Hi all -- Is there a protocol to adding someone from off the list to a discussion thread here? This study is fascinating and I mentioned it to a friend who co-founded Flowminder, and I think he'd love to discuss.
Lina On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Sean McDonald <[email protected] > wrote: > I'm excited to present some new research: "Ebola: A Big Data Disaster > <http://cis-india.org/papers/ebola-a-big-data-disaster>," published by > the Center for Internet & Society (with support from the Media Democracy > Fund). It's a look at the way that technology was used during the Ebola > response - with a focus on Call Detail Records, the experimental nature of > data modeling in humanitarian response, and how that likely violates West > Africa's well-developed (but under-implemented) data laws. > > My hope is that it will kick off a larger discussion about the risks > (legal and operational) of digitizing humanitarian response - especially > when it involves the use of large scale, sensitive data like CDRs (all > anonymization and re-identification caveats apply). As practice stands, > international organizations are likely putting themselves and the people > they help at considerable risk, in violation of human rights law, data > protection law, local regulation, and potentially commercial property law > (among other theories of litigation). > > This case study focuses on Liberia, which didn't turn over CDR access - > but many of the same operational considerations and laws apply in Sierra > Leone and Guinea, where several mobile network operators did. > > I'd love any thoughts, connections to people working on these issues, or > critical feedback. > > Best, > Sean > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. > -- -- Lina Srivastava -- twitter <http://twitter.com/lksriv> | linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/in/linasrivastava> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/lina.srivastava> | instagram <http://instagram.com/lksriv/> www.linasrivastava.com www.regardinghumanity.org www.whoisdayanicristal.com
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