Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

New resources:

UNHCR Emergency Handbook [info]
- "Available online as an app, UNHCR’s Emergency Handbook gives hands-on guidance to humanitarians in all areas of life-saving assistance from registering refugees, to providing shelter, food, sanitation and more. The Handbook, which draws on the UN Refugee Agency’s over 60 years of operational experience, works on all electronic platforms. Once downloaded to a mobile, it even works offline for use in remote areas. It is now also available in Arabic, French and Spanish."

ReliefWeb Mobile, version 2 [info]
- "We have just rebuilt the mobile version of our website. You may remember that a while back we launched ReliefWeb Lite in a bid to better meet the needs of users in low-bandwidth countries. Our Labs research ultimately proved to us that an enhanced mobile version would be more sustainable and stable."

Publications:

Apping and Resilience: How Smartphones Help Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Negotiate the Precarity of Displacement (Clingendael, July 2018) [text]

Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants, Discussion Paper, no. 11801 (Institute of Labor Economics, Sept. 2018) [text]

Bots at the Gate: A Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System (Univ. of Toronto, Sept. 2018) [text]
- See also related Refugees Deeply comment.

Connectivity for Refugees: What Have We Learned? (UNHCR, July 2018) [text]

"Control or Rescue at Sea? Aims and Limits of Border Surveillance Technologies in the Mediterranean Sea," Disasters, vol. 42, 4 (Oct. 2018) [free full-text]

"Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests," New York Times, 21 Aug. 2018 [text]
- See also related Slate article. The study referenced in the NYT article is available here.

For Refugees and Locals in Uganda, the Internet is Changing Lives (UNHCR, Sept. 2018) [text]

Here's How an Anti-refugee Hoax Went Viral across Europe (Poynter, Aug. 2018) [text]

Migration Data Using Social Media: A European Perspective (European Commission, July 2018) [text]

Mobile Platforms Can Give Refugees Access to Vital Information When They Arrive in Australia (The Conversation, Sept. 2018) [text]

Refugees Learn to Code a New Future in Malawi (UNHCR, Sept. 2018) [text]

Studying Migrant Assimilation through Facebook Interests, Paper presented at Social Informatics 2018, St. Petersburg, 25-28 Sept. 2018 [text]

Technology, Migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (ODI, Sept. 2018) [text]

"Twitter Will Begin Labeling Political Ads about Issues Such as Immigration," Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2018 [text]

Using AI to Help Save Lives (Microsoft Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

When Battery Life Saves Human Life: For Forced Migrants, Smartphones are Key to Their Survival (TechCrunch, Sept. 2018) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items (30 July 2018)

Tagged Publications.