31.5.2017 By Eija Susanna Meriläinen, Doctoral Student The Brexit vote, referendum in Turkey and Trump presidency. The waves of nationalist populism in the global North have awaken fears in the research communities. The repercussions for researchers have in the short-term varied between inconveniencing and deadly. The mobility of European researchers between the U.K. and […]
Monthly Archives: May 2017
On trolling and unlimited data plans – some pros and cons of the internet age
17.5.2017 By Virva Tuomala, Doctoral Student Towards the end of 2015, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi asked the Muslims of the world to join the fight for their cause of world domination. He probably made this request sincerely, hoping Muslims world over would abandon whatever they were doing and grab a torch/pitchfork and head […]
The importance of an Ethics and Privacy Impact Assessment in digital humanitarianism
3.5.2017 By Julia Muraszkiewicz, Research Analyst at Trilateral Research Ltd. Regrettably, loss and harm of humanitarian workers is a prevailing occurrence in the humanitarian conflict zones of today. One does not have to search far to find headlines such as: Six Afghan Red Cross aid workers have been killed in an ambush or Attack […]