Digitally Responsible Aid
Nonprofit Organization Management - San Francisco, California, United States
Digitally Responsible Aid Employees
Digitally Responsible Aid Details
Crisis-affected populations—and the humanitarians who serve them—are facing new, digitally derived threats and vulnerabilities in addition to the conventional human security threats that characterize fragile contexts. A shifting digital threat landscape (surveillance and monitoring, the weaponization of information) and the proliferation of unintended harm resulting from experimental humanitarian information activities are presenting new vulnerabilities for refugees, internally-displaced populations, and other civilian actors affected by complex humanitarian emergencies. To protect against this emerging threat landscape and encourage responsible innovation in the field, practitioners and crisis-affected populations need interdisciplinary, deployable support--what we call Digitally Responsible Aid. Digitally Responsible Aid will operationalize best practices, develop and deploy context-relevant digital security and data protection tools and guidance, and build capacity for digital field security and responsible humanitarian innovation.Digitally Responsible Aid brings well-established operational, information, and network security practices to complex humanitarian contexts in a way tailored to the unique cultural, environmental, and regulatory realities that characterize the humanitarian space. We aim to deliver these capacities with our partner organizations by co-designing, field testing, and brokering usable solutions between stakeholders and experts to respond to challenges at the nexus of digital and human security, and then push for policy and regulation design for this digital era based upon this evidence base.
