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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism
Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.
"The article aims to theorize about critical data studies with Latin America beyond the framework of data colonialism, arguing that the long history of social thought in the region can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the datafication. It discusses views around dependence, oppressions,
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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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Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan’s open government data policy in the 2010s
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 12 pp.
"What kind of “democracy” do new government-led digital initiatives facilitate? This paper discusses the issue by investigating the open government data policy in Taiwan in the 2010s, asking whether the policy encouraged “strong democracy.” Using interviews, written records, and an analysis
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Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications
Big Data & Society (2024), 15 pp.
"The global food system is characterized by market concentration and oligopoly. In our article, we focus on the most powerful input supply and machinery companies and analyze how these firms create value, both economic and otherwise, from big data. In digital capitalism, data is valorized across sec
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Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Over the past decade, China has gradually begun to take a more proactive approach to digital development, passing a range of policies that aim to restructure how data is treated within its national economic system. These policies reflect the construction of a new data ecology in which data is gradu
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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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