ICRC and Brussels Privacy Hub
Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action
Practice handbook
The baseline reference for privacy, protection, and responsible data use in humanitarian settings.
Practice handbook
Early inventory
The Cost of Technology
AI effectiveness, environmental accounting, labour conditions, corporate accountability, and humanitarian tech governance.
Guiding question
What does technology adoption cost the humanitarian sector, and who carries that cost?
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The New Humanitarian reporting and analysis
ReliefWeb watch
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AI effectiveness
Assess where AI improves triage, translation, evidence synthesis, and planning, and where it introduces hallucination, bias, automation complacency, or false precision.
Hypotheses to test
- AI value is strongest where the task is reviewable and weakest where the output becomes an unaudited decision.
- A reliable fallback may matter more than model accuracy in low-resource or high-risk humanitarian workflows.
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Connection cues
auditabilityfallbacksdecision qualityAccessNowAlgorithmWatch
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The Cost of Technology evidence
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AI and Human Rights
Rights research
A source family for rights-based concerns around AI deployment, surveillance, and accountability.
Rights research
AlgorithmWatch
Automating Society
Monitoring report
Useful for comparing public-sector automated decision systems and governance failures beyond the aid sector.
Monitoring report
The New Humanitarian
The hidden costs of humanitarian tech
Reporting stream
A reporting stream for digital identity, surveillance, biometrics, AI, and the political economy of aid technology.
Reporting stream