Mapping Digital Humanitarianism: Confronting Opportunities and Challenge

 Session One: Started with a presentation from Jonathan Gray from KCL- Digital Humanities and Public Data Lab- Data witnessing: Attending to Human Rights situations with Data in Amnesty International ’s decoders Initiative.

Session Two: Data as crisis - the pitfalls of digital humanitarianism by Mirca Madianou from Goldsmiths, University of London.

The convergence of technologies and practises within private and public sectors in response to humanitarian emergencies inclusive of design and digital innovation.

The collection and uses of larger data sets wither its big data or crisis data  and practises of humanitarian officers. There are categories of data - examples like the small data from the business systems or transactional data . Data collections just became easier - Build, collect, analyse - online or offline. The logic of accountability as the power of asymmetries in the humanitarian and interactive technologies will correct power asymmetries. In 2014 it is estimated that Global aid relief economy estimated for the national governments. Digital development is becoming more complex which have very different purpose in order to address different purposes. 

Session Three:  UNSW Project Overview - Fleur Johns and Caroline Compton UNSW Law - 

International Policy - Prototype developed by Pulse Lab Jakarta, Joint venture between the UN development program and the government of Indonesia - funder of the Global Pulse Initiative.

Session Four : Digital Humanitarianism in time of socio-environmental disasters: A View from Brazil. From Ana Camelo and Vitor Ido(FGV Brazil and South centre Geneva)