Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

'As important to me as water': How Refugees in Rome Use Smartphones to Improve Their Well-being, Thesis (Massey Univ., 2017) [text]

Bits of Life: Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Improve the Livelihoods of Refugees, Thesis (Columbia Univ., 2017) [text]

"Cellphones and Apps Powering Learning," Education Week, 5 Sept. 2017 [text]

Ethnographic Study of Facebook Usage among the Persian- and Arabic-Speaking Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Asylum Center in Utrecht, Thesis (Univ. of Utrecht, 2017) [text]

How UNHCR is Using Social Media for Good (Social Media for Good Blog, Aug. 2017) [access]
- Follow link for video.

The Humanitarian Access Paradox: Data Security in Contested Settings, RSIS Commentary, no. 166 (Nayang Tech. Univ., Sept. 2017) [text]

Leveraging Humanitarian Technology to Assist Refugees (Perry World House Blog, Jan. 2017) [text]

"Meet the Women Using Tech to Transform the Lives of Refugees," The Guardian, 2 Aug. 2017 [text]

New Mapping Resource for Humanitarian Relief Organizations (Illinois State Univ., Sept. 2017) [info via ReliefWeb]

Normalizing the Data Revolution (IIHA Blog, Sept. 2017) [text]

On the Ground in Greece, MBA Students Test Tech to Help Refugees (Univ. of California at Berkeley, Sept. 2017) [text]
- More info. was also available in a related Fast Company article entitled "This Chatbot Helps Refugees Prepare for Asylum Interviews," but for some reason, it has disappeared from the web site; you can still view the Google cache though.

Refugees & HCI Workshop, 8th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, Troyes, France, 26-30 June 2017 [info]
- Follow link to access papers submitted for the workshop.

Social Media and Forced Displacement: Big Data Analytics & Machine-Learning (UN Global Pulse & UNHCR, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related project summary.

Tracking the Flow of Refugees Using Data Science (Data for Democracy, June 2017) [text]

UNHCR Preliminary Legal Observations on the Seizure and Search of Electronic Devices of Asylum-Seekers (UNHCR, Aug. 2017) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items (14 July 2017)

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