Anri van der Spuy, Unveiling Digital Development Risks: The Uncertain Outcomes of Promoting Digital Technologies in the Guise of Development, 2023/4
In her Ph.D. thesis the author argues that the failure to assume responsibility for defining and managing digital development risks can mean that development beneficiaries become responsible for managing the uncertain outcomes of digital development processes, thus becoming risk beneficiaries.
CHAPTER 5: DIGITAL IDS, RISKS, AND A FISHY NARRATIVE IN AFRICA (pp135), is based on a number of interviews. I was privileged to be among the interviewees.
Ph.D. thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science, December 2023
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Navigating the Digital Frontier: Karl Steinacker’s Insights on the Digitalisation, 2024
Within the sector, the International Civil Society Centre is neither vanguard nor laggard when it comes to digitalisation. The Centre acknowledges there is room for improvement in its digital performance. However, from a modest and realistic perspective, its achievements are remarkable and offer valuable insights for others in the sector.
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AI, big data, and blockchain: Transforming The Social into The Digital? (2023)
Go to page 55 of the Alice Magazin No. 45 to read the article. Here is a direct link to the article. PDF version on request.
Reflections on the use of digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI) in the administration of social welfare systems in the context of a course at Alice-Salomon University for Applied Sciences, Berlin.
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Supporting and Surveilling the Deserving Poor, 2023
Poverty is not a new phenomena, nor the fact that societies tend to identify and support the “deserving poor” only. In this online w/shop Karl Steinacker and Michael Kubach, for the NetHope Global Summit in 2023 in Munich/Germany, set the historical context, while Benjamin Schwarz reports from the digitalization of the Danish welfare state. Astha Kapoor explains how the digitalization of welfare supports works in India. Finally, Minna Ylikanno and Luiz Henrique Alonso de Andrade introduce the outcomes of the pilot project on Universal Basic Income conducted in Finland.
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2x 50 Jahre - Ein Babyboomer erzählt (2023)
Aus der Festschrift “100 Jahre - 100 Geschichten” zum 100. Jubiläum der Lise-Meitner-Schule in Leverkusen, 2023.
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From LogFrames to Logarithms - A Travel Log, 2023
Today, authorities all over the world are experimenting with predictive algorithms. That sounds technical and innocent, as did the LogFrame 30 years ago, but as we dive deeper into the issue, we realise that the real meaning is to implement new-liberal policies on poverty and poor people.
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Aadhaar und die digitale Vision für Indien, 2023
Das Aadhaar-Identifizierungssystem ist das Herz der Vision der indischen Regierung für die Erbringung öffentlicher Dienstleistungen im 21. Jahrhundert. Das System arbeitet effektiv und reibungslos für die meisten der mehr als eine Milliarde Menschen, die sich dafür haben registrieren lassen. Aadhaar gehört zur öffentlichen digitalen Infrastruktur des Landes, die neben dem öffentlichen Sektor auch der Privatwirtschaft zugutekommen soll.
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"Es reicht nicht das Feuilleton der Zeit zu lesen." (2022)
Interview im Rahmen der Berufspraxiswoche 2022 des Fachbereichs Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften der FU Berlin.
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Biometrics and Refugees, 2022
Discussion with Belkis Wille, Human Rights Watch, and Yasar Cohen-Shah, of the Declaration’s podcast team, on refugee registration.
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The Future of Global Mobility, 2022
While Western public debate centres on irregular migration and refugee movements, we really need a debate about multilateral and digital solutions to prevent the global South from being excluded from international travel.
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Die Zukunft der internationalen Mobilität, 2022
Während sich die öffentliche Debatte im Westen auf irreguläre Migration und Flüchtlingsbewegungen konzentriert, brauchen wir in Wahrheit eine Debatte über multilaterale und digitale Mobilitätslösungen, um zu verhindern, dass der globale Süden vom internationalen Reiseverkehr ausgeschlossen wird.
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Data Protection and Biometrics: Scanned by International Aid Organisations, 2021
NGOs and UN agencies have collected sensitive personal data of millions of people in the global South. And as many claim that they are accountable to the people they assist, protect, and seek to empower, the opportunity has come to implement and showcase meaningful accountability: Give those who are marginalised and in need of protection and assistance the digital rights they are entitled to.
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Von internationalen Hilfsorganisationen durchleuchtet, 2021
NGOs und UN-Organisationen sammeln millionenfach sensible persönliche Daten von Menschen im globalen Süden. Dabei ist Vorsicht geboten.
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"Know Your Customer" - Wie Digitalisierung die humanitäre Hilfe verändert, 2021
Die Autoren besprechen die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die einzelnen Hilfsempfänger*innen in einer akuten Notsituation. Wie werden sie identifiziert und sichergestellt, daß Hilfsleistungen nur an eine bestimmte Person oder einen bestimmten Haushalt gehen? Was bedeuten Datenkompetenz, Algorithmen und statistische Modelrechnungen für die Projektplanung und -abwicklung? Ist das Konzept der digitalen Identität die Basis der digitalen Transformation im humanitären Bereich oder lediglich das Einfallstor für privatwirtschaftliche Akteure und/oder Überwachungsinstitutionen, die andere als humanitäre Absichten hegen? Die Autoren versuchen sich an einem Plädoyer, die technologischen Entwicklungen zu verstehen, ihre Relevanz einzuschätzen, ohne aber in dystopischen Determinismus oder Fatalismus zu verfallen. Auch für digitale Abläufe gilt als Minimum: „Do no Harm“.
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Biometric Data and the Taliban: What are the risks? 2021
Interview, jointly given with Katja Lindskov Jacobsen to the New Humanitarian
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Contingency Planning in the Digital Age: Biometric Data of Afghans Must Be Reconsidered, 2021
Joint article with Katja Lindskov Jacobsen on the unintended consequences of biometric registration by humanitarian agencies.
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Global Mobility, 2021
In this podcast, the Global Voices team of the Equanimity Foundation chats with Karl Steinacker on the search for enforceable and consensual rules on migration. This conversation is about bridging the different viewpoints on legitimate migration by actors in the Global North and in the Global South and the need to to develop a set of rules on global mobility. In addition, technology has a key role to play in modernising global mobility.
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The Future of Global Mobility: How Technology can Support Consensual and Rule-based International Mobility, 2021
As global travel begins to open up after the Coronavirus Pandemic, it is crucial to analyze the paradigms of global mobility that govern our world as we enter a new period. Karl Steinacker's nuanced essay draws from a variety of international sources to argue that modern policies, especially those upheld by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations, are technologically outdated and unfit to carry forth the spirit of the Global Compact Agreement. The article then proposes solutions to better the current global system by leveraging the power of technology and the private sector.
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Les Deux Salons: La Mobilité Internationale à l'Ere post-Covid, 2021
Que pense-toi de la mobilité internationale dans l'ère post-Covid-19? Le «Passeport Vaccinal» est-il la solution? Quel salon te conviens le mieux: première ou deuxième classe? La «nouvelle normalité» sera très différente pour les gents du Nord et du Sud de la planète.
Version française de l'article du blog du 30 avril
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