High Tech Humanitarians: Drones Come to the World Food Program

CBS News highlights the use of drone technology at the United Nation's World Food Program. "Enrica Porcari, head of WFP's Technology Division told CBS News that the use of drones in humanitarian responses is groundbreaking because 'it could reduce humanitarian response time from days to hours to even minutes and make delivery of assistance more efficient, accurate and cost-effective.' 'Drones can allow humanitarian agencies to mitigate risks before they turn to disasters,'Porcari said. The example she gave was Mozambique, where the WFP-supplied drones were able to send data to analyze flood-prone areas and allowed the government's disaster management agency to move people in areas that will be affected by the floods before it actually reached them, greatly reducing potential loss of life.​"

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