12 March 2023

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Exhibit: Storytelling, Migration Journeys, and Technology, Cambridge, MA, 28 March 2023 [info]
- Follow link for reading list.

Workshop: Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Migration Management, London/Online, 29 March 2023 [info]

Blog posts & press:

8 ways we’re dismantling the digital gender divide (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2023) [text]

CBP One is Riddled with Flaws That Make the App Inaccessible to Many Asylum Seekers (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Defanging Disinformation’s Threat to Ukrainian Refugees (Jigsaw, Feb. 2023) [text]
- See also related Gizmodo article.

How a Hackathon Supported Personal Data Protection (UNHCR Blog, March 2023) [text]

‘Network Guardians’ help to bridge gender digital gap in Ecuadorian neighbourhood (UNHCR, March 2023) [text]

"Regardless of Price, Bitcoin is a Lifeline for African Refugees," Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 [text]
- Focuses on Eritreans.

Reports: 

Displaced and Disconnected: East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region (UNHCR, July 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Everywhere Border: Digital Migration Control Infrastructure in the Americas (Transnational Institute, Feb. 2023) [text]

Humanitarian EdTech Innovation Toolkit: Tools and insights for innovating with technology-based education in a humanitarian context (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Digital labour platforms and migration: making of commoditised workers, 7 Feb. 2023 [access]

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