Modelling Humanitarian Interaction

Modelling Humanitarian Interaction: Exploring the factors that determine humanitarian interaction and the policies that influence them through agent-based modelling. The case of information security.

Mok, Ellen (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)

Nikolic, I. (mentor)
van de Walle, B.A. (mentor)
Pieters, W. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Engineering and Policy Analysis

2018-08-20

Humanitarian assistance is driven by data and information. Through the whole
chain of actions – from early warning systems to evaluation – information
determines priorities, resource allocation, and donors’ willingness to donate.
However, the potential harm that comes with data is often overlooked. Inadequate
data management increases the potential of data to harm the same people
humanitarians are trying to help. The goal of the presented research is to identify
the characteristics and mechanisms that influence humanitarian interaction,
with the aim to find those mechanisms that can influence humanitarians towards
better information security. The most influential characteristics are analysed in
order to determine what is likely to increase information security sector-wide.

Humanitarian interachtion
information security
MAIA

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Student theses

master thesis

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