UN Global Pulse Risks Harms Benefits Assessment Tool (2019)


UN Global Pulse has developed a two-phase “Risk, Harms and Benefits Assessment Tool,” a data privacy, ethics and data protection compliance mechanism designed to help identify and minimize the risks of harms and maximize the positive impacts of data innovation projects. The assessment can be used at the onset of a data innovation project, or when an existing project needs to undergo changes, taking into account every stage of the data life cycle and, where possible, should include a diverse team of experts as well as representatives of the groups of individuals who could be potentially affected by the data use. Read more here