March 1, 2019
The Problem with Palantir
Zara Rahman of The Engine Room sheds light on a new partnership between WPF and Palantir Technologies, a US company with ties to intelligence communities.
Zara Rahman is a Non-Resident Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab. Zara is a Berlin-based researcher and writer whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Her most recent work focuses on the role that technology is playing in shaping our identities and our sense of selves and each other, and has written about this through the lens of immigration, refugee rights for the Rohingya in Bangladesh, and more broadly, the limits of digital data in shaping our identities.
Over the past decade, her research has focused on supporting the responsible use of data and technology in advocacy and social justice, working with activists and organizers from around the world to ensure context-driven and thoughtful uses of tech and data. She is currently the Deputy Director at The Engine Room, an international non-profit organization supporting civil society to use tech and data more effectively and strategically in their work.
She was a 2016/17 fellow at Data & Society, where she worked on creative and artistic ways of boosting critical data and tech literacy, and she recently concluded a 2-year fellowship at digitalHKS at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she worked on understanding the origins of certain identification technologies.
Her past work has included campaigning for an access to information law in Spain, investigating the impact of open data in the extractive industries in the Middle East during the uprisings in 2011/12, and supporting data literacy efforts with civil society and journalists across the world with School of Data. She also sits on the Advisory Committee of CREA, a feminist human rights organization based in India, and she writes about digital policy and technology in Bangladesh for Global Voices.
March 1, 2019
Chris Delatorre, Zara Rahman, The Engine Room
Zara Rahman of The Engine Room sheds light on a new partnership between WPF and Palantir Technologies, a US company with ties to intelligence communities.
May 14, 2018
Zara Rahman of The Engine Room likens GDPR preparation to a “spring cleaning” exercise, suggesting ways nonprofits can track their internal GDPR-related activities.
March 27, 2018
Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D., Kelly Church, Natasha Duarte, Zara Rahman, Chris Delatorre, The Engine Room
Podcast and Transcript: Experts discuss responsible data, power, and the role of data and ethics in the tech for good space.
March 17, 2017
“For too long, ‘partnership’ efforts have been far more about getting perceived ‘developing’ countries to be more like ‘developed’ countries.”
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