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Launched from @HHI to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of data + tech during humanitarian and human rights crisis.

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Joined February 2012
Website status: running updates, reorganizing content, chasing ferrets out of cupboards. We'll be back online soon.
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There’s only a couple of seats left in our winter course on Humanitarian Geospatial Analytics + Tech! Don’t miss out —> HHI.Harvard.edu/hgtw
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We were going to share a real article entitled "Six Hegelian Theses about Technology," but it's Friday. Here's a cat instead.
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Civil society orgs - whether international or hyper-local - need comprehensive, digital-inclusive security. @levjoy & Katie Gillum lay out org responsibilities in @SSIReview --> buff.ly/2K3sWnd
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@agb4equity describes the "Curb Cut Effect" of how benefits designed for vulnerable groups often benefit society as a whole for @SSIReview --> buff.ly/2qCbVay
Advanced AI software was widely rolled out in major US cities by a leading retailer. Nope, it wasn't Apple. It was Rite-Aid. Want to guess which neighborhoods got its facial recognition tech? buff.ly/3hOkmbK
ICYMI: @hrw's Josh Lyons has led some of the most influential human rights and civilian protection work via geospatial imagery analysis. See a little of how he uses fusion analysis to do it --> buff.ly/3iwkqNB via @NPR
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idk what you're doing this weekend, we're reading Kristin Bergtora Sandvik's article on "Humanitarian Wearables: Digital Bodies, Experimentation and Ethics" --> buff.ly/30GNlbV