Team
Founder
Gerry is an entrepreneur and innovator. Gerry is also the founder and President of Conflict Dynamics, a not-for-profit organization working in conflict resolution and humanitarian action. Gerry has been working for over 30 years to help people affected by conflicts and crisis, fusing together expertise from medical, engineering and political science fields. His experiences of providing acute medical care to critically ill children in Iraq in 1989/1990 shaped a view of seeking to help those in need in times of crisis. He is a graduate of Trinity College (Dublin) and MIT.
Co-founder
Tarig is an entrepreneur, with experience in strategy, business & research He is Founder of Dalston Consulting Group. Previously he was a Director at Conflict Dynamics International and an advisor to the agricultural consulting firm Badu. He has worked for Crisis UK, the International Crisis Group, the World Bank, and the National Democratic Institute as well as acting as a consultant to businesses in Africa, the Middle East and North America. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Senior Product Manager
Gordon is a civic technology expert with experience in product research, design, and development. While at MIT’s Media Lab he founded Deepstream.tv, a tool for annotating newsworthy live streams, which was used by Univision and NBC News, among others. Gordon previously lived in South Sudan for two years where he was Country Director of Internews which pioneered local media and information initiatives, including building a network of community radio stations.
Research Advisor
Dacia has ten years of experience providing support to organizations and companies in strategic planning, programme development, monitoring and evaluation, grant management, research, business plan development and developing curricula for educational programmes. She has worked with both domestic and international non-profit and/or non-governmental organizations, particularly in community development with indigenous communities in Canada and in peace and stabilization, humanitarian interventions, and education in East Africa.
Refugees, Digital Technology and the Promise of Mutual Aid
"People helping people." It is a simple and intuitive proposition, one that will likely have the familiar ring of a campaign slogan or an organisational mission. It is an ideal for which many organisations working with refugees aspire to but frequently fall short of. Increasingly it does not have to be so.
We live in the midst of a technological revolution that is transforming human relations, connecting and empowering people on a scale and in ways unimaginable only a decade ago, offering new opportunities to solve age-old problems.
Guided by the tools and frameworks of human-centered design, aidx conducted research in Turkey, Sudan and Kenya amongst Syrian, South Sudanese and Somali refugees respectively. Our goal was to better understand the challenges that refugees face in their day to day lives and gain insight into the social innovations and digital tools that help them to overcome these challenges. Our key findings from this research are now available in "The Promise of Mutual Aid: How innovative systems of self-help and emerging digital technologies can provide new solutions for refugees" using the button below.
Photo Gallery
Prototyping in Nairobi April 2018
Articles
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Eight lessons from our experience prototyping products for refugees in Nairobi.
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Notes on adapting design sprint methods outside the US context.
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Notes on adapting design sprint methods outside the US context.
52 Insights
The missed opportunity of building technology that supports mutual aid.
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Insights on reciprocity, size, and types of mutual aid gained by a network graph.
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