{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Global Perspectives on Digital Health","title":"Digital innovation in humanitarian settings","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3564,"description":"How do global organizations built to respond and aid in conflict respond to digital transformation? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) : you’re probably familiar with the work that happens here : emergencies, conflict zones, disasters, working at the last mile in difficult circumstances. How does an organization like even begin to approach “tech innovation” There’s clearly lots of need.What do you prioritize when everyone needs improvements now? PLUS How do you adapt off the shelf LLM models for remote humanitarian contexts?Javier Elkin spent 3 years as Head of Digital Health at ICRC. He set the unit up from scratch. Coming in at a time, post COVID, the opportunities for tech addressing unmet need proliferated. And in parallel trying to create stability with multiple financial crises and organizational challenges.  If you’re in digital health and wrestling with the global scale and local trust and value tradeoffs, have a listen to how an actual global organization dealt with it. Some standouts for me from our convo:We spoke about context : correctness vs being usefulIf you ask a LLM : What do I do for this gunshot or limb trauma, it might be reasonable to say that a response like : call emergency services is universally correct. But in a conflict zone or very rural setting, that has zero value compared to “take two pieces of wood to act as a splint”, or try X to stem blood loss.How did the ICRC digital team work (with partners at EPFL) on their validation and evaluation to get better at these aspects?Your LLM might be technically, and even medically correct, but completely useless on the ground for someone. Want to find out more about the MOOVE initiative? Take me there2. Prioritization based on outcomes, constraints, feasibilityLink to assessment framework3. We get some proper concrete examples that cover:How they used tech to aid a handover to a local healthcare system in Western Nigeria after years of being there. How they used an open source...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hZPIZ-J0wiJx5Bagp4XUMpa5ahoYyL_sqq9C89IZlTc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ODYz/N2YyYzVkYzhjMjY2/YWQyMjc4YmU3MWM0/YWE2NS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}