Is this the most important "pop up" ever?

The endless dusty paddocks and abject misery of Syrian refugee camps are hardly an obvious place for Silicon Valley jargon like "start-up" and "disruption".

A child plays around a temporary refugee camp for displaced Syrians in northern Syria. Credit:AP

But thousands of people displaced by war or natural disaster may soon be relying on a foldable hut invented by two South Australian entrepreneurs, and it's getting global market attention.

Former soldier and UN observer Neale Sutton and businessman Andrew Hamilton's self-designed "Humanihut" was last week plucked from relative obscurity to be on the Disrupt 100 list, an index of the most promising start-ups around the world.