Start Network [Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies] [to 13 December 2014]
http://www.start-network.org/news-blog/#.U9U_O7FR98E

Humanitarian interoperability: is humanitarianism coming of age?
December 10, 2014
David Hockaday, Transition Manager
At the heart of the December 2014 UNOCHA global humanitarian policy conference was the concept of “humanitarian interoperability”. It is likely, as with all new buzzwords, that this concept will gather increasing momentum over the next 12 months, as practitioners, policy makers and decision-makers grapple to make sense of this new addition to the humanitarian lexicon…
Central to humanitarian interoperability will be common standards, values and principles, particularly as the currently insular aid system will need to collaborate with the new voices needed to be able to take gains to the necessary scale to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
These normative standards could be the uniting force, which help the aid agencies and private sector, business and commercial organisations find a common ground in the humanitarian endeavour..