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Humanitarian Politics: between State and Corporate Interests, Technology and Law

BOOK LAUNCH & ROUNDTABLE: Humanitarian Politics: between State and Corporate Interests, Technology and Law New technology may offer many opportunities for humanitarian action in the context of crises, ranging from natural disasters to conflict zones, but it also presents a number of challenges. This roundtable engages in a critical inquiry into contemporary humanitarian politics, marked by rapid technological development and corporate interests, as well as humanitarian and diplomatic ambitions and increasing legalization. The panelists reflect on what technology does to the humanitarian enterprise, and the key challenges that emerge. The roundtable serves as a launch of Kristin Bergtora Sandvik’s book Humanitarian Extractivism - The Digital Transformation of Aid. The book focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians and argues that the digital transformation of aid can be seen as a form of humanitarian extractivism. Digital initiatives aimed towards 'fixing' the humanitarian system, making it better and more secure, also create risk and harm for vulnerable individuals and communities. Digital identities – ‘digital bodies’ – are now a prerequisite for receiving aid and protection. At the same time, enormous databases holding ever more humanitarian data radically centralize vulnerability. Introduction by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik University of Oslo and PRIO, Commentators: Abeer Ahmed University of Bergen/CMI and Oumar Ba Cornell University Moderator: Siri Gloppen UiB