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04 August 2021

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

How some countries are using digital ID to exclude vulnerable people around the world (The Conversation, Aug. 2021) [text]

Humanitarian biometrics in Yemen: The complex politics of humanitarian technology (NCHS Blog, June 2021) [text]

Reports:

How Refugees in South Africa Use Mobile Phones for Social Connectedness, Paper presented at C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech, 20-25 June 2021 [text]

The Networks and Narratives of Anti-Refugee Disinformation in Europe (Institute for Strategic Dialogue, July 2021) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Journal articles:

"Blockchain-Driven Identification Procedures in the Migration Context: Regulatory Challenges and Fundamental Rights Issues," Diritti fondamentali, no. 2/2021 (May 2021) [SSRN]

"Digital Communication at the Time of COVID-19: Relieve the Refugees’ Psychosocial Burden and Protect Their Wellbeing," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 2 Aug. 2021 [free full-text]
- Focuses on Italy.

"Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Reducing the Addiction of Social Networking Sites among a Sample of Syrian Female Refugees in Jordan," Hebron University Research Journal-B (Humanities), vol. 16, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"Perceptions Toward the Use of Digital Technology for Enhancing Family Planning Services: Focus Group Discussion with Beneficiaries and Key Informative Interview with Midwives," Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 23, no. 7 (July 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Jordan.

"Research on the move: exploring WhatsApp as a tool for understanding the intersections between migration, mobility, health and gender in South Africa," Globalization and Health, 17:71 (July 2021) [open access]

"Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Analysis of Social Media Data and Refugee Movement Statistics," ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 10, no. 8 (July 2021) [open access]

"Unpacking algorithms as technologies of power: Syrian refugees and data experts on algorithmic governance," Digital Geography and Society, vol. 2 (2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrians in Estonia and Turkey.

*Multimedia:

Innovation as a driver of change: the use of new and emerging technologies and humanitarian data, 24 June 2021 [access]

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