New directions in humanitarian governance

Reflections on some of the new directions in humanitarian governance and the ambiguity of some of the principal techniques.

Protecting children’s digital bodies through rights

Children are becoming the objects of a multitude of monitoring devices—what are the possible negative ramifications in low resource contexts and fragile settings?

What can data governance learn from humanitarians?

Over the summer, the World Food Programme (WFP) — the world’s largest humanitarian organisation — got into a pitched standoff with Yemen’s Houthi government over, on the surface, data governance. That standoff stopped food aid to 850,000 people for more than two months during the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

From principle to practice: Humanitarian innovation and experimentation
Humanitarian experimentation
Unpacking the myth of ICT’s protective effect in mass atrocity response
The myth of ICT’s protective effect in mass atrocity response
The whimper, not bang, of humanitarian drones