Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

Adapting to the Unexpected: In Bosnia, a Tailored Internet Access to Address a Special Situation (Télécoms Sans Frontières, Aug. 2019) [text]

Alterations to the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Website since President Trump’s Inauguration (Sunlight Foundation, Sept. 2019) [text]
- See also related press release.

Big Brother Says ‘No’: Surveillance and Income Management of Asylum Seekers though the ASPEN Card (Privacy International, Oct. 2019) [text]

Bridging the Mobile Disability Gap in Refugee Settings (GSMA Mobile for Development Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

Digital Divide is Shrinking for America’s Hispanic Population, NTIA Data Show (NTIA Blog, Oct. 2019) [text]

Facebook, the Rohingya, and Internet Blackouts in Myanmar (The Interpreter Blog, Oct. 2019) [text]

For Young Refugees, a Mobile Phone can be as Important as Food and Water When Arriving in a New Country (The Conversation, Oct. 2019) [text]

MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Syrian Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work (Tech Talk Blog, Oct. 2019) [text]

Narratives Around Migration Online: Anxiety over Facts (Dahrendorf Forum Blog, July 2019) [text]

UN Launches Plans for Innovative Technology Hub (UNHCR, Oct. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk," Antipode, Early View, 22 Oct. 2019 [open access]

Extended Reality for Refugees: Pragmatic Ideas through Ethnographic Research with Refugees in Australia, Paper presented at IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Beijing, 14-18 Oct. 2019 [text]

Roaming Africa: Migration, Resilience and Social Protection (Langaa Research & Publishing, Nov. 2019) [ResearchGate]
- The second volume in a four-part series called Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa, this book examines "how mobility, resilience and social protection in the digital age are closely inter-connected."

The Role of Technology in Addressing the Global Migration Crisis: Conference Report (World Refugee Council, Oct. 2019) [text]

Technology Virtual Issue (Oct. 2019) [free full-text]
- Links to 11 articles from both Development Policy Review and Disasters.

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1 (7 Oct. 2019)
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2 (7 Oct. 2019)

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.