Machine algorithms may amplify existing humanitarian violations.
Tag: technology
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For peacekeeping, there is no escaping the digital revolution and transformation that is heading its way.
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The global submarine cable network needs to be governed and protected, but it also has risks and vulnerabilities, and the potential to spur new forms of tensions and conflicts.
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Peace operations, as well as humanitarian and development actors, are increasingly using technological means, which raises the question of how much of a “human touch” is still essential.
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The strategy offers valuable insights and raises important questions, without clear answers, that speak to core challenges that member states and multilateral organizations will ultimately need to tackle head-on.
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Computer simulation should be seen as a tool. As with every tool, it can only be used efficiently if those using it know how to do so.
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Giulio Coppi, Humanitarian Innovation Fellow at Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, discusses technology and innovation in the humanitarian sector.
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Informal dialogues showed that the candidates want to say as little as possible and risk offending no influential member states as they campaign for the UN’s top job. They are not trying to use social media to make arguments, something the incumbent is judged by many to have done poorly.
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In experimental studies, researchers are harnessing high-resolution satellite imagery and geographic information systems (GIS) to map, measure, and control the spread of mosquitoes that may carry Zika, dengue fever, and other harmful diseases.
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In the ever-escalating compendium of cyber incidents and intrusions, an enormous US government breach–perhaps the largest ever–came to light earlier this month with news of a federal hack affecting “nearly every government agency.”This incident, which exploited a zero-day vulnerability (a previously unknown flaw in software), exposed and put at risk the personal information of four million […]
