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Manual: Periodismo de investigación. Herramientas digitales para la vigilancia de las contrataciones
Lima: Fundación Gustavo Mohme Llona; USAID (2025), 78 pp.
"El objetivo del presente documento es brindar a los periodistas una herramienta práctica para ejercer vigilancia a los procesos de contrataciones públicas. El énfasis está en el trabajo con bases de datos, en tanto la información que se genera como producto de los actos de contratación en los
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Putting data solidarity into practice. A guide for public and private organizations, authorities and policymakers
Geneva: Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab); University of Vienna (2025), 51 pp.
"There is an urgent need for frameworks that prioritize fairness and inclusivity in the digital age. Data solidarity offers such a framework, aiming to achieve a more equitable distribution of benefits and risks in digital practices. Key to this approach is the concept of public value: the societal
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"This toolkit advocates taking a Human Rights-based approach to data governance. This means ensuring that data practices—across the full data lifecycle from collection to (re()use— should respect, protect, and fulfill the rights and freedoms of individuals and communities. This also entails trea
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The politics of data justice: Exit, voice, or rehumanisation?
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"Although many data justice projects envision just datafied societies, their focus on participatory ‘solutions’ to remedy injustice leaves important discussions out. For example, there has been little discussion of the meaning of data justice and its participatory underpinnings in authoritarian
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Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 14 pp.
"Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanit
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Atlas der KI: Die materielle Wahrheit hinter den neuen Datenimperien
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 336 pp.
"Ist Künstliche Intelligenz nur eine weitere Entwicklung der Digitalisierung des Alltags, eine effiziente Software in einer „Cloud“? Die KI-Forscherin Kate Crawford entlarvt diese verharmlosende Vorstellung und beleuchtet die konkreten Auswirkungen der Technologie auf die physische Welt. Ihre R
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Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods
Cambridge (UK); Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press (2025), vii, 258 pp.
"The principal aims of this book are threefold. First, to produce a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) mapping of the conceptual and methodological terrain of Critical Data Studies (CDS). To that end, the book identifies the present state-of-play, providing succinct definitions and descriptions of
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Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This paper investigates open public data and data sharing reforms in Australia (2018–2022) and their potential role in deepening the ‘data divide’. In the contemporary datafied welfare state, open public data and data sharing are increasingly vexed issues in times of data-driven artificial in
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Human Development and the Data Revolution
Deep Insights
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2025), xi, 294 pp.
"Human Development and the Data Revolution tackles a topic that in the age of data and digitalization has become timely in global development: what are the potential uses of large-scale data in the contexts of development, in particular, what techniques, data sources, and possibilities exist for har
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World Bank Open Data: Data 360
Deep Insights
Washington: World Bank (2025)
"Data360 consolidates 300 million data points for more than 200 economies, covering more than 10,000 indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, employment, location, income, education level, and more. It gives users a 360-degree view of development challenges and progress across five focus are
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Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: Articulations and actors in an emerging movement
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Growing awareness of the societal consequences of datafication in recent years has given rise to a new form of civil society engagement called data activism. This article examines the discourse surrounding data activism on the social media platform Twitter. Through a mixed-methods approach combinin
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Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid
Geopolitics (2024), 28 pp.
"When aid professionals adopt high tech pilot projects, ignorance, blind faith, misplaced trust, and authentic expertise all come into play. Based on ethnographic research in Jordan, I examine how a refugee aid organisation produces and applies a blockchain pilot. Innovative pilots help internationa
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An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option
Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.
"The frameworks of cyber, technology and data sovereignty have become some of the most influential alternative technological imaginaries. Developed by states and civil society groups, such frameworks are seducing a broad range of actors seeking to reassert their autonomy and self-determination in re
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The power and limits of data for peace: Improving the EU conflict early warning system for more effective prevention
Luxembourg: European Union Institute for Security Studies (2024), 8 pp.
"The EU’s conflict early warning system is a good example of how to integrate quantitative risk forecasting with traditional diplomatic and intelligence analyses to support the prevention of violent conflict. The system holds important lessons for other multi-method and multi-source early warning
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Creative data justice: A decolonial and indigenous framework to assess creativity and artificial intelligence
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"In the last decade, the Global South has emerged as a significant player in the data economy due to their majority user base, and studying its role is crucial to comprehend the future of AI. As societies grapple with the implications of AI on creative life, there is an opportunity to reevaluate the
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Against decolonial reductionism: The impact of Latin American thinking on the data decolonization project
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 5 pp.
"This essay argues that Latin American scholarship and movement practice are key to understanding the dynamics of the datafied society and countering its inequities. Examining the sources of inspiration of a frontrunner seeking to decolonize the datafied society – the Big Data from the South Initi
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Open Source Investigation Toolkit
Key Guides
Bellingcat (2024)
"More than 80 percent of open source researchers that participated in two Bellingcat surveys indicated that finding the right tools can be challenging. This is where our new Online Investigations Toolkit comes in: it not only helps you discover tools in categories like satellite imagery and maps, so
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Data Solidarity Glossary
Deep Insights
Geneva: Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab) (2024), 54 pp.
"This glossary seeks to clarify key concepts relevant to data solidarity and explain data solidarity’s relationship to other key concepts and instruments in the domain of data governance and data ethics. It complements previous publications on this topic and in particular, the White Paper on Data
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