GHTC 2024 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)

The 14th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2024) was held on October 23-26, 2024 at the Inn at Villanova University, Philadelphia.

GHTC is an international flagship conference, focused on bringing together people working on the application of technology to addressing critical issues for the benefit of the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations in the world and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG).

Stakeholders from public and private organizations, education and research institutes, societal and government organizations, and the funding and donor sectors were invited to submit Full Papers (project results) and Project Talks (fieldwork in progress) that share insight, experience, best practice and lessons learned from a research, policy, practitioner and/or community perspective. Submissions by community representatives, practitioners (governmental, for-profit and nonprofit), academics, private sector organizations and policy makers describing intervention design and implementation, field experiences and best practices, case studies, project monitoring and evaluation results, and original research were sought. Of particular interest were works that highlight community engagement and collaboration as well as long-term engagement.

IEEE GHTC 2024 Thematic areas included (but were not limited to):

Good Health and Well Being (SDG3)
Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG7)
Communication/Connectivity in Support of Development
Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery
Technologies that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls (SDG5)
Quality Education (SDG4)
Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG6)
Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG8)
Agriculture and Food Security (SDG2)
Technology Impacts on Societal Evolution

Two types of submissions were invited for presentation at GHTC:

Full Papers: for mature results, tested innovations, or completed projects that should not exceed eight pages.
Oral-Only Project Talks: discussion of fieldwork in progress that address intention, unexpected challenges, unintended outcomes, successes, and failures, described in one or two pages.

The GHTC 2024 Proceedings have been published in IEEE Xplore:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10771501/proceeding

DOI: 10.1109/GHTC62424.2024

Visit GHTC Proceedings Portal here.