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A Deeper Look:

24 Feb 2021

We had initially wanted to call it The Humanitarian along the lines of The Economist, and we added "New" because we felt that there was a whole current of new people, new approaches that are being injected into the way humanitarianism is conducted today that we wanted to be center to the way we covered this sector and this beat. [...] And what I have been hearing from the various op-eds that we've published, from the events that we've hosted, uh, from the people we interview on the podcast and elsewhere is that first we shouldn't expect a really clear, immediate vision on that, that it's unreasonable to expect that that just comes out perfectly clear from the get-go, and that it will take time to figure it out, and that will re. [...] What is the disruption that is going to allow the international community to better manage the mass migration that is, that is occurring? Heba Aly: That is such a difficult question in the current context, because so many countries are feeling threatened by so many things at once that there isn't really the spirit that is needed to shift the game on this. [...] And so, the question is who's going to win out in terms of influence? Will it be the people and the vision that I think many people have of wanting to help each other and being connected and creating a different world, or will it be governments that are much www.verbalink.io Page 10 of 18 A Deeper Look: Confronting dilemmas in humanitarian response February 2021 Patrick Fine, Heba Aly Page 11 of 1. [...] And, an example of that is a project that was launched by the World Bank to predict famine using AI, and what we found in some of our reporting was that the algorithm was picking up some of the bias in the human declarations of famine in the past that was www.verbalink.io Page 11 of 18 A Deeper Look: Confronting dilemmas in humanitarian response February 2021 Patrick Fine, Heba Aly Page 12 of 18 j.

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