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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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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Digital Identity and Trust Systems for Africa, 2021
Presentation jointly held with Michael Kubach of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft at the conference on “Fragile Contexts, Digitalisation, Remote Management, Monitoring and Verification” organised by BMZ and KfW. Online, 20 January 2021
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Handling sensitive data in humanitarian action, Panel Discussion at the the 20th Humanitarian Congress, Berlin, 2018
Session in its integrality
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Handling sensitive data in humanitarian action, Panel Discussion at the the 20th Humanitarian Congress, Berlin, 2018
Recap with selected quotes and analysis
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Entretien avec Karl Steinacker Représentant résident du UNHCR au Niger tout à l'heure à mon cabinet, 2016
Facebook post by S.E. Mohamed Bazoum, Ministre D'État,Ministre de l'intérieur et de la sécurité publique du Niger
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WikiLeaks on Eastern Congo, 2008 - 2010
Mbuti suffer in refugee camps (2010)
The Mbuti of eastern Congo are living in desperate conditions, in squalid refugee camps. They appear to be suffering from the effects of the interminable wars in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo more than virtually any other group of people.
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