Interesting concept from the World Food Program who looks to use micro-blogging as a major means of information transfer - CipCip, inspired by Twitter, is a micro-blogging platform for humanitarian relief operations. According to the WFP Deliver project, which focuses on the delivery of information:

“Please welcome CipCip (pronounce “TJEEP-TJEEP”, Italian for Twitter) to the DELIVER family”

So how does this differ from Twitter? This statement sheds some light:

“CipCip, is like Twitter, but internal to our organisation. Access is restricted, and new users are added by invite-only at this time.”

And it focuses solely on humanitarian relief messages etc. Restricts the message getting out to the masses, like what Twitter does, and rather makes sure the message stays within the organization - seems to be Twitter with user permissions. And it is being used, according to WFP:

“Already we have had our first user ‘Ciping’ from Maputo, Mozambique. We have live streamed meetings so that we could remain working our desks while one of our team ‘Cip’d’ updates.“

Yet another innovation for the humanitarian domain.