Can digital innovation in humanitarian aid inadvertently endanger the vulnerable?
In short: As humanitarian organizations adopt drones and biometric IDs, new risks emerge. Tech and human rights ethicist Aarathi Krishnan examines how digitization can expose sensitive data to bad actors and proposes five essential ethical principles for responsible innovation.
Over the last decade, the humanitarian sector has integrated advanced technologies, such as using drones for cargo transport and biometric identification for refugee registration. While these tools improve aid delivery, they also create significant vulnerabilities, particularly regarding the potential for sensitive information to fall into the wrong hands.
Aarathi Krishnan explores these dangers and outlines a framework of five ethical principles designed to guide the development and implementation of humanitarian technology.
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- Also: Aarathi Krishnan: 5 ethical principles for digitizing humanitarian aid | TED Talk
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