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"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." - Christian Lous Lange quotes from BrainyQuote.com

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Technology has huge potential to be used for social good. Mobiles and mapping software can be used to gather data, and visualise patterns and trends; predictive analytics can be used to help translate 'big data' into useful statistics; unmanned aerial vehicles can monitor real-time crises; and social media helps mobilise groups around the world.

These technologies are getting more accessible to diverse groups by the day. Just as mobile phones and cameras have spread across the world and are now in the hands of people and organisations in remote areas, some highly advanced technologies that seemed to be once reserved for computer scientists and technology firms are becoming increasingly available to non-government organisations.

If paired with the ability to disseminate information broadly and forge strong ties with local grassroots movements, technology can allow civil society to monitor, predict, and possibly deter mass violence, identify interventions that will be most effective and drive large scale movements to amplify the voices and actions of marginalised communities.

Technology may prompt organisations to move from seeking incremental change to focus on large-scale systemic change. One of the key attributes of many new technologies is their capacity to allow people to share information quickly and to cross from local to global and back again.

At the Social Good Summit in New York in 2013, Melinda Gates said: "Most people aren't really moved by statistics. Even for me personally it wasn't until I took my first trip to meet the families behind those statistics that I realised their hopes and aspirations and dreams aren't that different from ours ... [I]t's just they often don't have the right tools to realise those dreams."

Connecting the raw data to the human stories is key, for example, the International Centre for Advocates Against Discrimination ( Icaad), Nazdeek, and Promotion and Advancement of Justice, Harmony and Rights for Adivasis ( Pajhra) are developing a programme to combat maternal mortality in Assam, India. The programme marries community mobilisation with mobile and mapping applications and the potential for legal intervention. The aim is to make reproductive health services more accountable.

But with new technologies comes greater responsibilities. There are associated risks and unintended consequences. The more volatile the region and vulnerable the community, the higher the chance of revictimisation through retaliation and the greater the risk of information being used in unforeseen ways to those providing or collecting it.

Therefore, informed decisions must guide any new technology's risk mitigation strategy. Strategies must also provide a means for redress of grievances, and ensure that any and all training discusses ways to minimise risk. Also, though video and visual imagery can immediately make statistics and data come to life, protecting the 'visual privacy' and 'visual anonymity' of vulnerable people must take priority.

Organisations who collect, disseminate and analyse potentially sensitive data must strengthen their understanding of the technological climate they are wading into, along with their potential liabilities. Establishing internal policies and guidance for staff and volunteers will ensure that technology has the best possible impact while always seeking ways to minimise risk.

We are firmly committed to advocating for stronger privacy efforts by civil society as we begin to build our knowledge base, and develop the technological capacity to provide greater resources to those we serve.
Hansdeep Singh is the co-founder and director of legal programmes at This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. To get more articles like this direct to your inbox, sign up free to become a member of the Global Development Professionals Network International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination. Jaspreet Singh is also a co-founder, and director policy & advocacy. They tweet @IcaadGlobal. Linda Raftree is on the board of directors at Icaad. She tweets .

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Technology has huge potential to be used for social good. Mobiles and mapping software can be used to gather data, and visualise patterns and trends; predictive analytics can be used to help translate 'big data' into useful statistics; unmanned aerial vehicles can monitor real-time crises; and social media helps mobilise groups around the world.

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WHY TECHNOLOGY IS POSITIVE IN THIS GENERATION

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WHY TECHNOLOGY IS POSITIVE IN THIS GENERATION

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