15 April 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

AI in humanitarian missions: Opportunities and challenges (Young Voices Blog, March 2025) [text]

Digital humanitarians: the ITHACA project (UNHCR Blog, April 2025) [text]

Digital Work and Refugees: How Businesses Can Tackle Poverty and Displacement Through Opportunity (Business Fights Poverty, April 2025) [text]

*Press start (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2025) [text]
- Focuses on gaming in North Macedonia.

Smarter refugee surveys for a more effective humanitarian response (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2025) [text]

"US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection," AP News, 30 March 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"Ethical implications related to processing of personal data and artificial intelligence in humanitarian crises: a scoping review," BMC Medical Ethics, 26:49 (April 2025) [open access]

"Fratelli Tutti and Social Media: Solidarity and Social Networks Among Locals and Urban Refugees in Kampala, Uganda," Journal of Social Encounters, vol. 9, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"How Insider-Led Processes Lead to Localization: The Case of Digital Technology and Humanitarian Protection," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 5, no 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"IOM's WAKA Well unravelled: A multimodal discourse analysis of an internet-based migration-information campaign," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"'Managing' the paradox: refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 March 2025 [open access]
- "[W]e draw on recent empirical studies to examine how increased access to digital technology can paradoxically lead to less access and agency in relation to health and financial services for refugees and less integration into host community life. "

"Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon's digital humanitarian infrastructures," Big Data & Society, 18 March 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Syrians.

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