Do no harm: Ethical humanitarian innovation and digital bodies

Prosjektet har hatt nok et år preget av COVID-19 og fokusert på Ukraina krigen men også pågående endringer i innovasjons og digitaliseringsstrukturer i det humanitære feltet. Prosjektet har arrangert lukkede seminarer med internasjonale deltagere om humanitær teknologi i Ukraina konflikten. Prosjektleder har arbeidet med boken ‘Humanitarian extractivism’ som tar for seg digitaliseringen av bistand. Boken kommer på Manchester University Press i 2023.

How does innovation in the domain of humanitarian ICTs and digitization shape and challenge humanitarian action and its contribution to the SDGs? The growing import of ICTs and data generate new ethical questions for humanitarians. The use of mobiles, biometric devices, wearables or drones to collect information about beneficiaries, and new partnerships with the private sector, increasingly shape emergency responses. Humanitarians and policy makers have not fully identified or grappled with the emergent ethical challenges with respect to how new technologies produce data about beneficiaries (such as digital templates of fingerprints and the iris, or real-time information about bodily functions) and the distribution of aid (information apps, blockchain, wearables). Challenges arise from technology implementation in emergency contexts, cybersecurity threats, profit motifs, experimental practices and the securitization of humanitarian data. This multi-disciplinary, qualitative project provides a conceptual and empirical basis for addressing these questions, incorporating a responsible research and innovation perspective. The objective is to engage all stakeholders (researchers, policymakers, and operational actors) in a conversation about how ethical humanitarian innovation can contribute to realize the SDGs in an accountable manner. The project is developed around four work packages on: (1) The place of data and digital bodies in humanitarian operations (2) Transformations of aid: market logic and intimate tracking (3) The humanitarian digitization-security nexus (4) Ethical humanitarian innovation: critical lessons for SDGs and policy WP1-3 will produce 7 empirical case studies. Project partners include PRIO, University of Manchester (HCRI), University of Copenhagen and the START Network labs. The project team and advisory board consist of leading humanitarian technology and innovation scholars and practitioners, with broad field and policy experience.

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