Slowly, and surely, just as the sun begins to swoon over the Hudson River and another Amtrak honks its way past Rhinebeck, delivering its digital refugees upstream, I begin to sense the world between the covers, much as I sense the world around me, a world corporeal and complete, a world that doesn't need the press of my thumb, because here beneath the weeping willow tree my input is meaningless.
The three month outage forced the hand of Africa's largest telecom (MTN), halted operations of its leading e-commerce startup (Jumia), and created digital refugees.
The three month outage forced the hand of Africa's largest telecom, halted operations of its leading e-commerce startup, and created digital refugees.
The government of Cameroon ended its internet blackout of parts of the country last week, according to news reports and confirmation from the country's Ambassador to the U.S. The three month outage forced the hand of Africa's largest telecom, halted operations of its leading e-commerce startup, and created digital refugees.
With the dependency on electrons beginning to sink in, digital information refugees began to ration the battery power on their portable devices like water.
The country succeeded only after the refugees' digital cash system was in place — an example of locals benefiting in some ways from hosting refugees.
Europe's Migrant Trail, Through the Instagrams of Refugees Following the "digital breadcrumbs" left by refugees on social media.
In summer 2018, Duke students had the unique opportunity to participate in a new global education program in Berlin that combined academic study of the cultural and geopolitical implications of migration to Europe from the Middle East with an internship with Kiron Open Higher Education, an NGO that offers open access digital education to refugees.
The project "Refugees go digital" is a series of workshops that addresses young refugees in so-called 'International Preparation Classes' in Hamburg/Germany - This story is written by Theresa Grotendorst, App Camps Germany.
