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Evidence library / Making AI Useful in Humanitarian Response
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Annual innovation funding can produce applications without sustaining common foundations.

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Zineb BhabyAI Lead · Norwegian Refugee Council
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Zineb BhabyAI Lead · Norwegian Refugee Council

Annual innovation funding can produce applications without sustaining common foundations.

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Attributed contributors: Zineb Bhaby. “Annual innovation funding can produce applications without sustaining common foundations..” Making AI Useful in Humanitarian Response. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 7:04–7:59. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-be36d9c2aaa1

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Annual innovation funding can produce applications without sustaining common foundations.

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Zineb BhabyAI Lead · Norwegian Refugee Council

Proposed mechanism: Short funding cycles favour visible demos over maintained sector assets.

Conditions: Longer-term funding for foundations.

Limit: No portfolio-level evidence provided.

funding horizonmaintenanceshared infrastructure

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