NetHope, Inc.
Organization Details
NetHope, a consortium of 66 leading global nonprofits representing over 60% of the world's aid funding delivered through NGOs annually. NetHope partners with over 50 major technology companies and international funding institutions to design, fund, implement, adapt, and scale innovative approaches to solve some of the world’s most complex humanitarian, development, and conservation challenges. NetHope has an over 20-year history of training communities in the use of internet and communications equipment to help them be more resilient in the face of disasters, including by partnering with organizations such as Internet Society Foundation, Cisco, ITU, Facebook, Google. NetHope Board is currently implementing our new strategy which gives the organization direction from 2024 to 2030. NetHope will be aiming to bridge the new digital divides: Digital Skills & Leadership, Digital Inclusion, Digital Protection, Digital Transformation & Innovation, Digital for Climate Adaptation & Resilience.
Impact Story
NetHope has responded to emergencies around the world, including natural disasters, mass human migration, and myriad refugee crises. A NetHope response can include connectivity in refugee camps and along migration routes; managed laptops to aid refugee resettlement; and through crisis informatics and data visualization to equip aid agencies in emergency response. In recent years, NetHope has responded to emergencies such as in Türkiye, the invasion of Ukraine, and Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. NetHope set up complete networks that ensured connectivity for tens of thousands of people. The networks serve peoples’ needs for months, and then are handed over to NetHope Member organizations or local NGOs for long- term use and maintenance, thereby providing sustainable solutions for recovery and resilience.
NetHope’s Climate Intersections program aims to reduce the impact of climate change on vulnerable people through digital technologies by focusing on increasing resiliency with access to early warning systems, building climate data skills of nonprofits and local communities, and amplifying and integrating community voices, experiences, and needs. NetHope’s Digital Protection program seeks to preserve program continuity for the 1.2 billion vulnerable people that NetHope Members serve. Over the next five years, NetHope’s vision is for Members to improve their capacity to address information security deficits, increase their qualified technical staff, and make use of partner offers and threat landscape insights. Each year, NetHope Members convene, along with corporate partners and supporters, for a Global Summit. The NetHope Global Summit convened in Munich, Germany and virtually in October 2023 demonstrated the value of collaboration and engagement in bringing together NetHope Members, Partners, and other stakeholders to address how to better use technology to make collective and impactful progress against the world’s most pressing challenges.