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D&D Team awarded ESRC IAA impact grant

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:36:00 GMT

Members of the Data and Displacement team were recently awarded an ESRC IAA impact grant for follow up work on a research training tool. More information on Data Literacies in Displacement will be available soon – watch this space!

New Publication: Data gathering and utilization: humanitarian targeting and ethical issues in northeastern Nigeria

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:50:00 GMT

Data and Displacement team members Olufunke Fayehun (Co-Investigator) , Olayinka Akanle, Omolara Popoola, Ewajesu Okewumi, Funke Williams, Abubakar Adam, Kaka Alhajimai and Olufunto Abimbola just published in Journal of International Humanitarian Action their most recent contribution building on the project's research. They discuss data targeting processes in the humanitarian sector of Northeast Nigeria and the ethical concerns that arise when such data is collected and used to advance understanding and improve humanitarian protection systems.

Read it here

New publication: Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:48:00 GMT

Data and Displacement team members Vicki Squire (Principal Investigator) and Modesta Alozie (Lead Research Fellow) just published in Big Data and Society their most recent contribution building on the project's research. They discuss the role of data in the provision of humanitarian assistance within camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) across north-eastern Nigeria and South Sudan.

Click here to read the full article

Access our final project report and visualisations here

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:47:00 GMT

To access the D&D Final project report click here

To access the D&D Visualisations click here

Co-production workshop with IDPs in Lagos

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 16:36:00 GMT

On 10-11 January 2023 members of the D&D team came together in Lagos to plan and record a clip on data rights. This will be freely accessible when complete – watch this space!

New blog post: Data based humanitarianism in Nigeria and South Sudan

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:02:00 GMT

In December 2022, members of the Data and Displacement team explored barriers that emerge in the context of data-driven approaches to humanitarian protection in Nigeria and South Sudan.

Blog post is available here

Datafication of the Humanitarian Sector: Efficacy and Ethics

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:41:00 GMT

A new policy brief on the Efficacy and Ethics of the Datafication of the Humanitarian Sector based on the findings of the Data and Displacement project was published on November 9th, 2022. It comments on the transitions in the role of data and analysis within humanitarian operations in the past 20 years, with rapid datafication or ‘digital humanitarianism’ since 2010. While this has diversified and improved analysis and decision-making, it has also led to ethical issues and new operational risks around data management. Consequently, the ethical issues and risks of operational data management and the potential harm caused to affected populations has also changed at a similar pace, albeit with less outward attention in comparison to the push for “data enhanced decision-making”.

Click here to download the full Policy Brief (PDF) and know more about the recommendations of the research team.

Data and Displacement Final Project Report Launched!

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:00:00 GMT

The Final project report of the Data and Displacement project will be launched on the 12th of September, 2022 in Geneva. The final report is now avaliable.

Download the full report here

Abuja Disseminaton Event and Policy Launch

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:15:00 GMT

On the 19th of July 2022, we held a dissemination event in Abuja, Nigeria. The event was led by our University of Ibadan partners and we launched our policy brief entitled Data, Displacement and Humanitarian Protection in North Eastern Nigeria. The policy brief highlights how ethical and operational challenges such as personnel and infrastructural gaps undermine ethical and effective data-driven humanitarian protection in North-East Nigeria. The policy brief is available here in both English and Hausa Languages

Project Update: Final PAG Meeting

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 16:45:00 GMT

We held a meeting today with our Practitioner Advisory Group(PAG) members. The objective of our meeting was to update them on our progress since our last meeting in September 2021 and to ask for thier feedback on the dissemination activities and project outputs we are working on. We received really great feedback from them and we look forward to taking thier advise onboard as we move to the final phase of the project.