18 February 2019

Thematic Focus: ICTs and Other Technologies

"Asylum-seekers Fleeing the US for Canada are Figuring Out How to Do It by Watching YouTube Videos and Scanning Social Media," Insider, 9 Feb. 2019 [text]

Becoming a Digital Humanitarian, One Deployment at a Time (ReliefWeb Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]

Data for Refugees: The D4R Challenge on Mobility of Syrian Refugees in Turkey (arXiv, July 2018; updated Oct. 2018) [preprint]

Developing Integration Policy for Refugees through Mobile Phone Data Analysis: A Study on Türk Telekom Customers, Paper presented at the "Data for Refugees" (D4R) Challenge Workshop, Istanbul, 21 Jan. 2019 [text]

"Implementing a Digital Communication Assistance Tool to Collect the Medical History of Refugee Patients: DICTUM Friedland - An Action-oriented Mixed Methods Study Protocol," BMC Health Services Research, 19:103 (Feb. 2019) [open access]

Machine Learning in Action for the Humanitarian Sector (IBM, Jan. 2019) [text via Phys.org]

Measuring Venezuelan Emigration with Twitter, CID Working Paper, 342 (Harvard Univ. Growth Lab, 2018) [text]

New UN Deal with Data Mining Firm Palantir Raises Protection Concerns (IRIN, Feb. 2019) [text]
- See also related Slate article.

Striking a Balance: Emerging Technologies, Humanitarian Needs, and Other Public Goods ( Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Temporal Enactment of Resettled Refugees' ICT‐mediated Information Practices," Information Systems Journal, vol. 29, no. 1 (Jan. 2019) [free full-text]
- Focuses on refugees in New Zealand.

"User-Centered App Adaptation of a Low-Intensity E-Mental Health Intervention for Syrian Refugees," Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9:663 (Jan. 2019) [open access]

"When Facebook Spread Hate, One Cop Tried Something Unusual," New York Times, 12 Feb. 2019 [text]

New app:

FindHello (Refugee Center Online) [info via ImmigrationProf Blog]
- This app is designed to help "refugees, asylees, and immigrants easily locate resources in cities across the US. Users can input a city, and filter by categories, such as English Classes, Housing & Food, Citizenship & Immigration, etc. Users can also narrow search results for organizations that serve particular populations, such as women and LGBTI individuals."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (14 Jan. 2019)

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