This workshop presents some of the key findings from the Do No Harm project and invites participants to reflect on the larger issue of how the digital transformation of aid and humanitarian innovation initiatives have challenged the sector – but also contributed to more accountable humanitarian action.
The growing import of ICTs and data, and new partnerships with the private sector, generate new ethical, legal and operational questions for humanitarians. Grappling with challenges arising from technology implementation in emergency contexts, the project Do No Harm: Ethical Humanitarian Innovation and Digital Bodies has investigated cybersecurity threats, profit motifs, experimental practices and the securitization of data in the humanitarian sector.
Registration for this workshop is now closed.
Program
| 10:00–10:15 |
Introduction and welcome |
10:15–10:45 |
From the Critical Humanitarian Technology project to Humanitarian extractivism: Highlight project findings |
| 10:45–12:00 | Looking forward. Papers and discussion Chaired by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Research Director, Peace Research Institute Oslo and discussant Kristoffer Lidén and Ben Hayes, Research Associate, PRIO and Strategy Director, AWO Agency.
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| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00–14:15 | Looking backwards. Papers and discussion Chaired by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and discussant Larissa Fast and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen.
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| 14:15–14:30 | Wrap up |
The workshop is co-hosted by PRIO and the
Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies.
