Launched from @HHI to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of data + tech during humanitarian and human rights crisis.
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🌟HDX Year in Review for 2021:
-Over 1.3 million unique users
-20 new organizations (298 total)
-2,071 new datasets (18,500 total)
-1.8 million datasets downloaded
❤️Thanks to our community for another great year!
Read more in @JTeran2000's blog⤵️ centre.humdata.org/hdx-year-…
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@Internews @safesisters guide offers a common-sense guide to digital safety for women and girls online in sub-saharan Afric. It’s available in several African languages including Swahili!
#16DaysofActivism
#DigitalResourceShareathon
🔗internews.org/wp-content/upl…
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📢 Data responsibility is a critical issue for the humanitarian system to address.
🆕 Read about system-wide progress on advancing #DataResponsibility in the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022, launched today by the UN and partners.
gho.unocha.org/delivering-be…
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Honored to kickoff the launch of the Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform next week w/ @safiyanoble @nseufot @stevenrenderos @JacquieSMason @CarmenScurato to galvanize action around tech reforms centering civil rights, transparency & privacy. This is big, y’all! RSVP 👇
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Happening tonight! @RonDeibert, director of @citizenlab and author of "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" will give a #LipsetLecture on “Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy” at 6pm EST. @NEDemocracy Sign up to join👇
ned.org/events/eighteenth-an…
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🇺🇳@UNOCHA has an important role to play in supporting the @iascch-recommended actions for data responsibility in humanitarian action.
💡Learn more in the OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines: centre.humdata.org/the-ocha-…
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#BeirutExplosion:
New joint analysis on priority geographic areas and sectors for response, and the main vulnerable groups to support.
In close collaboration with @mapaction @mercycorps @UNOCHA @RedCrossLebanon
➡️acaps.org/special-report/leb…
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Institutional racism in the humanitarian sector is "baked into assumptions and biases about competence and who is superior and inferior." Important analysis by Michael Barnett via @ALNAP
@JeremyKonyndyk @StephKimou @arbiebaguios @SaraPantuliano
alnap.org/blogs/the-humanita…
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"The incident could not have occurred at a worse time and has hit communities who were already suffering from COVID-19 crisis & economic deterioration. Beirut’s port, completely damaged, is vital for food, grains, & fuel that Lebanon imports.” - @SavetheChildren.
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The Lebanese Red Cross is seeking urgent blood donations from all blood types. The open blood transfusion centres are: Tripoli, Jounieh, Antelias, Spears, Zahle, Saida and Nabatieh.
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🚨There's still time to RSVP for our first ever virtual Data Fellows Programme Showcase. Register via the link in the tweet below ⬇️ and we hope to see you this Thursday!
#datafellows #humdata #humtech #predictiveanalytics #datastorytelling #mosaiceffect
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Celebrate Juneteeth with us! Follow this account and these hashtags to learn about a number of amazing Black practitioners in National Security & Foreign Policy!
#NextGenNatSec #DiverseVoices #BlackVoices #BlackNatSec
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#dataprotection, #privacy and #data #ethics are key in the global #humanitarian response to #COVIDー19. The @IASC Sub-Group on Data Responsibility will keep updating this FAQ on Data Responsibility in the response.
data.humdata.org/faq-data-re…
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It’s a weird truth of the moment that bad science is getting wrapped in technology - and the primary people being asked about its efficacy are technologists, whose analysis is largely limited to data and tech harms, not the science or emergency response expertise or harms.
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Holy 1,000,000 times this 👇🏻
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"Can mobile-phone data help curb contagion?" and more in this brilliant episode of @TheEconomist 'Babbage' with @kncukier @larrybrilliant @nuriaoliver #humdata #COVID19
On our “Babbage” science and technology podcast:
- Using cellphone data to fight pandemics
- Can telecommunication networks cope with a world working from home?
- @larrybrilliant, an epidemiologist who helped defeat smallpox, on covid-19
econ.trib.al/0WZIqm8
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🚨 MEDIA ALERT
@antonioguterres @UNReliefChief @DrTedros @unicefchief will virtually launch the #COVID19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan
📆 Wednesday 25 March, 10:00am EST
Tune in here: webtv.un.org/
Journalists send questions now!
➡️ reliefweb.int/node/3572863
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The @HHI @HHI_Signal Signal Code Volumes 1 and 2 can help orgs identify the rights of populations and ethical obligations related to data collection and use during a crisis: hhi.harvard.edu/sites/defaul…
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URGENT- HHI needs your help! PLEASE SHARE our worldwide, multilingual survey. HHI wants to know how you & the rest of the world trust #coronavirus info from different sources🤔🏥 Answers will help strengthen the response to #COVID19 and future responses! buff.ly/39JzJ1z
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People need to understand we are witnessing a "doppler effect" of delayed visibility on real mortality and morbidity from coronavirus in the United States. Doppler effect will result in continued shocks to economic systems as reported cases continue to lag behind actual reality.
