Thrilled to announce the second of our 2024 Early-Career Researcher Prize winners! 🎉 Congratulations to @sofie_hen for her outstanding article: "Humanitarian Hacking", examining how refugee aid meets digital capitalism.
Free to read for the next year! https://t.co/bnXyhWBUW6
What is the problem with 'Tech for Good'? What should tech companies like Google and meta do instead of commodifying compassion? Read this short commentary by me @afejerskov to find out. @CBDScbs @diisdk @AfricaBusPol @MahaRafiAtal@sofie_hen https://t.co/uMWy2LfMuN
Conjuring innovation🪄
Tech pilots aren’t just designed to help people. Regardless of what they achieve, they are valuable products for aid industry actors to promote: https://t.co/R0nw442IFx
^This blog summarises my new research on tech pilots in aid: https://t.co/GLgswV70rS
🗣️Will donation apps revolutionize aid?
The short answer is NO‼️ The long answer is found in @BrandAid_World and my article in the @IAJournal_CH Special Section 'The crisis in the palm of our hand' - just in time to be added to your summer reading list☀️
More info below⬇️
And then there was the superhero version where unaccountable elites sell business solutions to 'save' Congo with Starbucks coffee, militia-proof chocolate bars, and of course, Tom's hideous shoes https://t.co/sGKiBMH46T
Some of you @SASE_Meeting#SASE2024 +know us @CocoResearch have seen how there are some remarkable things going on in the selling of 'helping' in late capitalism. 1st was the GOAT of 'the red pill makes you stronger...just say yes' https://t.co/VXCr82y30p
Humanitære hackathons har ikke ført til udvikling af brugbar teknologi. Men de har fodret en fortælling om tech-virksomheder, som en anden mindre profitorienteret slags virksomhed end de klassiske kapitalistiske virksomheder. @sofie_hen https://t.co/XqQHj6IpuV
Because another border is possible: "Reimagining the Migration Protection System." A @HopeBorder@TempleLaw publication by @AhlamChemlali@nepantlamb @m_balaguera @samloce12 @zachgoodwin19 @BlancaNavGar Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Wanda Quintanilla &Grace Kindeke.
https://t.co/Pfx3ALq0mT
Check out this new study by Henriksen (@CBScph) examining how alignment between humanitarian and business interests is pursued and constructed in refugee-focused cross-sector #partnerships. #refugeecrisis. Read more here: https://t.co/DLdUQq4ucu
This is one of my new publications of which I am most proud, free downloads here-should they run out you are always welcome to DM me. 🙏 @ABudabin@MFOlwig@MahaRafiAtal@sofie_hen @AfricaBusPol Monica Krause, Peter Leys, Mariano Palomino+ Liliano Marcelo https://t.co/ATk9pZ5Wln
What is humanitarian hacking and who does it actually help? I went to two refugee hackathons to find out!
Read more in my new @JRefugeeStudies article on refugees, #hackathons and digital capitalism: https://t.co/DQG5YXrNtp
@diisdk @CBDScbs #TechForGood
My new publication "Treading Water in Transit" is out in @scmrjems! Exploring Ivorian migrant women's navigation in urban Tunis, I challenge conventional notions of 'transit.'
https://t.co/5wfIbswqKg
Can't access it due to the paywall? Drop me your email, and I'll gladly share!