Cybersecurity for refugees by refugees
Challenge
Displaced people are at high risk of exposure to mis/disinformation, cybercrime, and cybersecurity risks, due to the increased collection of identifiable personal information, data breaches, and targeted attacks. Capacity among humanitarians and displaced communities to mitigate these digital risks is lacking.
Solution
Develop an educational programme (available as a web app) to build the capacity of humanitarian actors, refugees, and migrants in the areas of cybersecurity, cyber threats, and digital protection. These cybersecurity champions will cascade learnings across communities.
Impact
200 humanitarian staff members and more than 1,000 refugees and migrants directly benefit from strengthened digital skills and awareness to prevent and mitigate online risks like fraud, extortion, phishing, and more, spreading skills and awareness more widely.
Project impact
Other information
More than 10,000 multi-platform views of refugee-led content via cybersecurity content capsules developed as part of this project. Read more about the initiative in a Spanish-language UNHCR webstory.