Bio-briquettes instead of firewood to allow populations to stay safe in conflict areas; smartphones for surveying refugee camps to rethink activities: innovations like these are how MSF adapts to challenging contexts to improve our medical and humanitarian intervention.
Technology has become increasingly important for MSF over the last few years. It is applied in e-health projects such as telemedicine to overcome geographical barriers and to boost the availability and quality of services. Technology is also used to better map often very inaccessible areas through satellite and drone imagery. Beyond technology, experimenting with existing or adapted tools and encouraging the framing of problems to find solutions also helps to better understand and assist populations in need.