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June 17, 2020

‘Frontlines during Covid-19: Technology, remote work and sustainable livelihoods for refugees’

Friday, 12 June saw a panel of researchers and practitioners discuss remote work for refugees in a meeting hosted by The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement at Cambridge University. Philip Rushworth covers some of the key themes that came up.   Covid-19 and the onset of lockdown around the world has revealed […]

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March 17, 2020

Guest blog: Hidden Labour and Workers Forums Data Do Matter!

What is the ‘hidden’ labour of platform workers, how can we learn about it, and why is it important? In this guest blog, Dr Wifak Gueddana reflects on these questions and introduces her pioneering research project.    Platforms have been a key subject of publications over the past decades with a few unicorns that have […]

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Preemptive Love Coalition’s WorkWell programme in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan (Preemptive Love Coalition, 2019)
February 20, 2020

Guest blog: The emergence of digital microwork among forcibly displaced people: lessons from Iraq and Palestine

What is the role of digital microwork in providing employment opportunities for forcibly displaced people? In this guest blog post, Giselle Gonzales reflects on her research to explore this question.    The world now faces the highest number of forcibly displaced people (FDPs hereafter) ever recorded. A lack of economic opportunity has been identified as […]

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February 11, 2020

Guest blog: Na’amal: Building the ecosystem for refugees working remotely

Many obstacles exist to making remote work a livelihood opportunity for refugees, in this post Lorraine Charles reflects on what her organisation, Na’amal, is doing to address these challenges.    Employment provides refugees the ability to access a dignified livelihood. Essentially, livelihood activities are important because they allow individuals to build functioning social networks based […]

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Andreas Hackl in conversation with a refugee AI worker at Taqadam
December 9, 2019

Guest Blog: Machine Learning Data Labelling: Inclusive Business?

Guest blog by: Karina Grosheva   What is Taqadam? TaQadam is a technology startup that aims to democratise Geo-Analytics and computer vision by applying mobile work in machine learning data labelling. Taqadam works with an inclusive model hiring vulnerable youth and refugees to perform tagging, mapping, and image annotation.   Taqadam believes that AI won’t […]

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October 25, 2019

Refugee work in the digital economy: Challenges and opportunities – a workshop report

Building on a workshop held in 2019 at the University of Edinburgh, we have now published a full draft report on the challenges and opportunities in current approaches to facilitate digital work and education among refugees. For a write-up of the vibrant discussions and presentations from the workshop, please have a look at the report […]

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June 13, 2019

Digital refugee livelihoods and the future of work

Through an ongoing collaboration with the Migration Branch of the International Labour Organization, I was invited to give a seminar at the ILO headquarters in Geneva. The main goal of the seminar was to share a first outline of the project in order to make its outcomes more relevant for the ILO and key actors in the future of work.

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    ‘Frontlines during Covid-19: Technology, remote work and sustainable livelihoods for refugees’
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    Guest blog: Hidden Labour and Workers Forums Data Do Matter!
  • Preemptive Love Coalition’s WorkWell programme in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan (Preemptive Love Coalition, 2019)
    Guest blog: The emergence of digital microwork among forcibly displaced people: lessons from Iraq and Palestine
  • Guest blog: Na’amal: Building the ecosystem for refugees working remotely
  • Andreas Hackl in conversation with a refugee AI worker at Taqadam
    Guest Blog: Machine Learning Data Labelling: Inclusive Business?

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