@inproceedings{9fb21b60403f4be3a2d9555e0d91f6f0,
title = "Humanitarian effectiveness: Reconsidering the ethics of community engagement and the role of technology",
abstract = "This position paper discusses the ongoing debate on the topic of humanitarian effectiveness and highlights the need to look at the structuring of the humanitarian system from an ethical point of view. The paper makes the argument that any community engagement with the affected population is a matter of ethics and dignity of those needs to be considered as a central focus to the discussion. The paper also discusses how the humanitarian system as a set of technology, tools \& practises focusses on efficiency, and overshadows the issues of care by objectifying and turning the affected population into mere numbers. We discuss that technology and organisations are inter-twined and such a discussion of technology cannot be contemplated without considering the traditional institutional practises as a whole.",
keywords = "Ethics of intercorporeal engagement, Humanitarian effectiveness, World humanitarian summit",
author = "Ajay Kumar and Simeon Vidolov",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference",
publisher = "Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM",
editor = "Pedro Antunes and \{Banuls Silvera\}, \{Victor Amadeo\} and \{Porto de Albuquerque\}, Joao and Moore, \{Kathleen Ann\} and Tapia, \{Andrea H.\}",
booktitle = "ISCRAM 2016 Conference Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management",
note = "13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2016 ; Conference date: 22-05-2016 Through 25-05-2016",
}
