See also [Engine Room report In the humanitarian sector’s search for efficiency, are we falling short?](https://www.theengineroom.org/in-the-humanitarian-sectors-search-for-efficiency-are-we-falling-short/)
## "RecommendationsThe potential for A/IS to contribute to humanitarian action to save and improve lives should be prioritized for research and development, including by organizing global research challenges, while also building in safeguards to protect the creation, collection, processing, sharing, use, and disposal of information, including data from and about individuals and populations. Specific recommendations include:- Promoting awareness of the vulnerable condition of certain communities around the globe and the need to develop and use A/IS applications for humanitarian purposes.- Elaborating competitions and challenges in high impact conferences and university hackathons to engage both technical and nontechnical communities in the development of A/IS for humanitarian purposes and to address social issues.- Support civil society groups who organize themselves for the purpose of A/IS research and advocacy to develop applications to benefit humanitarian causes.39- Developing and applying ethical standards for the collection, use, sharing, and disposal of data in fragile settings.- Following privacy protection frameworks for pressing humanitarian situations that ensure the most vulnerable are protected.40- Setting up clear ethical frameworks for exceptional use of A/IS technologies in lifesaving humanitarian situations, comparedto "normal" situations.41- Stimulating the development of low-costand open source solutions based on A/ISto address specific humanitarian problems.- Training A/IS experts in humanitarian action and norms, and humanitarian practitionersto catalyze collaboration in designing,piloting, developing, and implementingA/IS technologies for humanitarian purposes. Forging public-private A/IS
participant
we use participant to refer to those choosing to participate in research, those where consent-waivers may be in place or where some stakeholders may fulfil participant-researcher roles (e.g., teachers), and those 'data subjects' whose data is used in research often without their knowledge.
alliances that develop crisis scenarios in advance.- Working on cultural and contextual acceptance of any A/IS introduced during emergencies.- Documenting and developing quantifiable metrics for evaluating the outcomes of humanitarian digital projects, and educating the humanitarian ecosystem on the same.
## Further resources- E. Prestes et al., "The 2016 Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge [Competitions]," in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 23-24, Sept.
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