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IOM-UN MIGRATION

Innovative Data for Labour Migration Policy

IOM and the Big Data for Migration Alliance (BD4M) Hold Workshop on Exploring the Use of Innovative Data for Labour Migration...

Data Migration Publication

Ethical Considerations in Re-Using Private Sector Data for Migration-Related Policy: A Practitioners’ Perspective

A new paper by IOM-GMDAC

The past decade has witnessed the rapid growth of non-traditional data (social media, mobile phones, satellite data, bank records, etc.) and...

Data and Migration Guest Blog

Data and displacement: Ethical and practical issues in data-driven humanitarian assistance for IDPs

A guest blog by Professor Vicki Squire

Ten years since the so-called “data revolution” (Pearn et al, 2022), the rise of “innovation” and the proliferation...

DATA INNOVATION EVENT GUEST...

Unlocking the potential of innovative data sources, tools, and methods in Africa: Current trends and prospects for better information in migration-related policymaking

Introduction: Pioneering migration data innovation initiatives in the African context In the information age, more data are produced than...

DIGITAL SELF-DETERMINATION...

How Can We Ensure the Digital Self-Determination of Migrants?

Highlights from the Second Studio on Digital Self Determination and Migration

By Hannah Chafetz, Uma Kalkar, Marine Ragnet, Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew J. Zahuranec In 2020, prior to the crisis in Ukraine, the United...

Digital Self-Determination...

Digital Self-Determination as a Tool for Migrant Empowerment

Takeaways from the First Studio on Digital Self Determination and Migration

In 2020, there were an estimated 281 million migrants, accounting for 3.6% of the global population. Migrants move for a variety of...

BD4M In the News

Migration: How Can Data Help Migrants?

Delving into efforts to establish data collaboratives, Andrew Young, The GovLab’s Knowledge Director, contributed a blog post to OECD’s Development Matters.

In recent years, stakeholders have pursued data innovations to enhance the ways in which decisions are made on migration. Delving into...

Data Innovation Event Guest...

Strengthening CRVS Systems to Improve Migration Policy: A Promising Innovation

Migration is one of the most pressing issues of our time and innovation for migration policy can take on several different shapes to help...

Data Innovation Event Guest...

Sea level rise and migration flows in Africa: what we can learn from a recent study on Bangladesh

Pietro De Lellis (Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples,...

Special Collection

BD4M, in partnership with Data & Policy, Launches Data and Migration Policy Special Collection

In close collaboration with the Big Data for Migration Alliance  Data & Policy, an open access journal by Cambridge University...

BD4M Studio Report

Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

READ THE REPORT  Today, the Big Data for Migration Alliance (BD4M) is releasing the report, “Designing Data Collaboratives to...

IOM-UN Migration

Using Big Data to Understand Migration (Part 1)

Ingmar Weber, Research Director at Qatar Computing Research Institute, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This...

IOM-UN Migration

Using Big Data to Understand Migration (Part 2)

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of The Governance Lab, shares his views on the use of big data to...

IOM-UN Migration

Using Big Data to Understand Migration (Part 3)

Alessandro Sorichetta, principal Research Fellow at the WorldPop Programme, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration....

IOM - UN Migration

Using “Big Data” to forecast migration

A tale of high expectations, promising results and a long road ahead

Reposted from the IOM - UN Migration Medium Publication Act 1 — High Expectations “Data is the new oil,” they say....

BD4M In the News

Data innovation for migration: why now and how?

Now more than ever we need to invest in responsible data innovation for the analysis of mobility and migration

By Marzia Rango, Data Innovation and Capacity-Building Coordinator at the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), IOM – UN...

STATAFRIC and IOM GMDAC...

Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa

The African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) and IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) organized a webinar on...

BD4M Webinar Series

Estimating Migrant Stocks and Flows Using Social Media Data

The first Big Data for Migration (BD4M) webinar titled "Estimating migrant stocks and flows using social media data" took place on 3...

Immigration & emigration...

The Data Innovation Directory: Unlocking the potential of big data for migration policy

Reposted from Migration Data Portal Whether we love it or loathe it, technology affects almost every aspect of our lives and it is likely to...

Immigration & emigration...

Are migrants left behind? How COVID-19 hinders better migration data

Reposted from Migration Data Portal Migrants worldwide play an important role in sectors vital to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic but are...