ACAPS Information Landscape: Humanitarian Crisis Media and Communication Trends

A repository tracking events and trends affecting information handling in humanitarian settings, developed by ACAPS and Internews. It covers information disorders, group vulnerabilities, access to information, and information freedom and security. The dataset is available in PDF and CSV formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Monitor disinformation and misinformation trends based on the described 'information disorders' tracking.
• Assess the safety and dignity of specific groups accessing information based on described tracking of stigma and hate-speech.
• Evaluate telecommunications infrastructure damage and its impact on information access.
• Analyze threats to information freedom based on described tracking of journalist safety, censorship, and communication shutdowns.

Strengths

• Framework developed by a partnership between ACAPS and Internews.
• Covers multiple thematic areas including information disorders, access, and security.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-05-14 09:46:06.344388; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

ACAPS

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 09:46:06.344388.