Ensuring adequate data handling, protection, usage, sharing and storage in peace operations

The technological empowerment of peacekeeping operations raises sensitive questions, including the rights and responsibilities of a foreign entity to generate or collate and analyse data in a third country. Clear rules and procedures regarding the collection, processions and sharing of information are therefore vital to the integrity of peacekeeping operations. When using certain types of communication technology in a conflict environment, it is furthermore important to be aware of the impact of technology on human rights, including issues of privacy of the individual, confidentiality of data or potential discrimination through Artificial Intelligence (AI) supported processes. (Image: iStock | MF3d)

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Ensuring adequate data handling, protection, usage, sharing and storage in peace operations The hope and the hype - humanitarian protection in the digital space

Our lives and what happens in them is no longer limited to the physical environment we live in. Increasingly, what is happening online has repercussions offline and vice versa. Humanitarian protection practitioners need to be present on both fronts, but the question is how to do this and what it means to provide humanitarian protection in the digital space?

| Delphine van Solinge