Digital Tukul
UNHCR Blog on Digital Inclusion
Real Time Data: Uganda Identity Verification Exercise
UNHCR and the authorities in Uganda are currently undertaking a massive identity verification exercise using biometrics to register more than one million refugees. You are now able to follow the operation by looking at the Real Time Verification Dashboard.
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3 things you need to know about blockchain
We asked Doug Greene, our Chief Information Officer, everything you ever wanted to know about blockchain and how it could affect the humanitarian world and UNHCR.
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New World Bank-UNHCR joint data centre to improve global statistics on forced displacement
The World Bank Group UNHCR are joining forces to greatly improve statistics on refugees, other displaced people and host communities.
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Internet boosts assistance & protection for people displaced by Boko Haram
Within the framework of the Refugee Coordination Model, RETS provides vital internet connectivity and security communications services…
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Filippo Grandi: “Data is at the heart good decision-making”
On 12 December 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited Diffa region in Niger
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Opportunities in the New Digital Age
Many of the systems and processes used today for humanitarian purposes were designed decades ago, and these outdated tools and platforms are being rethought given recent advances in technology.
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This interactive map will give the most detailed picture of the Rohingya crisis
proGres version 4 is now live in Belarus
From first contact to durable solutions – how an innovative cloud-based system is boosting efficiency in refugee case management
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UNHCR is working with the Government to collect crucial data to boost support to refugees in Bangladesh
Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) launched a family counting exercise with the support of UNHCR, to identify protection needs and harmonize assistance.
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In an increasingly interconnected world not everybody benefits from access to digital services and content.
This blog explores the opportunities the digital age brings to improve the protection and welfare of the people we care for: asylum seekers, refugees, IDPs, stateless and all other forcibly displaced men, women and children. We want to reflect, argue, inform, innovate, and take action: Nobody should be left behind!