Humanitas Dr Shabah

Source: Journal Métro

This week, HumaniT3D and its inventor, Dr. Abdo Shabah, a 2013 EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal alumnus, were highlighted in an article in Journal Métro, on the eve of a launch that that could greatly improve the deployment of humanitarian aid in crisis situations. HumaniT3D is an application that seeks to bring together, in one application, the collection and sharing of information, management of humanitarian workers and 3D mapping tasks in crisis situations, in refugee camps and on the sites of natural disasters. It should be operational in a few months.

As we have written previously, Dr. Abdo Shabah developed this idea during a humanitarian trip to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, noting how the lack of access to Internet complicated information and resources management. Abdo now estimates that 85% of the application development is completed and it should be usable in less than three months. He also believes that the application could have been very useful for Syrians refugee camps since the application could have replace the lack of Internet access thanks to a system that connects tablets or smart phones of those affiliated. “It creates a network called mesh. As far as 2km from each other, the devices behave among each other as if they were on the Internet,” said Dr. Shabah to Métro.

To learn more about the HumaniT3D application, how it works, its development and funding and how it will help in future crisis situations, read the article in the Journal Métro.