04 July 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Digital lifelines for communities in crisis (UNHCR Innovation Service, June 2025) [text]
- Focuses on mental health and psychosocial support for forcibly displaced people in Sudan and beyond.

Everyone is betting on digital work for refugees – but who’s building the systems to support it? (LSE Inequalities Blog, June 2025) [text]

How AI can support anticipatory action to address forced displacement (Development for Peace Blog, June 2025) [text]
- See also related World Bank brief.

"Infrastructure Without Inclusion: What The Rohingya Camps Teach Us," Eurasia Review, 13 June 2025 [text]

"Q&A: Algorithms tested on migrants should worry citizens too," Context News, 2 June 2025 [text]

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

What is CBP Home: A U.S. Government App to Help Migrants Self-Deport (Documented, June 2025) [text]

Reports:

Digital Literacy Interventions: A Guide for Organizations Working in Forced Displacement Contexts (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Empower, protect, innovate: bootcamps for bridging the gender digital divide - Impact report (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Explain: Artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector (ALNAP, May 2025) [access]
- Follow link for full briefing and quick read.

[NetHope Case Studies, 2025] [access]
- NetHope is "a consortium of over 60 leading global nonprofits [that] unites with technology companies and funding partners to design, fund, implement, adapt, and scale innovative approaches to solve development, humanitarian, and conservation challenges."

Resource:

Integration starts before arrival: IOM launches app and workbook for refugees (IOM, May 2025) [access]
- Focuses on Germany.

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