In my first post, I incorporated Amartya Sen’s approach that development must be judged by its impact on people, their choices, capabilities and freedoms, making migration (people on the move) and how we communicate about it, an ideal subject to explore ICT as a vector of development. I have already …
In September I followed Growing Europe, a series of events on migrant entrepreneurship in Europe run each Thursday of the month. It was a collaborative effort of three projects that work to boost migrant entrepreneurship: European Migrant Entrepreneurship Network (EMEN), Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow (M-UP) …
Having looked first at migration, development and ICT at global policy level, and then at an example of Big Data for refugee forecasting to improve humanitarian response, in this, my third post of the series, I intended to explore how technology is used along migration journeys. More specifically, I wanted …
In writing my first post in this series, I explained that ICT seems to be referenced in migration policy frameworks almost exclusively for its role in data collection, mostly associated with border management. You may – likely influenced by your political persuasions and where you live – see this as …
Why are migration, development and technology important to consider through the ComDev lens and how are they present in global frameworks?
