Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

Accessibility at the Heart of a Study on Experience of Forced Displacement and Migration (EuroScientist, June 2020) [text]

Enabling Refugees’ and Host Communities’ Self-reliance through Digital Capacity Building (Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Blog, June 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Rwanda. See more about this programme below.

"A Facebook Post can Change Your Life: Documents Reveal How Social Media is Used by Immigration Officials," ABC News [Australia], 29 June 2020 [text]

"Improve Mobile Access for Refugees in Kenya," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 24 June 2020 [text]

The Refugee Coding School Trend: Lessons and Reflections (UNHCR Innovation Service, June 2020) [text]

Testing New Strategies to Stop the Spread of Prejudice (UNHCR Innovation Service, June 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

AI, Digital Identities, Biometrics, Blockchain: A Primer on the Use of Technology in Migration Management (German Marshall Fund, June 2020) [text]

"Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees," Chapter 24 in Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities (Edinburgh University Press, Dec. 2019) [ResearchGate]

"Education for Humanity: Higher Education for Refugees in Resource-constrained Environments through Innovative Technology," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 24 June 2020 [ResearchGate]

Infrastructuring Hope: Solidarity, Leadership, Negotiation, and ICT among the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, Paper presented at ICTD ’20, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 17-20 June 2020 [text]

Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (GSMA) [access]
- "Our mission is to accelerate the delivery and impact of digital humanitarian assistance." Follow link for more information about this programme, as well as access to related reports, blog posts and podcast.

Partnering During Crisis: The Shared Value of Partnerships Between Mobile Network Operators
and Humanitarian Organisations (GSMA, April 2020) [text]
- Most recent report produced via the a/m GSMA programme.

"Promoting Digital Humanitarian Action in Protecting Human Rights: Hope or Hype," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 5:6 (June 2020) [open access]

"Reticent Digital Diasporas in Times of Crisis: The Shifting Emotion Work of the Burundian Diaspora," African Diaspora, Advance Articles, 2 April 2020 [open access]

Technology, National Systems and Civil Society: Using a Mobile Application to Protect the Housing, Land and Property Rights of Displaced Persons in Honduras, Paper presented at Land and Poverty Conference 2019: Catalyzing Innovation, Washington, DC, 25-29 March 2019 [text via ReliefWeb]

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items - Pt. 1 (13 June 2020)
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Information-related Items - Pt. 2 (13 June 2020)