Digital Humanitarianism in Crisis – Lessons from UNRWA

One particularly striking moment recounted how UNRWA staff smuggled vital paper records (documents confirming families as descendants of those displaced in 1948) out of their offices just days before the buildings were destroyed. Those records have since been digitised. Without them, many people’s refugee status, and with it their eligibility for aid, would have been thrown into doubt. For all its vulnerabilities, digitised data can better survive displacement.

Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)