Agriculture
February 23, 2024
Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX)
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The Government of Ethiopia
Updated on April 17, 2024
·Created on September 16, 2020
The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open-source platform for sharing data in crisis and humanitarian contexts.
The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open repository where data can be uploaded and shared between organizations. It was designed to provide support in decision making in the context of humanitarian crises.
Target SDGs
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Target Users (Target Impact Group)
NGOs
Distributors / Implementing Organizations
HDX was designed and implemented by OCHA. In 2020, it had contributions from 279 organizations.
Manufacturing/Building Method
HDX is open-source, and is implemented by the use of a software called CKAN for the back-end. All the code can be found on GitHub.
Intellectural Property Type
Open-source
User Provision Model
HDX can be visited
Distributions to Date Status
In August 2020, HDX repository consisted of 17,639 datasets, from 253 locations and 1364 sources.
Design Specifications
HDX intends to aggregate information that is useful in humanitarian contexts, humanitarian data. HDX defines humanitarian data as follows:
Technical Support
Contact for support can be found on their website.
Replacement Components
N/A
Lifecycle
N/A
Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters
To make humanitarian data accessible and easy to use for analysis.
Vetted Performance Status
The UN has claimed that HDX has been a key enabler for aid agencies to be able to compare and contrast various needs crisis contexts and help enhance the responses. In 2015, The New York Times used HDX data to report on the Ebola outbreak, showcasing the efforts to address the outbreak to the global audience.
Safety
More information on data licenses and terms of service.
Complementary Technical Systems
Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL), is a language standard intended to make data interoperable between data sources and organizations. It is used in HDX.
Academic Research and References
Keßler, C., Hendrix, C., 2015, The Humanitarian eXchange Language: Coordinating Disaster Response with Semantic Web Technologies, The Semantic Web for all, 1 Jan. 2015 : 5 – 21.
Compliance with regulations
More information on data licenses and terms of service.
Evaluation methods
Field trials
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