09 November 2021

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunity: 

Lecture: The Digitization of Humanitarianism and its Discontents, Online, 15 November 2021 [info]

Blog posts:

Breaking the cycle of ignorance: Prioritising refugees’ digital leisure and entertainment (UNHCR Innovation Service, Sept. 2021) [text]

How mobile phones help internally displaced people in Nigeria (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]
- See related journal article below.

Meet the Syrian cartoonist behind UNHCR’s first-ever NFT fundraiser (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]
- Note: NFT = non-fungible token.

Six key findings from engaging communities through messaging apps (UNHCR Innovation Service, Oct. 2021) [text]

Talking Heads: ReliefWeb then and now (ReliefWeb Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Why Connectivity is about More Than Technology (UNHCR Innovation Service, Oct. 2021) [text]

New open access book:

Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age, Univ. of California Press, Oct. 2021 [open access]
- "In Networked Refugees, Nadya Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize information communication technology platforms to motivate reciprocity—a cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and services—and informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community."

Reports & journal articles:

"Can You Hear Me Now? Attorney Perceptions of Interpretation, Technology, and Power in Immigration Court," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 30 Oct. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

Digital Identity: An Analysis for the Humanitarian Sector (IFRC, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Digital identity as a platform for improving refugee management," Information Systems Journal, vol. 31, no. 6 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on UNHCR in Uganda.

Digital identity, biometrics and inclusion in humanitarian responses to refugee crises (ODI, Oct. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Arabic. Shares the "perspectives of (mostly Syrian) refugees in Jordan on their experiences with biometrics... ." 

"Explicability of humanitarian AI: a matter of principles," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 6:19 (Oct. 2021) [open access]

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, Seattle, USA, June 2021 [text]
- See also earlier related literature review.

"Mobile phone use for social inclusion: the case of internally displaced people in Nigeria," Information Technology for Development, Latest Articles, 13 Sept. 2021 [open access]

"The Role of Emerging Predictive IT Tools in Effective Migration Governance," Politics and Governance, vol. 9, no. 4 (2021) [open access]

Struggle to Settle down! Examining the Voices of Migrants and Refugees on Twitter Platform, Paper presented at CSCW '21: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Virtual Event, 23-27 October 2021 [text]

"Technologisation at Sea: Securitisation and Surveillance in Maritime Interception of Asylum Seekers," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 34 (2021) [full-text]

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