Data Friendly Space
Karin Maasel is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors at H2H Network since April 2024 and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Data Friendly Space since March 2023. Previously, Karin held the position of Head of the Africa and Emerging Markets Department at the Estonian Centre for International Development from September 2021 to February 2023. Prior roles include Global Grants Advisor at Finn Church Aid, Head of Programs and Compliance and Senior Program Manager at Save the Children Australia, and Strategic Advisor for Major Donor Partnerships at Save the Children Denmark. Additionally, Karin worked as a Humanitarian Advisor at the United Nations in April 2012. Academic qualifications include a Master's degree in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response from The University of Manchester and a Bachelor's degree in International Development with a Minor in International Relations from the University of Leeds.
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Data Friendly Space
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Data Friendly Space (DFS) is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization based in the United States with a presence in Switzerland, Germany and Nepal. DFS’ guiding principle is to improve information management and analysis capacity, tools and processes in the humanitarian and development community to enable better informed and more targeted assistance. DFS focuses on creation of data centric web applications, websites and mobile applications to support humanitarian organizations in extracting actionable insights from their data and execute their missions. In addition to software development and cybersecurity services, DFS also provides a range of analytical services focused on strengthening data collection and analysis capacities in humanitarian emergencies. DFS also focuses on the intersection between data automation processes powered by Artificial Intelligence and human knowledge, and in particular when one can help the other to execute analysis. We have been working with numerous IGOs and international organiaztions based in Geneva, such as the UN (and its various bodies, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNEP, UNFPA), IFRC, DFID, JIPS and IDMC. DFS team is composed of experts from the humanitarian information management and analysis field who specialize in real time secondary data review and development of humanitarian apps that support timely extraction of information from large volumes of unstructured data. DFS staff is closely linked to the DEEP initiative (thedeep.io) and part of the benefits from DFS contracts directly contribute to the maintenance and further development of DEEP.