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Are refugee numbers the highest ever?
Notwithstanding the difficulty of reporting high-quality data on refugees, and the political obstacles impacting data collection and the reliability of data sources, UNHCR is taking extra steps to ensure accuracy in its reporting of refugee data.
UNHCR and LIGHTest team up to provide refugees with new digital solutions for education
UNHCR and LIGHTest are collaborating on an innovative process of identification, eligibility and selection of refugees who want to pursue higher education.
UNHCR renew its registration and identity management tools in Angola
Angola is the fifteenth country in Africa to roll-out PRIMES, UNHCR’s new Population Registration and Identity Management EcoSystem.
Advanced technology and society: Facial recognition is no longer science fiction
In his new article, The president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, Brad Smith, calls for government regulation and for the development of norms around acceptable uses around facial recognition technology.
Asylum Procedure: Cell Phone Search Has No Benefits
Show me your phone and I’ll believe who you are. The German civil society blog netzpolitik.org on a new procedure that allows the authorities to analyze the data on mobile phones and computers of asylum seekers whose identity cannot be established otherwise.
New High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation
On 12 July, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres established a High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
UNHCR launches NGO Innovation Award
UNHCR first Innovation Award has been officially launched during UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs.
Can we look into the future? Using demographic models to project displaced populations
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, from UNHCR Field Information and Coordination Support Section (FICSS), presents The Demographic Projection Tool, a tool for creating scientific population projections of Persons of Concern using simple demographic principles.
Identity in Healthcare – A key Enabler to Integrated Care
Oudom Bresson, Chair of the Secure Identity Alliance ID4All Workgroup, introduces ‘Identity in Healthcare’, a publication that brings much-needed clarity and key recommendations to the ID challenge facing the health sector.
ID2020 accepting project proposals for digital identity pilots
If you or your organisation have an high-quality digital identity project, you can now submit your proposal to ID2020.
Empowering refugees and internally displaced persons through digital identity
This World Refugee Day, Nicholas Oakeshott (UNHCR), Jonathan Marskell (World Bank), Emily Weedon Chapman (World Bank), and Marie Benihirwe (UNHCR) reflect on the promising opportunities that a digital identity would offer to refugees.
Open for business: UNHCR brings connectivity to Monga
Bats, two-hour motorcycle rides, and river-crossings by pirogue – when it comes to getting remote field offices connected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNHCR’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) team take it all in their stride.