For a long time, it seemed that the bandwagon of people who wanted to work on interesting social issues relating to technology, digital technology and design etc. essentially all falling under the general rubric of ‘humanitarian innovation’ were literally moving en...
Data is important. Obviously. UNHCR sits on a data goldmine. Data is gathered, circulated, cleaned, analysed, continuously visualised, every second of every day, in emergencies, through to durable solutions. From registration, to financial verifications of partnership...
Administration is probably the first contact point anyone has in the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). In reality, everything we do has a sort of administration process linked to it. When one of us joined UNHCR in November 2007, an era that was already embracing Facebook and...
Don’t start with a boat. Don’t show it lurching on the waves, a crush of terrified people packed elbow to ribcage, a baby crying. Don’t focus on their past: the homes they left, the loved ones lost, the bribes paid, the calculations made and agonized over. Instead,...
A partir de l’été 2015, les réfugiés plus nombreux arrivant en Europe ont été reçus avec un sentiment de crainte, un manque de structures d’accueil adaptées et la fermeture de frontières. Mais leur arrivée a aussi créé un sursaut de solidarité en Europe. A travers...
As of Summer 2015, the increased numbers of refugees arriving in Europe were received with a feeling of fear, lack of proper reception facilities, and the closing of borders. But it also created a wake-up call for solidarity in Europe. We witnessed across the...
