ABOUT
Humanitarian making is happening.
We want to make it happen everywhere, quickly. We're bringing together a network of stakeholders including individuals, enterprises, nonprofits, universities and technology platforms to make quality items where there is acute need. We are uniquely positioned as a neutral advocate of humanitarian making to connect innovators, incumbents, and everyone in between to build a strong community of people and partnerships that move the humanitarian making ecosystem forward.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to facilitate a responsive hardware development environment for the purposes of designing, testing and producing humanitarian-use 4A hardware built on the principles of locally manufacturable and open industrial design.
OUR MISSION
We harness the power of the network
to make quality items where there
is acute need.
OUR APPROACH
Locally Led
Open Collaboration
Make Value
OUR TEAM
MEMBERS
Our members are the heart of Humanitarian Makers.
We exist and operate because of each of our members vision and efforts.
OUR HISTORY
Field Ready, led by Dr. Eric James, had been an early supporter of Humanitarian Makers (since 2015). Its globally assembled team represents drivers in humanitarian making, pioneering coordinated responsive making efforts in places such as Syria, Jordan, Nepal, Iraq and the Asia-Pacific islands. The following people took this leap of faith in giving their time, energy and ingenuity, since HM’s start, to enable people in crisis to have what they need, when they need it, where they need it.
Alaroub, Hamada
Ali, Rastee
Amireh, Osama
Britton, Ben
Bush, Abi
Butler, Dan
Dotz, Dara
Guidotti, Paige
Hoehne, Georg
James, Eric
James, Laura
Janneh, Eyad
John, Bryn
Johnston, Luke
Lamb, Andrew
Lavdiotis, Tessa
Long, Susan
Lowe, Anna
Mejbel, Layth
Mellors, Mark
Ogunniyi, Ade
Paudel, Bikash
Pradhan, Pradita
Ritzgar, Ravin
Sanfuentes, Vincent
Shamma, Usamah
Thapa, Ram
Van der Vaart, Tom
Wadi, Aziz
Yousif, Saif
In addition to Field Ready, we are grateful for the time and insights shared by many others active in this humanitarian making ecosystem that have been integral to shaping and breathing life into our common vision.