Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks
HNPW 2025 (17 - 28 March 2025)
          


 
Session title: Communicating uncertainty in an uncertain world: Balancing the dual challenges of a thirst for data during humanitarian action with the fear of getting it wrong as a data producer?
Organizer(s): Flowminder, HOTOSM, ACAPS, CLEAR Global
24 Mar 25 09:00-10:30   (Salle 14)
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SessionAbstract

A lot of data producers are motivated by the value that their data can have for humanitarian decision-making. However, in evolving humanitarian contexts, the precision and granularity of data can change, making it challenging to align the right data, at the right time, for a decision. This session will feature panellists from organisations working on the production & collation of data from multiple sources (citizen-generated data, crowdsourcing, telecoms data, census and MSNA data) and pose the question: How can the uncertainty of data, especially when it is new or evolving quickly, be better communicated to end-users, so that they can take strong data-informed decisions? Questions we will explore include: How can we give data producers the confidence to share what they have, when they have it? What counts as 'good enough' for data users in data scarce environments? How can users' use of data feed into better collective understanding? How can data producers communicate their degree of certainty/uncertainty about the data they are working on? And how can we help end users to interpret/understand how different datasets do (or do not) take this uncertainty issue into account?


Speakers

Flowminder, ACAPS, CLEAR Global and HOTOSM


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