Learning Circle with the RLL’s Migration and Technology Monitor and Mozilla

From robo-dogs at the border to the surveillance of migrant workers, technologies now infiltrate every facet of migration. They sharpen an already violent border regime and infringe on people’s human rights. However, they can also be mechanisms of resistance, from improving communication among mobile communities through chatbots to using techno-archives for psychosocial support in refugee camps.

The Migration and Technology Monitor is an archive, a platform, and a community. In 2023, we launched our first of its kind fellowship for people-on-the-move to tell their own stories on the impacts of migration technologies. On April 25th, join us along with Mozilla and the Refugee Law Lab, York University, for a Learning Circle with our first five fellows: Verónica Martinez, reporter from Ciudad Juarez working on the CBP One facial recognition app. Nery Santaella, director of Voices of Venezuela, working on natural language processing and chatbots for refugees Wael Qarssifi, Syrian journalist reporting on the surveillance of refugees and people-on-the-move Rajendra Paudel, former migrant worker and now online influencer working on an app for knowledge sharing for other workers Simon Drotti, Data Analysis, Graphics and UX Designer, living in a refugee camp in Uganda working on a memory scroll archival application.

Moderated by RLL’s Petra Molnar and Florian Schmitz from the Migration and Technology Monitor

Register here: https://mozilla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qduiurjkiE9cMPdJh3eg82ba8inAkkxOo#/registration