Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunity:

Call for input: Race, Borders, and Digital Technologies [info]
- To provide information to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance for her 2020 report to the UN General Assembly. Deadline is 15 May 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Dangerous Digital Liaisons: An Inquiry into Digital Policies Regarding Migrant Smuggling on Social Media (COMPAS Blog, April 2020) [text]

How AI Is Being Used in Canada’s Immigration Decision-Making (COMPAS Blog, April 2020) [text]

Humanitarian Wearables and the Future of Aid in the Global Data Economy (PRIO Blog, April 2020) [text]

Monitoring Being Pitched to Fight Covid-19 was Tested on Refugees (Bureau of Investigative Journalism, April 2020) [text]

Researchers, Somali Refugees Create Podcast Addressing Intimate Partner Violence (International Journalists' Network, April 2020) [text]

What Role Can Tech Serve in the Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis? (COMPAS Blog, April 2020) [text]

What’s the Harm in Categorisation? Reflections on the Categorisation Work of Tech 4 Good (Big Data & Society Blog, March 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Jai (rest), Chai (tea) and Wi-Fi: Exploring Feasibility of Mobile Language Learning App for Asylum-seekers in Greater Athens," Journal of International Development, Early View, 25 March 2020 [Academia]

"Machine Learning for Predicting Landslide Risk of Rohingya Refugee Camp Infrastructure," Journal of Information and Telecommunication, vol. 4, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

"Mobile Libraries & Information Needs in Refugee Camps," Pathfinder Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

"Towards the Ethical Publication of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the Asylum Process," Chapter in The 2019 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab (Springer, Jan. 2020) [preprint]

Multimedia:

Borders and Pandemics: Surveillance Won’t Stop the Coronavirus, Lecture, 24 April 2020 [access]
- See also related news story.

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items - Pt. 1 (24 March 2020)
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items - Pt. 2 (24 March 2020)

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