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21 February 2022

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

How and why do migrants use digital tech? (MIDEQ Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

ICRC cyber-attack: Sharing our analysis (ICRC, Feb. 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link to read the open letter in English, Arabic, Chinese, German & Russian.

"Robot dogs could patrol the US-Mexico border," CNN, 19 Feb. 2022 [text]

Reports:

Promoting COVID-19 vaccination uptake among migrant communities on social media: Evidence from Germany (IOM, Feb. 2022) [text]

Protecting Workers from Cyberbullying within Digital Humanitarian Response (Digital Humanitarian Network, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Twenty-First Century Humanitarian Information Manager: A Modern Competencies Framework (Digital Humanitarian Network, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Articles:

"Digitization without digital evidence: Technology and Sweden’s asylum system," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 May 2021 [full-text via author]

Geopolitics, vol. 27, no. 1 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

"The Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Border Zones Prompts Privacy Questions," Migration Information Source, 2 Feb. 2022 [text]

"An institutional perspective to bridging the divide: The case of Somali women refugees fostering digital inclusion in the volatile context of urban Kenya," New Media & Society, vol. 24, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Shifting to Tele-Mental Health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID-19 pandemic," Conflict and Health, 16:6 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Users' polarisation in dynamic discussion networks: The case of refugee crisis in Sweden," PLoS ONE 17(2): e0262992 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

Resource:

UNESCO Chair in ICT4D [access]
- "[A] group of researchers and practitioners committed to excellence in the use of ICTs for development." One of their current initiatives focuses on "Technology, Inequality and Migration." This page includes links to online surveys for migrants, return migrants and their families. See also recent policy briefs and working papers

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