Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Entertainment for well-being: Why leisure will shape the future of digital in humanitarianism (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2023) [text]

The identity issue: Digital risks of proxy IDs in Kenya’s online economy (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2023) [text]

UNHCR’s Biometric Tools in 2023 (UNHCR Blog, May 2023) [text]

Reports:

Data Driven Futures of International Refugee Law, MOBILE Working Paper, no. 1 (Univ. of Copenhagen, 2023) [text]

IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action, April 2023 (IASC, April 2023) [text]

Machine Learning and Asylum Adjudications: From Analysis of Variations to Outcome Predictions, MOBILE Working Paper, no. 3 (Univ. of Copenhagen, 2023) [text]

USA: Mandatory Use of CBP One Application Violates the Right to Seek Asylum (Amnesty International, May 2023) [text]

The war in Ukraine and the potential of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index to anticipate human displacement, Migration Research Series, no. 73 (IOM, April 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

“Bidi bidi creativity: The liminality of digital inclusion for refugees in Ugandan higher education,” Social Inclusion, Ahead of Print, 4 May 2023 [open access]

"Decision Making in Asylum Law and Machine Learning: Autoethnographic Lessons Learned on Data Wrangling and Human Discretion," Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 92, no. 1 (April 2023) [open access]

- Note: This is included in a special issue on "Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making and International Law." 

"Nowcasting Daily Population Displacement in Ukraine through Social Media Advertising Data," Population and Development Review, Early View, 6 April 2023 [open access]

- See also related press release.

"Syrian refugees in the shade of the 'Anti-Syrians' discourse: Exploring discriminatory discursive strategies on Twitter," Chapter in Hate Speech on Social Media: A Global Approach, Communication Library, vol. 7 (LabCom Books & EdiPUCE, 2023) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 95.

"Technology and Countersurveillance: Holding Governments Accountable for Refugee Externalisation Policies," Globalizations, Latest Articles, 28 March 2022 [preprint]

Multimedia:

Toward a Road Map for Digitalization in the EU Humanitarian Protection Space, 27 April 2023 [access]

*The U.S.-Mexico Border Becomes More High-Tech, 18 May 2023 [access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1 (11 April 2023)

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2 (11 April 2023)