20 March 2017

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information Services

Event:

Conference: Mobile Learning Week, Paris, 20-24 March 2017 [info]
- The theme is "Education in Emergencies and Crises."

Publications:

Brazil’s Warm Welcome to Stateless Family Inspires Refugee Hosting App (Refugees Deeply, March 2017) [text]

"Chatbot That Overturned 160,000 Parking Fines Now Helping Refugees Claim Asylum," The Guardian, 6 March 2017 [text]

"Contributing to Social Capital: An Investigation of Asian Immigrants' Use of Public Library Services," Library & Information Science Research, vol. 39, no. 1 (Jan. 2017) [postprint via ResearchGate]

DHS is Your Friend on Facebook, Whether You “Like” It or Not (The Asylumist Blog, March 2017) [text]

Germany to Use Voice Analysis Software to Help Determine Where Refugees Come from (The Verge, March 2017) [text]

How Teachers Use Mobile Phones as Education Tools in Refugee Camps (Education Plus Development Blog, March 2017) [text]

Innovation Transforms Education for Refugee Students in Africa (UNHCR, March 2017) [text]

"Novel Tablet-based Personal Interviewing Application Use among Newly Resettled Refugees," Health and Technology, OnlineFirst, 10 March 2017 [full-text via Academia.edu]

Research under Pressure: Challenges to Researching Country of Origin Information for Asylum Claims (Asylos, Feb. 2017) [text]

Responding to Changes from Outside the Sector: Information Technology and Social Media, Panel at 31st ALNAP Annual Meeting, 14-15 Feb. 2017 [info]
- Audio for this panel is available here.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information Services (2 March 2017)

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