How might emerging technology strengthen urban resilience?

Some 35 people, including technologists, humanitarians, journalists and researchers, gathered on 3 July at the head office of the GSMA (the association of mobile network operators) to discuss how emerging technologies might strengthen urban resilience. The session was part of an ongoing series of roundtable discussions organised to challenge the Red Cross/Red Crescent and its collaborators to think differently about the humanitarian applications of technology. Rather than a focus on how humanitarian organisations themselves can adopt and adapt new technologies for their work, the Red Cross is looking to strengthen the resilience of urban communities through consumer technologies, including solutions that are (or will become) directly accessible to individuals.