Anthropologist and PhD Fellow at @diisdk & @CBDScbs. I study humanitarianism, migration and corporate tech responses to refugee crises

Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined October 2019
Thrilled to announce the second of our 2024 Early-Career Researcher Prize winners! 🎉 Congratulations to @sofie_hen for her outstanding article: "Humanitarian Hacking", examining how refugee aid meets digital capitalism. Free to read for the next year! academic.oup.com/jrs/article…
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Conjuring innovation🪄 Tech pilots aren’t just designed to help people. Regardless of what they achieve, they are valuable products for aid industry actors to promote: medium.com/caribou-digital/c… ^This blog summarises my new research on tech pilots in aid: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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🗣️Will donation apps revolutionize aid? The short answer is NO‼️ The long answer is found in @BrandAid_World and my article in the @IAJournal_CH Special Section 'The crisis in the palm of our hand' - just in time to be added to your summer reading list☀️ More info below⬇️
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And then there was the superhero version where unaccountable elites sell business solutions to 'save' Congo with Starbucks coffee, militia-proof chocolate bars, and of course, Tom's hideous shoes lisaannrichey.wixsite.com/ba…
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Some of you @SASE_Meeting #SASE2024 +know us @CocoResearch have seen how there are some remarkable things going on in the selling of 'helping' in late capitalism. 1st was the GOAT of 'the red pill makes you stronger...just say yes' upress.umn.edu/9780816665464…
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Humanitære hackathons har ikke ført til udvikling af brugbar teknologi. Men de har fodret en fortælling om tech-virksomheder, som en anden mindre profitorienteret slags virksomhed end de klassiske kapitalistiske virksomheder. @sofie_hen diis.dk/publikationer/tech-v…
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Because another border is possible: "Reimagining the Migration Protection System." A @HopeBorder @TempleLaw publication by @AhlamChemlali @nepantlamb @m_balaguera @samloce12 @zachgoodwin19 @BlancaNavGar Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Wanda Quintanilla &Grace Kindeke. hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e0…
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Check out this new study by Henriksen (@CBScph) examining how alignment between humanitarian and business interests is pursued and constructed in refugee-focused cross-sector #partnerships. #refugeecrisis. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/000765032311…
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A mystery, truly
Oxfam: Israel is blocking aid to Gaza International Rescue Committee: Israel is blocking aid UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Israel is restricting aid UN Special Rapporteur on right to food: Israel is starving Gaza NYT: Why isn’t aid getting to Gaza?
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My new publication "Treading Water in Transit" is out in @scmrjems! Exploring Ivorian migrant women's navigation in urban Tunis, I challenge conventional notions of 'transit.' tandfonline.com/eprint/GBIER… Can't access it due to the paywall? Drop me your email, and I'll gladly share!
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4 days left to propose a paper for #EASA2024 and to join our panel in Barcelona on contemporary capitalism, datafication and inequality where we'll also adress challenges of doing black box ethnography with our discussant @MoisesKopper easaonline.org/conferences/e…
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#GAZA At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital.
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The level of humanitarian assistance that has been allowed into Gaza up to this point is completely inadequate. I reiterate my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire & for unimpeded access to be granted, consistently, safely & to scale.
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Join us @diisdk today for the seminar on data-driven humanitarian responses or join the livestream diis.dk/en/event/data-extrac…. It's org. by @SarahSeddig and is first of 3 in the #DIISTECH seminar series "Data Extractivism and Global Inequality"
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Gode perspektiver på mulighederne for at bruge #AI i #dkaid i denne artikel. Fra fundraising til strategi og aktiviteter ude i verden kan det give værdi men der er mange faldgruber og etiske dilemmaer. Vi diskuterer nogle af dem på mandag på @diisdk – at Ethiopia
Jeg har talt med @Altingetdk om kunstig intelligens⤵️ NGO’er og medlemsorganisationer, der forstår at anvende AI i deres indsamlingsarbejde vil kunne skabe større impact for den sag, de er sat i verden for. 🤖 #dkaid altinget.dk/civilsamfundetsv…
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I am truly happy to see @NThylstrup and my article 'Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling' out in brilliant @JCultEcon. The article is on the use of open source (OS) ML modelling platforms and data repositories in finance (1/7)
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Super excited to kick off a cluster of episodes for @AntiDystopians with the indomitable @DocMattMoudi to discuss the Amnesty International report about facial recognition tech in Palestine. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/0Fx…
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El jefe de @OpenAI quiere ayudarnos a demostrar que somos humanos a cambio de ayudarle a construir la mayor base de datos biométrica del mundo. Te doy tres buenas razones para no hacerlo. Also starring: @sofie_hen @a_bacci y @ellajakubowska1 #Worldcoin elpais.com/ideas/2023-08-05/…
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