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SUMMARY:Data Driven Do No Harm: Lessons from the Field for Designing Open 
 Source Tools in Fragile Settings - Nathan Coyle\, Michael Mürling
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DESCRIPTION:This workshop starts with the people already doing this work. 
 In a survey of 211 NGO and international organisation staff for PeaceTech 
 in Practice\, 70% said tech experts do not understand the real needs of pe
 ople working in conflict areas. This is a design problem\, not just a poli
 cy issue. The people who build humanitarian and peace technology are rarel
 y the ones who have to use it during a crisis\, and the tools that result 
 often do not match conditions in the field: low connectivity\, old hardwar
 e\, no maintenance budget. The same pattern shows up in who controls the A
 I infrastructure these tools rely on. More on that in the session. Open so
 urce has real potential here. It removes licensing costs that shut organis
 ations out and can be built for low tech\, low connectivity environments. 
 But that only works if people using these tools are listened to when they 
 are designed. Our data shows they currently are not.\n\n"Do No Harm" is a 
 well established principle in peacebuilding\, but it is rarely applied to 
 open source design decisions. This workshop draws on the work of the Peace
 Tech Alliance\, a nonprofit Austrian network of peace organisations\, tech
 nologists and universities. In groups\, using sticky notes\, participants 
 map where Do No Harm applies to open source tools\, how it could be measur
 ed\, and where the current gaps are. The findings are brought together and
  shared after the conference.
LOCATION:Workshops Room 2
URL:https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/G9LHUF
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