TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a principled approach to humanitarian information and communication technology
AU - Cardia, Isabelle Vonèche
AU - Holzer, Adrian
AU - Xu, Ying
AU - Maitland, Carleen
AU - Gillet, Denis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2017/11/16
Y1 - 2017/11/16
N2 - The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. However, the use of new ICT has not yet been adequately accompanied by an analysis of the challenges it represents for the application of the four humanitarian principles, namely humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence. these principles provide the foundations for humanitarian action and are central to establishing and maintaining access to affected people. .is article addresses that issue and provides a design framework to guide humanitarian agencies towards a principled approach to ICT.
AB - The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. However, the use of new ICT has not yet been adequately accompanied by an analysis of the challenges it represents for the application of the four humanitarian principles, namely humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence. these principles provide the foundations for humanitarian action and are central to establishing and maintaining access to affected people. .is article addresses that issue and provides a design framework to guide humanitarian agencies towards a principled approach to ICT.
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U2 - 10.1145/3136560.3136588
DO - 10.1145/3136560.3136588
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85038568572
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2017
Y2 - 16 November 2017 through 19 November 2017
ER -