Hopeful but Honest: Balancing Humanitarian Tech with Risks and Trade-offs
Constructive guidance on managing digital divide, privacy, bias, and environmental costs while deploying tech for humanitarian goals.
Exploring how technology intersects with humanitarian action, crisis response, conflict zones, and the ethical trade-offs of deploying digital tools in vulnerable contexts.
Constructive guidance on managing digital divide, privacy, bias, and environmental costs while deploying tech for humanitarian goals.
Hopeful examples of technology supporting humanitarian goals - data-driven rights monitoring, remote care, disaster response, and rebuilding after conflict.
Case-driven takeaways from AI for crisis response, supply-chain tracing in reconstruction, and data-based human rights monitoring.
A practical guide to balancing data privacy with transparency, automation with human judgment, and digital dependency with community autonomy in humanitarian work.
How technology is weaponised and repurposed in conflict - from surveillance and bulk data collection to evidence gathering and human rights documentation.
Case-driven analysis of AI failures that hurt vulnerable populations - and the safeguards that would have prevented them.