In October 1996, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) created ReliefWeb as a pioneering humanitarian information portal. Sharon Rusu led the initial project team, which included Craig Duncan as one of the first hires. The project began with a simple list of links and quickly evolved into a comprehensive content-based website. Today, ReliefWeb continues to be owned and operated by OCHA as a specialized digital service. ReliefWeb, with offices in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi, covers a wide range of humanitarian news and information. They focus on global crises, disasters, and emergency situations, providing updates on topics such as conflicts, natural disasters, health emergencies, and refugee crises. The website serves as a hub for situation reports, press releases, maps, infographics, and job postings in the humanitarian sector, and has become an essential resource for humanitarian workers and organizations worldwide. **One interesting fact**: ReliefWeb is notable for its longevity and continuous operation. The website has been updating content daily for over 25 years, starting from manually inputting about 30 documents per day in its early days to now hosting over one million humanitarian reports, making it one of the longest-running and most comprehensive humanitarian information services on the internet .