clubfoot, the next generation of air drop food bags, as well as many machine learning, big data analysis & visualisation, natural language and data processing prototypes. The WHS is an initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon to develop a humanitarian system that was more global, accountable, and robust.

Launch of the Global Humanitarian Lab (GHL)

While in Istanbul, we also attended the launch of the Global Humanitarian Lab (GHL), to which THE Port is a partner. The Global Humanitarian Lab acts both as an incubator to develop ideas into solutions and an accelerator to scale solutions for the humanitarian sector. Read the full story at the GHL website.

THE Port 2016: Call for Challenges & Participants

With over 25 humanitarian technology challenge opportunities presented at the UN Human Rights Council, World Humanitarian Summit, Geneva Health Forum and soon at the ICHEP conference THE Ports shows how High Energy Particle Physics methods can be even more beneficial to society.

We call for technology challenge ideas beneficial to society and participant applications for the 2016 Hackathon (October 14-16). 
 

Applications are open until 15th June!