Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration

Introduction.- Part 1 - The relevance of ICTs in migration.- Minority rights.- Migration knowledge production and the shaping of perceptions of Europe.- Integrate services to integrate migrants.- Part 2 - Reviewing perspectives and experiences.- The Challenges and opportunities of ICT along the Road to Europe.- From a digital breach to a usage and positioning gap.- Developing migration focused ICT tools with marginalised groups.- ICTs and Migration.- The Challenges of co-design and co-creation for migrant integration.- Easing migrants' access to public services.- Part 3 - Developing migration-related ICTs.- Micado Architecture.- The challenges of co-creation processes on developing ICT solutions for migrant inclusion.- Experiences from the development of ICT tools for and with migrants through NADINE platform.- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in designing AI-based solutions for migrants integration: REBUILD project.- Skill matching for migrant guidance based on AI tools.- Personalisedinteraction or how we can improve migrants' experience when using a digital companion through a mobile app.- Immerse Architecture.- Authoring tools for young migrants.- Part 4 - Legal, ethical and societal considerations.- Assessing the socio-economic, technological and political impact of ICT tools for migrant integration.- Protecting Migrants' Data.- Shaping ICT policies for integrative and inclusive digital services.- Legal and Ethical Frameworks Applicable to Social Media Analytics in the Context of Migration.- The Legal Framework Applicable to the Design and Use of ICTs in Migrants' Integration.- Conclusion.

Professor Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has more than 130 refereed publications in international journals and conferences on strategic information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM) and intelligence management. He is member of editorial boards of several international journals and has acted as Chair and Program Committee Member for numerous international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in the development, management and execution of KM-projects and large international security initiatives (e.g., the application of social media in crisis management, intelligence-based combating of terrorism and organised crime, gun crime, cyber-crime and cyber terrorism, and cross-cultural ideology polarisation). In addition to this, he acts as technical lead in EU security projects (e.g., the EU H2020-project TENSOR on dark web). He has co-edited numerous books on Intelligence Management, for instance, Emerging Trends in ICT Security, Application of Big Data for National Security, Open Source Intelligence Investigation and Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism. Prof Akhgar is board member of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) and member of the Academic Advisory Board of SAS UK.

 

Dr Karen Latricia Hough obtained her doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She specialised in Refugee Studies and received many important awards for her research including the Vice Chancellorships' Award and the Bagby Award at the University of Oxford.  She has written evidence for the Home Affairs Commission and published a variety of articles in Oxford University Press, Franco Angeli, and Open Democracy.  Her research focuses on the development of Asylum and Immigration