Humanitarian Accountability of Technology – International Conference Side Event

Humanitarian Accountability of Technology: Applying the Fundamental Principles to new realities

Date: Monday, 28 October
Time: 15:30 – 16:30
Venue: Room E-F (CICG)
Language: English, Spanish, Arabic

GDPC (IFRC/American Red Cross)
ICRC
IFRC
Lebanese Red Cross
Kenya Red Cross and ICHA Lab
Australian Red Cross and Humanitech Lab
Swiss Red Cross
Nepal Red Cross Society

The humanitarian community, broadly, has resourced countless efforts over the past 20 years to usher in digital technology to our humanitarian operations and contexts. Donor agencies, organizational headquarters and tech companies have been committed to transforming humanitarians’ critical analog work and information spaces into digital, including those of the affected and vulnerable communities we serve. Yet, humanitarian agencies have not as rigorously guided tech communities on how to adapt their business for the preservation of our operational methods and approaches which are deeply embedded with our mission checks and balances for achieving  successful humanitarian outcomes.

While exceedingly successful in bringing digital tech into the humanitarian space, we have yet to adequately bring humanitarian accountability to the digital space. This side event will introduce  what works –and what doesn’t– when designing tech for our humanitarian aims while also inviting inputs from governments and partners.

As we invest the same rigor in our adoption of tech as we do to achieve our analog humanitarian aims. While tech creators are trained to determine if a product has met standards for good engineering, it is humanitarians who bear the burden to determine if the process and product are meeting our standards for humanitarian accountability.

In this session we will:

1. Make recommendations on how NS can make better decisions when choosing technology

2. Get input on how NS are currently using and designing technology to support their work; and

3. Ask governments and partners for their support in acheiveing humanitarian accountability of technology.

Humanitarian Accountability of Technology: Join our Coalition

Join our coalition of Red Cross Red Crescent network partners working to bring humanitarian accountability to our work in digital technology.

Name(Required)
Email(Required)
Please let us know what ideas you have or challenges you face when thinking about humanitarian accountability of technology.
Can we contact you to follow up?(Required)

Scroll to Top