19 March 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Revolutionizing refugee registration: The Digital Gateway in Egypt (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

[Stories re. UNHCR/Vodafone Foundation Instant Network Schools (INS) Program] (UNHCR, March 2025) 
- Digital learning opportunities brighten futures for refugees in South Sudan [text]
- Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR expand digital learning for displaced and host community learners in Mozambique [text]

Students use AI to aid United Nations in Ukrainian refugee response (RIT News, March 2025) [text]

UNHCR Malaysia and TNG Digital Empower Refugees with Financial Access through TNG eWallet (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Unlocking potential: How digital jobs are changing the lives of refugee women (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Jordan.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"AI Use in the Asylum Procedure in Germany: Exploring Perspectives with Refugees and Supporters on Assessment Criteria and Beyond," Chapter in Participatory Artificial Intelligence in Public Social Services: From Bias to Fairness in Assessing Beneficiaries (Springer, March 2025) [open access]

Journal of Interactive Media in Education, vol. 2025, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]
- Special collection on "Connected Learning in Contexts of Forced Displacement": "This special collection is designed to capture some of the experiences of those engaging in connected learning programmes for refugees and displaced communities; to begin to identify if, and how, these approaches can address some of the underlying assumptions that connected learning carries; and potentially surface more nuanced conceptualisations of what is actually connected in connected learning."

"The Perceptions about the Immigration Phenomenon Communicated Through Social Media Platforms in Italy," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 March 2025 [open access]

"Privacy in Displacement: Data Protection for Refugees in Sudan," Journal of Intellectual Property and Information Technology, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Social Media, Digital Resilience, and Knowledge Sustainability: Syrian Refugees' Perspectives," Journal of Intercultural Communication, vol. 25, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Jordan and Türkiye.

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