The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Sciences) Science and Human Rights Coalition organized a 2-day conference on ‘Big Data and Human Rights’ on January 15 and 16 in Washington DC, where Data-Pop Alliance’s co-founders Emmanuel Letouzé and Patrick Vinck (who also serves on AAAS’ Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility) presented their perspectives on this critical yet still … Read More
Patrick Vinck
Co-Founder and Co-Director
Patrick Vinck, PhD, is the co-Founder and co-Director of Data-Pop Alliance; he is the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Director of Research, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His current research examines resilience, peacebuilding, and social cohesion in conflicts and disaster settings, as well as the ethics of data and technology in the field. He is the co-Founder and Director of KoBoToolbox a data collection service. Prior to joining HHI in 2011, he founded the program at the University of California Berkeley’s Human Rights Center.
