📅 9 – 20 June 2025
Online
Since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the use of digital innovations and new technologies is increased to provide humanitarian assistance. While it shows the prevalence of data revolution in the aid sector, the relationship of humanitarian organisations to innovations is not unprecedented.
The growing involvement of tech companies in global philanthropy has only accelerated this ‘innovation turn’. From crowd-sourced data used in crisis mapping to the expansion of drones to facilitate relief distribution, humanitarian innovations capture a large diversity of digital devices meant to improve needs assessments, relief, and protection during disasters, conflicts, and migration.
Exploring the entanglements between innovation labs, start-ups, and humanitarian governance, this course analyses opportunities and challenges of such innovations beyond tech utopia, to consider ethical as well as privacy and protection issues.
