Organized by CartONG every two years since 2008, the GeOnG conference gathers humanitarian and development actors and professionals specialized in information management. It addresses issues related to mapping, GIS, mobile data collection & information management in the humanitarian & development sectors, and is designed to allow participants to debate current and future stakes, introduce relevant and innovative solutions and share experience and best practices.
This edition will look at the way information management technologies and practices can genuinely be people-centred, by including the (different) rights of people and communities in all their diversity. What do responsibility and inclusion mean in relation to data? How can these principles be genuinely put into practice? What constraints do humanitarian and development organisations inevitably come up against in aiming for this objective?
What is Groupe URD’s role in all of this?
Groupe URD’s Lisa Daoud was part of committee who chose the conference subjects. She will be facilitating a round table on the use of algorithms in the aid sector. What are algorithms used for ? Are they – and can they be – inclusive ? What critical points need to be kept in mind? 4 experts (Claire Bénard, DataKind; Elizabeth Hendry, CAMEALEON Consortium; Sofia Kyriazi, UNHCR; and FanMan Tsang, CDAC Network) will debate these issues. Participants will be able to learn about this complex subject, its key principles and the possible solutions that exist.