Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Blocked, blanked, locked out: Tech stymies South African refugees (DevDiscourse, March 2023) [text]

CBP is Expanding Its Surveillance Tower Program at the U.S.-Mexico Border–and We're Mapping It (Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 2023) [text]

Forging New Lives: Congolese Refugees as Digital Creators (ODID Blog, March 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Kenya.

"Four ways ChatGPT could help level the humanitarian playing field," The New Humanitarian, 20 March 2023 [text]

Georgetown and UNHCR Collaborate on Big Data and Forced Displacement Project (Georgetown Univ., March 2023) [text]

Immigration Law and AI (The Asylumist, March 2023) [text]

"Like Handing My Whole Life Over": The German Federal Administrative Court’s landmark ruling on mobile phone data extraction in asylum procedures (Verfassungs Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

UNHCR launches pilot Cash-Based Intervention Using Blockchain Technology for Humanitarian Payments to People Displaced and Impacted by the War in Ukraine (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

- See also related press release re. an award UNHCR received for its use of this technology.

What do video games have to offer refugees? (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2023) [text]

Why do Western governments delegate border control to AI more and more? An interview with Petra Molnar (Global Voices, April 2023) [text]

Young, displaced, anxious, and online (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2023) [text]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1 (12 March 2023)

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2 (12 March 2023)