FMR 38 Web-based monitoring in an insecure environment

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UNHCR has developed Project Tracking and IDP databases for its work in Iraq in order to facilitate its operations at a lower risk to all stakeholders and to improve financial accountability, oversight and transparency.

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Andrew Harper

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:13:50

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FMR 38 Remote visual evidence of displacement

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Geospatial technologies such as satellite imagery provide a means of 'reaching' a conflict zone when on-the-ground reporting may be too dangerous, a region too remote, or access denied.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:16:46

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FMR 38 Open access to scholarly research

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Forced migration authors hold the key to enabling free and unfettered access to the full text of research articles.

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Elisa Mason

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:05:54

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FMR 38 Luxembourg-UNHCR-Skype synergies

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A recent strategic partnership between UNHCR, the Government of Luxembourg and communications software provider Skype is keeping UNHCR staff in hardship locations in touch with their families and friends.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:11:26

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FMR 38 Access to information - inclusive or exclusive?

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Do new technologies increase access to information and knowledge for all, or are they deepening a technological divide?

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maternal health

Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:14:16

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FMR 38 Early warning of mass atrocity crimes

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The use of new technologies for early warning systems can help reduce people's vulnerability to mass violence.

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Phoebe Wynn-Pope

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:11:24

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FMR 38 Technology in aid of learning for isolated refugees

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The lack of higher education opportunities for refugees, many of whom flee before being able to complete their education, is a widely acknowledged problem.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:12:04

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FMR 38 The only constant is change

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Advances in information and communications technology are offering new solutions to a range of operational challenges experienced in the field. Can the humanitarian community's providers of telecommunications services keep up with the pace of change?

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Mariko Hall

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 16/04/2013

Duration: 00:13:28

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FMR 38 Disaster Response 2.0

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The traditional disaster response community is only now beginning to assimilate the vast changes that new technologies could bring for information management in their field.

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Jeffrey Villaveces

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