Published Work
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) A Novel, European Act of Data Governance, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) COVID-19 Lessons: Building Disaster-Ready Technologies, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) Technology Theatre, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin (2020) Institutional Reason/Limitation, The Site Magazine, Provisions no. 1 Available here
McDonald, S. and Wylie, Bianca (2020) Notification: Apps Won’t Contain COVID-19, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) The Digital Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) Coronavirus: A Digital Governance Emergency of International Concern, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) Coronavirus Crisis Pushes States to Quarantine Online Information, Foreign Policy (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2020) Civic Data Trusts, Some Thoughts (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) Data Governance or Your Money Back: A Case for Digital Warranties, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) Owning Intelligence, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) The Fiduciary Supply Chain, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) What Can Data Governance Learn from Humanitarians?, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean, From Space to Supply Chains: A Plan for Humanitarian Data Governance (August 12, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3436179 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3436179
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) What is Stalling Better Data Governance?, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) How Regulations Are Reshaping Digital Companies, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin, (2019) Reclaiming Data Trusts, Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, S. and Wylie, Bianca (2019) Envisioning a Circular Food Economy: Building Confidence in Smart City Policy, The City of Guelph-Wellington Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin (2018) The War-Torn Web, Foreign Policy (online) Available here
McDonald, S. and Wylie, Bianca (2019) Governing a Digital Circular Economy The City of Guelph-Wellington Available here
McDonald, S. And Wylie, Bianca (2018) What is a Data Trust? Center for International Governance Innovation (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin (2018) The Secret Power of Political Data Trusts, Overture Global Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin (2018) Net Neutrality’s End Will Let Power Eat the Internet, Foreign Policy (online) Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin (2018) Artificial Humanitarian Intelligence, Overture Global Available here
McDonald, S., Sandvik K., & Jacobsen, K., (2017) From Principle to Practice: Humanitarian Innovation and Experimentation, Stanford Social Innovation Review (online). Available here
Jacobsen, K., Sandvik, K., & McDonald, S. (2017) Humanitarian Experimentation. Humanitarian Law & Policy (online). Available here
Sandvik, K., Jacobsen, K., & McDonald, S. (2017). Do no harm: A taxonomy of the challenges of humanitarian experimentation. International Review of the Red Cross, 1-26. doi:10.1017/S181638311700042X
McDonald, Sean Martin. (2016) “Ebola: A Big Data Disaster. Privacy, Property, and the Law of Disaster Experimentation.” Inaugural White Paper, Center for Internet & Society. Available here
McDonald, Sean Martin. (2015) Frontline and the Missing Middle Mile. OpenSource.com (online) Available here
Banks, Ken, Sean Martin McDonald, and Florence Scialom. “Mobile Technology and the Last Mile: ‘Reluctant Innovation’ and FrontlineSMS.” Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6, no. 1 (2011): 7–12.
McDonald, Sean Martin. “Collective Representation and the Last Mile (Innovations Case Commentary: Protimos).” Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7, no. 1 (2012): 61–64.
McDonald, Sean Martin. “The Case for mLegal (Innovations Case Narrative: mLegal).” Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6, no. 1 (2011): 41–62.
McDonald, Sean Martin. “The New Newsocracy: The New Solution to Armenia’s Old Media Problems.” Master’s Thesis (2009) Available upon request.
Blog Posts
“Community Data Organizing.” Medium (2018)
“Your Chief Data Governance Officer.” Medium (2018)
“Data Review Boards.” Medium (2018)
“Strava, Contracts, and Our Data Stockholm Syndrome.” Digital Impact (2018)
“Artificial Intelligence has a Hope Problem.” Medium (2017)
“Gawker, Facebook, & Governing Truth.” Medium (2016)
“WhatsApp, Trust, & Trusts.” Medium (2016)
“Data Law’s Radioactive Decay.” Medium (2016)
“Kik, Azer Koculu, npm, & the Law.” Medium (2016)
“Ranking the 6 Problems with ICT4D Product Rankings.” ICTWorks (2016)
“Civic Business,” Medium (2015)
“The Cost of SMS (is a feature, not a bug).” FrontlineSMS (2015)
“Closing a Door to Open a Window.” FrontlineSMS (2014)
“The Data Divide.” FrontlineSMS (2013)
“A Few Words About Problem Solving.” FrontlineSMS (2013)
“The Multi-Platform Rule of Law.” Skoll World Forum (2013)
“Engaging the Audience to Transform the News.” PBS Media Shift (2012)
“Designing Behavior and the Importance of Being Multi-Channel.” FrontlineSMS (2012)
“The Future of Law is no Field of Dreams,” & “Deciding Access- Platforms and Process.” Innovating Justice (2012)
“Law in the Last Mile: The Potential of Mobile Integration to Legal Services.” VoxPoplii (2011)
“FrontlineSMS connects people where the web is out of reach.” Nieman Nieman Lab (2011)
“The Unfortunate Simplicity of Freedom.” Digital Democracy (2010)