Sector Opportunities

The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. Funding of up to £300,000 per project is available, as well as mentoring, networking, project support and promotion. This funding round will test new technical solutions, catalyse ideas to ...
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In July 2019, the international journal Gender & Development will examine the theme of humanitarian action and crisis response through the lens of gender equality and women’s empowerment. G&D is a forum for the sharing of analysis and experience between feminist activists involved in development research, policy, and practice. We particularly welcome ...
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The Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) has an annual scholarship call for PhD applications are calling for projects that specifically address a range of priority PhD topics including: challenges of digital inclusion - access, diversity, participation, and skills; progressive online communities, with particular reference to ...
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The Working Group 9.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) gathers scholars and practitioners that deal with the issue on how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) affects social development. The theme for the upcoming 2019 IFIP WG 9.4 conference is: “Strengthening Southern-driven cooperation as a catalyst for ICT4D”. With the proliferation of ...
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For the second year, the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, is making a call for papers for a special edition of its official academic journal #ISOJ that will be entirely dedicated to one topic. This time, the theme will ...
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Articles are requested for the special issue of the journal Human Technology on "New media, mobility and placemaking". New media currently play a crucial role in the way migrants negotiate their travel routes and establish and maintain relations while moving and settling down. However, new media also influence and relate to various other forms of mobility-and ...
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This thematic issue focuses on research at the crossroads of forced migration. Global forced displacements are bringing challenges and opportunities for communication between host and refugee communities on all cultural, social, political, and economic levels. At the same time, the media is playing increasingly important roles in refugee situations around ...
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