Workshop on ELSI

1. INCORPORATING ETHICAL, LEGAL AND SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE ITRACK
PROJECT: CONSIDERATIONS GOING FORWARD
Workshop on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues
in
Networked Information Exchange for PPDR
May 2017
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 We provide research, risk analysis,
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3. EU funded:
Horizon
2020
12 Partners
from 8 EU
states and
UNWFP
Aim: next
generation
intelligent
tracking
platform
3 years
ITRACK
• In 2000 41 significant attacks on aid workers were recorded
across the globe. By 2014, that number had risen to 190. In
this 15-year period, over 3,000 aid workers have been killed,
injured or kidnapped.
• A novel and innovative approach to tracking and decision-
making is needed. iTRACK will achieve this through an
interdisciplinary, socio-technical approach, which will draw
on the latest advances in sensor development, GIS, security
& privacy, artificial intelligence, information management,
risk analysis, and humanitarian logistics.
• The iTRACK system will be deployed, implemented and
tested in simulations with humanitarian practitioners. Pilot
applications with the World Food Programme and iMMAP in
the on-going conflict disasters in the Middle East.

4. CASE STUDY
It was 10 am in the morning, when the first iTRACK alert came about new attacks to a small town in the Middle
East. The alert was sent from staff working in a hospital in town. Immediately, other civilian responders
working in
the regions received the report, and were advised to take protective measures. At the same time, a
humanitarian
convoy en route to the hospital was automatically informed and re-routed to the next warehouse with free
capacity.
Using the iTRACK devices, control centres could monitor their exact positioning and movements. The iTRACK
intelligent threat prediction provided real-time updates on safe shelter locations, accessible areas and roads.
Using
the iTRACK navigation feature, the responders were safely directed to those places. Meanwhile, the activated
iTRACK sensing devices on the assets and vehicles in town, combined with satellite imagery allowed for
continuous
updates of the threats and risks. Rather than having to rely on reports from different, and unreliable sources,
unfiltered
social media feeds and updates by the armed actors, the iTRACK system provided trusted and direct data
from the ground. An analysis of threat patterns and the damages occurred were used for a rapid assessment of

5. APPROACH
 We will carry out an ethical and privacy impact assessment:
 Interviews with technology partners
 Map information flows on the system architecture
 Map out the risk criteria based on a set of ethical/privacy principles
 Hold a stakeholder workshop (understand risks – identify solutions/safeguards – consideration of
viewpoints – dialogue)
 A review and audit of ethical and privacy assessments by an independent third-party will confer
considerable credibility on any reviews undertaken by individual projects.
 Publish findings

6. KEY QUESTIONS: ETHICS AND DATA PROTECTION & PRIVACY
 Dignity
 Consent
 Avoiding harm
 Safety
 Social solidarity, inclusion and exclusion
 Discrimination and profiling
 Beneficence
 Accessibility
 Sustainability
 Collection limitation
 Data quality
 Use limitation
 Transparency
 Individual participation and access to data
 Anonymity
 Privacy of the person
 Privacy of personal behaviours

7. CONTACT US
 julia.muraszkiewicz@trilateralresearch.com
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