5 ethical principles for digitizing humanitarian aid | Aarathi Krishnan
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Over the last decade, humanitarian organizations have digitized many of their systems, from registering refugees with biometric IDs to transporting cargo via drones. This has helped deliver aid around the world, but it's also brought new risks to the people it's meant to protect. Tech and human rights ethicist Aarathi Krishnan points to the dangers of digitization -- like sensitive data getting into the hands of the wrong people -- and lays out five ethical principles to help inform humanitarian tech innovation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:06.5 | We often adopt new technology solutions because they seem to simplify our lives or make |
| 0:10.8 | us feel more connected. |
| 0:12.2 | But what happens down the line when we're locked into using certain platforms or tools? |
| 0:18.1 | Tech and human rights ethicists, Arthie Krishnan, makes it her job to look at what's ahead. |
| 0:24.2 | In her talk from Ted Women in 2021, she reminds us that good intentions for technology don't |
| 0:30.1 | necessarily prevent harm. |
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| 1:13.8 | So she alleges, saying up to Fukchi once said that history is full of massive examples |
| 1:21.8 | of harm caused by people with great power who felt that just because they felt themselves |
| 1:29.2 | to have good intentions that they could not cause harm. |
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