As the world continuously faces humanitarian disasters, there is an ever-increasing need to find ICT-based solutions to overcome complex problems. In other words, though ICTs have changed the lives of people at the operative level, many ICTs' contributions are yet to be uncovered in humanitarian service. Therefore, this book provides new developments, innovations, and research outcomes; case studies and lessons learnt; and other considerations for the creation and deployment of effective ICTs to provide humanitarian services for the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations in the world in order to improve their lives.

Chapter Contents:

• 1.1 Motivation for this book
• 1.2 Overview of chapters
• References

Inspec keywords: distributed databases; cryptography; disasters; emergency management; social aspects of automation; educational technology

Other keywords: information and communication technologies; humanitarian services; ICT

Subjects: Computer-aided instruction; Education and training; Economic, social and political aspects of computing; Data security; Emergency management; Cryptography; Educational administration; Distributed databases; General electrical engineering topics