Digital Lifeline?: ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons (Information Policy)
暫譯: 數位生命線？：資訊通信技術對難民與流離失所者的影響（資訊政策）

Digital Lifeline?: ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons (Information Policy)
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2018-05-04
  • 售價: $2,130
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,024
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 304
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0262535084
  • ISBN-13: 9780262535083

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, in the global refugee crisis.

Today's global refugee crisis has mobilized humanitarian efforts to help those fleeing persecution and armed conflict at all stages of their journey. Aid organizations are increasingly employing new information technologies in their mission, taking advantage of proliferating mobile phones, remote sensors, wireless networks, and biometric identification systems. Digital Lifeline? examines the use of these technological innovations by the humanitarian community, exploring operations and systems that range from forecasting refugee flows to providing cellular and Internet connectivity to displaced persons. The contributors, from disciplines as diverse as international law and computer science, offer a variety of perspectives on forced migration, technical development, and user behavior, drawing on field work in countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Germany, Greece, the United States, and Canada.

The chapters consider such topics as the use of information technology in refugee status determination; ethical and legal issues surrounding biometric technologies; information technology within organizational hierarchies; the use of technology by refugees; access issues in refugee camps; the scalability and sustainability of information technology innovations in humanitarian work; geographic information systems and spatial thinking; and the use of "big data" analytic techniques. Finally, the book identifies policy research directions, develops a unified research agenda, and offers practical suggestions for conducting displacement research.

Contributors
Elizabeth Belding, Karen E. Fisher, Daniel Iland, Lindsey N. Kingston, Carleen F. Maitland, Susan F. Martin, Galya Ben-Arieh Ruffer, Paul Schmitt, Lisa Singh, Brian Tomaszewski, Mariya Zheleva

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**跨學科視角：新資訊科技在全球難民危機中的角色，包括手機、無線網路和生物識別技術。**

當今的全球難民危機促使人道主義努力，幫助那些逃離迫害和武裝衝突的人們，無論是在他們旅程的哪個階段。援助組織越來越多地在其使命中運用新資訊科技，利用日益普及的手機、遠端感測器、無線網路和生物識別系統。《數位生命線？》探討了人道主義社群如何使用這些技術創新，涵蓋從預測難民流動到為流離失所者提供行動電話和網際網路連接的操作和系統。來自國際法和計算機科學等多個學科的貢獻者，提供了對強迫移民、技術發展和使用者行為的多樣化視角，並基於在約旦、黎巴嫩、盧旺達、德國、希臘、美國和加拿大等國的實地研究。

各章節考慮了以下主題：在難民身份認定中使用資訊科技；圍繞生物識別技術的倫理和法律問題；組織層級中的資訊科技；難民使用科技的情況；難民營中的接入問題；人道工作中資訊科技創新的可擴展性和可持續性；地理資訊系統和空間思維；以及使用「大數據」分析技術。最後，本書確定了政策研究方向，制定了統一的研究議程，並提供了進行流離研究的實用建議。

**貢獻者**
Elizabeth Belding, Karen E. Fisher, Daniel Iland, Lindsey N. Kingston, Carleen F. Maitland, Susan F. Martin, Galya Ben-Arieh Ruffer, Paul Schmitt, Lisa Singh, Brian Tomaszewski, Mariya Zheleva

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