Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items

Opportunities:

Call for tenders: Evaluate Country of Origin Information on Albania, Bangladesh, Egypt and Sri Lanka [info]
- Submit expressions of interest by 27 January 2017.

Job announcement: Part-time Co-editor, Forced Migration Review [info]
- Apply by 1 March 2017.

Resources:

Connectivity and the Modern Refugee (Project Syndicate, Jan. 2017) [text]

"Digital Storytelling with Pre-service Teachers: Raising Awareness for Refugees through ICTs in ESL Primary Classes," Digital Education, no. 30 (2016) [open access]

Fighting Ebola with Information: Learning from the Use of Data, Information, and Digital Technologies in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response (USAID, Jan. 2017) [text]
- See also related Social Media for Good blog post.

Flying Blind? Gathering and Using Quality Information in Situations of Constrained Access, Webinar, 6 Dec. 2016 [info]
- Follow link for audio, video and transcript of this webinar;

Humanitarian Evidence Systems Mapping in East Africa (Development Initiatives, Jan. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

"ICTs, Agency, and Gender in Syrian Activists’ Work among Syrian Refugees in Jordan," Gender, Technology and Development, vol. 20, no. 3 (2016) [free full-text]
- Note: This article is freely available until the end of Jan. 2017.

The Signal Code: A Human Rights Approach to Information during Crisis (Harvard University, Jan. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]


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- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (8 Dec. 2016)

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