{"id":1362,"date":"2018-10-02T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:59:36","slug":"watch-live-handling-sensitive-data-in-humanitarian-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/watch-live-handling-sensitive-data-in-humanitarian-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling sensitive data in humanitarian action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/42992887_2662195354005468_4759781241027297280_o-720x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/42992887_2662195354005468_4759781241027297280_o-720x240.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/42992887_2662195354005468_4759781241027297280_o-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/42992887_2662195354005468_4759781241027297280_o-1360x453.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/42992887_2662195354005468_4759781241027297280_o-1080x360.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/42992887_2662195354005468_4759781241027297280_o.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On 4 &#8211; 5 October 2018, the 20th Humanitarian Congress Berlin gathered to discuss the current political trends and their implications for the most vulnerable, the people at the core of humanitarian work.\u00a0The conference addressed the major issues and challenges confronting humanitarian action and explored how we can move the focus of attention back to the people and advocate for human dignity.<\/p>\n<p>The session <strong>&#8220;Handling sensitive data in humanitarian action&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0specifically focused on data collection and analysis which has created great opportunities for humanitarian actors to deliver more effective aid\u00a0to\u00a0vulnerable populations. As humanitarian crises grow, so does\u00a0the\u00a0number of\u00a0personal data sets that are being collected. This opens up serious concerns about breaches of platforms and networks, weaponisation of humanitarian data to aid\u00a0attacks on vulnerable populations and exploitation of humanitarian systems.<\/p>\n<p>What are the key professional and ethical\u00a0dilemmas involved in the collection of data from vulnerable populations?\u00a0How can we make sure that we are using data safely and ethically?<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PPVDPGm64MQ\">watch the session here<\/a>\u00a0or read the recap with selected quotes and analysis on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/feature\/2018\/10\/17\/do-no-digital-harm\"> irinnews.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed it, you can find here the link to watch the session &#8220;Handling sensitive data in humanitarian action&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","category-digital-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}