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Chair Barnaby Willitts-King @barnabywk – Senior Research Fellow, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI Contribution Zoe Hamilton – Insights Manager, GSMA Speakers Mahamud Abdirahman – Director, Business Development and International Relations Division, Telesom Justin Colvard – Country Director, Mercy Corps Haiti Adelina Kamal @AdelinaKamal – Executive Director, ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) Description Digital tools and approaches are at the forefront of global responses to Covid-19, including in humanitarian contexts. While it’s too early to tell whether the initial hype around the potential of digital tools to solve new challenges has lived up to the reality, several initiatives, such as mobile money to deliver cash assistance, have proven their ability to work at scale in humanitarian responses. Yet stubborn ‘digital divides’ between people with and without the means to effectively use these new technologies are widening. Digital interventions also