Dear Readers, The time has come to say goodbye as our blog What The Aid is coming to an end. But let us first recap the last weeks. The main goal of our blog was to raise awareness and encourage you, our readers, to reflect on our leading thread innovation …
The Ukraine crisis following the escalation of the 2014 conflict into a full-scale war stopped the world in its tracks. But as the international organisations and donors poured into the country and the neighbouring host communities, the response has also become a testing ground for the newest use of technology …
As we have already explored in previous posts, the colonial past of the aid sector and the racism that still exists in aid organisations are highly problematic. In this post, I will attempt to dive deeper into the discussion, and link the discussion to relevant concepts and existing academic literature. …
I told them that a refugee is simply someone who is trying to make a home. (JJ Bola, 2018, 2:26) [20] In his poem, JJ Bola pictures refugees as simple and human as in that quote, contrary to how refugees are often represented in on- and offline mainstream media. As …
Achieving strong gender equality outcomes requires adequate, sustained financing in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The international community has long recognized that investing in women-led crisis response and prioritizing gender equality are key to effectively meet humanitarian and recovery needs, and to achieve peace and prosperity1. Additionally, on …
Facial recognition’s history can be traced back to its beginning in the sixties, which continued to develop until the recent research in this field (Libby and Ehrenfeld, 2021). In the seventies, NEC used the technology of facial recognition in Osaka Expo ’70 in Japan and it attracted a huge audience (Gates, 2016) and is still evolving to unknown destinations, like any other new technology it has its share of controversial debates, arguments, and ethical dilemmas.
As I travel across Ukraine guided by the news flowing form the messaging and local online channels, the most prominent example of where ICT contributes to a common good is the app Повітряна тривога (‘Air alert’), which warns the citizens of the upcoming shelling and missile strikes, or even chemical …
“I remember when we first stepped off the plane. Everything was foreign. Unfamiliar. Uninviting. Even the air in my lungs left me short of breath. We came here to find refuge. They called us refugees […]”. (JJ Bola, 2018) JJ Bola came as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the …
Satellite imagery served as military surveillance purposes, but now it serves for several purposes especially scientific research, journalism, and the humanitarian aid and rescue sector among others. Satellite imagery provide a unique space-eye images of locations on earth that can be interpreted to extract and understand data and situations, Artificial intelligence (AI) help to expedite the interpretation and extract further data, and Machine learning (ML) help to develop and further expedite AI’s interpretation. Millions of satellite images are taken daily.
In 2020, Anastasia Reesa Tomkin wrote this text about the white leadership of non profits, in which she states that non profits are over 80% white led. (83% to be exact.) Admittedly, that statistic is two years old by now, but it is hard to imagine that it would drastically …
