A Do No Harm Framework for ICT4D: Inspiration from SwitchPoint 2018

May 11, 2018The issue of data ethics isn ' t new to international development —but it all feels a little more urgent now. SwitchPoint 2018 was an inspiring, passionate, and delightful indulgence: Spending two days in lush Saxapahaw, North Carolina, thinking about big ideas and learning from leading experts in small group sessions in between performance art and live music shows felt like such a departure from Conference As Usual.I felt space opening up in my brain to start really processing what the speakers were saying —the real act and action of listening versus the usual ruse of secretly responding to emails on my phone while half paying attention and nodding at key pauses.One of the most compelling speakers was  Nathaniel Raymond, the Director of the  Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. His talk ‘Human Freedom in a Post-Normal World,’ was a timely warning on the abuse of data and the importance of strong standards and ethics when implementing digital and data-driven programming.We need to think through a framework for data responsibility 2.0.We must be extra mindful of this in development and humanitarian response, as the populations we serve are particularly vulnerable both in terms of their marginalization, general lack of protections and dearth in  critical digital literacy (though it could be well argued that most global populations are woefully in need of critical digital literacy education, includi...
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