Program

Workshop on Information and Communication Technologies for Refugees and Displacement

Friday, April 15th, 2016

Agenda

Time Activity
9:00 – 10:00 Introductions and charge

Penn State –Carleen Maitland

 

10:00 – 10: 20 Coffee break
10:20 – 11: 20 Break outs – technological change

 

1.       Access (Networks, Use, Surveillance and Censorship)

 

2.       Data (Big Data, social media data, analytics, biometrics)

 

11: 20 – 12: 30 Report out
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 Synthesis
2:00 – 3:00 Break outs – Refugee and displacement application domains

 

1.       Youth, education and livelihoods (unaccompanied minors, special roles of youth, formal and informal education, online work)

 

2.       Social consequences of mobility and migration (communities, social ties, interpersonal support networks, legal frameworks, identity)

 

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 – 5:00 Report out, final synthesis, close