Research + Writing
You can find a complete list of my writing here.
Equity, Duty, and Digital
Governance Design
Data Governance’s New Clothes CIGI 2021
Designing digital services for equitable access Brookings Institute 2021
Our (Mis)Represented Data Rights CIGI 2021
Impunity passports: Governing Immunity’s Impact on Rights CIGI 2021
Technology Theatre CIGI Online 2020
Technology theatre and seizure Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives Meatspace Press 2020
CounterFACCTual: How FACCT Undermines its Organizing Principles Association of Computer and Machine Learning 2022
Data Trusts + Digital Fiduciaries
Toward (a) Civic Trust Medium 2015
The Civic Trust Medium 2015
WhatsApp, Trust, and Trusts 2016
Data Review Boards Medium 2018
Community Data Organizing Medium 2018
What is a Data Trust? CIGI Online 2018
Civic Data Trusts Some Thoughts 2019
Reclaiming Data Trusts CIGI Online 2019
The Fiduciary Supply Chain CIGI Online 2019
Digital Content Governance and Data Trusts Government of Canada 2020 (and in French)
A Fiduciary Approach to Children’s Data Governance UNICEF 2021
On Forging a Path to Digital Rights CIGI Online 2022
Digital Governance + DigitalPolitik
The Unfortunate Simplicity of Freedom Digital Democracy 2011
The War-Torn Web Foreign Policy 2018
The Secret Power of Political Data Trusts Overture 2018
Coronavirus: A Digital Governance Emergency of International Concern CIGI Online 2020
How Regulations are Re-Shaping Digital Companies CIGI Online 2019
Coronavirus Crisis Pushes States to Quarantine Online Information Foreign Policy 2020
A Novel, European Act of Data Governance CIGI Online 2020
Digital Sovereignty and it’s Discontents Geopolitics Journal 2022
Digital Experimentation, Humanitarian Data Governance + Due Process
Ebola: A Big Data Disaster - Privacy, Property, and the Law of Disaster Experimentation Centre for Internet & Society 2016
Do No Harm: A Taxonomy of Challenges of Humanitarian Experimentation The Review of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent 2017 (co-authored with Drs. Kristin Sandvik and Katja Jacobsen)
From Principle to Practice: Humanitarian Innovation and Experimentation Stanford Social Innovation Review 2017 (co-authored with Drs. Kristin Sandvik and Katja Jacobsen)
From Space to Supply Chains: A Plan for Humanitarian Data Governance Self-Published (support from PRIO) 2019
Artificial Humanitarian Intelligence Overture Global 2019
What Can Data Governance Learn from Humanitarians? CIGI Online 2019
COVID-19 Lessons: Building Disaster-Ready Technologies CIGI Online 2020
A Digital Neutrality of Commission Medium 2022
A humanitarian duty to digital integrity ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog 2022
Digital Contact Tracing + Policy
(art by Ben Giles)
The Digital Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19, CIGI Online 2020
No, we don’t need an app for this, The New Humanitarian 2020
Contact-tracing apps are political Techstream, Brookings Institute 2020
Hard questions for policy-makers on digital contact tracing First Policy Response 2020 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie)
Notification: Apps won’t contain COVID-19 CIGI Online 2020 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie)
Building a Mult-Step Plan for Canada’s Long Road Ahead Medium 2020 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie)
Post-mortem needed on problems with COVID Alert app Policy Options 2022 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie)
Access to Justice, Equity + LegalTech
The Case for mLegal Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6, no. 1 (2011): 41–62
Law in the Last-Mile: The Case for Mobile Integration into Legal Services VoxPopLii (2011)
Collective Representation and the Last Mile Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7, no. 1 (2012): 61–64
The Multi-Platform Rule of Law Skoll World Forum 2013
Running an Open Source, Last-Mile, Messaging Technology Business
Mobile Technology and the Last-Mile Innovations: Technology, Governance, and Globalization 6, no. 1 (2011): 7-12 (co-authored with Ken Banks and Florence Scialom)
#CivicBusiness Medium 2015
Frontline and the Missing Middle Mile OpenSource.com 2015
Your Chief Data Governance Officer Medium 2018
Frontline’s Local Focus FrontlineSMS 2019
Messaging: From Apps to Architecture FrontlineSMS 2020
FrontlineSMS is Closing FrontlineSMS 2021
Toronto, Civic Data Trusts + Sidewalk
Expert Testimony, Canadian Civil Liberties Association v. Waterfront Revitalization Corporation 2019
Toronto, Civic Data, and Trust Medium 2018
MIDP: The Data Governance Proposal Medium 2019
A Tale of Two “Smart” Cities Medium 2019
Sidewalk Labs, the Candidate Medium 2019 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie)