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    The 'cynical space' where aid, tech, and militaries intersect

    Giulio Coppi, senior humanitarian officer at Access Now, has mapped out the relationships between private technology companies and international humanitarian organizations. He says his findings are alarming.

    By Sara Jerving // 15 February 2024

    “An opaque world, increasingly consolidated in few hands, dealing in the data of the world's most vulnerable and providing fertile ground to greedy data brokers and intermediaries.”

    That’s how Giulio Coppi, senior humanitarian officer at Access Now, describes the landscape surrounding the digital transformation of humanitarian responses.

    He mapped out the relationships between private technology companies and international humanitarian organizations in a new report published on Thursday which he said raises “ample reason for alarm.”  

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      Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.

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