Pulse on the Principles

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Pulse on the Principles

The Principles for Digital Development are a set of guidelines meant to help tech-enabled international development programs become more effective and sustainable. “Pulse on the Principles” connects our global network of development and humanitarian practitioners to discuss successes, challenges, and the potential for putting the Digital Principles into practice! Our conversations will cover the intersection of technology and development, examining critical topics such as COVID-19, responsible data, gender and inclusion, and digital literacy. Keep your finger on the Digital Principles’ pulse: visit digitalprinciples.org, SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite podcast app, and leave a 5-star review!

  1. 09/29/2022

    S8 E3: The Future is Now

    The Principles for Digital Development were created over a decade ago as international development and humanitarian practitioners began integrating accessible digital technology in programming. And while the Digital Principles didn’t quite revolutionize the field, their establishment created a common language and vision around how to institutionalize lessons learned. That was in 2016. Fast forward and a lot has changed: digital technology is accessible, commonly adopted into programming, and we are witnessing new kinds of technology emerging that have incredible potential to both help and harm economies, societies, and the way we work and live. In this mini-season, we will look ahead to explore the new challenges that come with new technology and see how global actors and the Digital Principles themselves can evolve to ensure that technology benefits all.

    47 min

  2. 08/17/2022

    S8 E2: Digital Technology and Environmental Sustainability: Is it a match?

    Widespread adoption of digital technology has improved the way we access information, services, and economic opportunities, but at what cost to the environment? Claudine Lim hosts Carlosfelipe Pardo and Angelina Fisher to weigh the tradeoffs on how technology both exacerbates and mitigates the impacts of climate change and the natural environment.

    49 min

  3. 07/27/2022

    Keep Tech in Check: Regulatory Change for Emerging Technologies

    Emerging technologies are introducing a new digital era, driving innovative business and service models. This comes with new pressures for regulators and global actors to balance public interests and fair markets, all while allowing innovative businesses to thrive. Miriam Stankovic (Senior Digital Policy Specialist, DAI) sits with host, Claudine Lim, to explore critical questions and approaches to ensuring equitable and sustainable governance frameworks, protocols, and policy systems.

    32 min

  4. 05/31/2022

    Data Without Borders

    The Digital Principle “Reuse and Improve” is often applied to data: by leveraging existing information, we can drastically reduce operating costs and quickly improve services and systems. On a national level, opening data flows can impact economies by increasing trade volume and productivity while reducing prices for industries that increasingly rely on data. Thus, for any nation participating in the global economy, effective and clear policy on cross-border data flows is necessary. But as we know, there are legitimate concerns around risks to human rights and citizen safety. In this episode, Angelina Fisher (NYU School of Law), Tom Orrell (DataReady), and Chris Calabrese (Microsoft) compare their industry’s innovative approaches to governing the surge in data and designing robust policies that retain a fine balance between the benefits and risks of data flows and governance.

    46 min

  5. 05/16/2022

    Addressing the Cyber in Security

    The use of digital technologies in international development and humanitarian programs to deliver information, services, and assistance has become commonplace, but cybersecurity in these areas have been largely untapped. Without it, ICT becomes a potential new point of failure that could threaten to undo development progress. In this episode, Claudine Lim sits with Melissa Hathaway and Francesca Spidalieri to discuss key takeaways for development and humanitarian practitioners to consider from their recent report "Integrating Cyber Capacity into the Digital Development Agenda." Mark Manantan (Resident Vasey Fellow, Pacific Forum) joins the conversation to share cyber strategies, challenges, and breakthroughs in the Indo-Pacific.

    38 min

  6. 03/23/2022

    When Privacy + Security Isn't Enough: How to Design for Safety

    The Digital Principle, "Address Privacy and Security", is framed around the idea of data and how it’s collected, used, stored, and shared. Recent community discussions have been increasingly focused on how ICT practitioners can better preempt digital harm issues other than data protection. Claudine Lim sits with John Zoltner of Save the Children US, and development consultant researcher, Priscilla Wahome Majani, to explore how digital development stakeholders are collaborating to advance child protection in the digital space.

    36 min

  7. 02/18/2022

    Open Everything: Changing the way we think

    When it comes to “openness” in digital development, one of the most important things to remember, and one of the easiest to forget, is why we’re doing this work in the first place. Connecting the strategy of openness to social impact outcomes, we sit with Dr. Ronda Zelezny-Green (Program Director, Capacity Accelerator Network at DataDotOrg and Digital Principles Advisory Council Member) to discuss the values and challenges of open educational resources. Amandine Le Pape (Co-Founder, Matrix.org) shares examples of how open technology platforms can speed national digital transformation and Samson Goddy (Co-Founder, Open Source Community Africa) gives us a glimpse of the potentials of an open future.

    58 min

  8. 01/31/2022

    Open Source, meet Digital Public Goods

    In the last episode, we discussed ways open source licenses for software can unlock digital cooperation. In this episode, Sarah and Heath explore how that might be able to happen. Lucy Harris (Digital Public Goods Alliance), Bernhard Kowatsch (World Food Program Innovation Accelerator), and Max Mehl (Free Software Foundation Europe’s Public Code program) weigh in on how this concept helps and challenges innovation startups, share how one can apply the “open principle” to their ideas, and set clear definitions and checklists for how to better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals through public goods and open source.

    1h 17m
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The Principles for Digital Development are a set of guidelines meant to help tech-enabled international development programs become more effective and sustainable. “Pulse on the Principles” connects our global network of development and humanitarian practitioners to discuss successes, challenges, and the potential for putting the Digital Principles into practice! Our conversations will cover the intersection of technology and development, examining critical topics such as COVID-19, responsible data, gender and inclusion, and digital literacy. Keep your finger on the Digital Principles’ pulse: visit digitalprinciples.org, SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite podcast app, and leave a 5-star review!

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