The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for humanitarian aid actors to reconsider data collection methods, as old ways of doing business become increasingly obsolete. Although access to information on the affected population is critical now more than ever to support the pandemic response, the limitation of aid workers’ presence in the field imposes hard constraints on relief projects. In this article, we consider how aid actors can use “big data” as a crisis response tool to support humanitarian projects, in cases when the General Data Protection Regulation is applicable. We also provide a framework for examining open-source platforms, and discuss the advantages and privacy challenges of big data.

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COVID-19 时代的人道主义援助：对大数据危机分析和通用数据保护条例的回顾

随着旧的经商方式变得越来越过时，COVID-19 大流行已经敲响了人道主义援助参与者重新考虑数据收集方法的警钟。尽管现在获取有关受影响人口的信息对于支持应对大流行病比以往任何时候都更加重要，但援助人员在现场的存在限制对救济项目施加了严格的限制。在本文中，我们考虑了在适用《通用数据保护条例》的情况下，援助参与者如何使用“大数据”作为危机应对工具来支持人道主义项目。我们还提供了一个检查开源平台的框架，并讨论了大数据的优势和隐私挑战。