The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

With digital equipment becoming increasingly networked, either on wired or wireless networks, for personal and professional use alike, distributed software systems have become a crucial element in information and communications technologies. The study of these systems forms the core of the ARLES' work, which is specifically concerned with defining new system software architectures, based on the use of emerging networking technologies. In this context, we concentrate on the study of distributed systems which bring to life the vision of ubiquitous computing systems, also known as ambient intelligence.

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Ethnic Groups in Conflict

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

4. UNHCR notes with concern that although the country acceded to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in 1999, incorporation of the 1951 Convention obligations into national legislation and normative acts has been slow and to date Kazakhstan has failed to comply with its obligation to give full effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order, inter alia providing for effective judicial and other remedies for violations of these rights

United Nations High Commission for Refugees

Peacekeeping operations, mandated through the United Nations and regional bodies, play an increasingly diverse role in the economic development of post-conflict countries. A key way that missions can use their administrative capacity to support economic recovery is developing effective technology use and acquisition strategies in host countries, which is a peacekeeping-wide policy goal outlined in the high-level Performance Peacekeeping report. Our paper introduces the theoretical channels through which missions’ use of information communication technologies (ICTs) can support local economic development in post-conflict settings, making a theoretical argument that draws on both the literature on ICTs in peacekeeping and in economic development. We specify a Cobb–Douglas model that describes the potential impact of peacekeeping mission-led ICT investment on longer term economic development in combination with statistics on mission technology spending and internet use in host countries, providing a formal scaffold for our theoretical argument. Using this model and data in combination with a case study of the Central African Republic-based United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic mission, we argue that peacekeeping missions should use their purchasing power and stabilizing influence to attract value-added technology investment to support economic development.

Peacekeeping's Digital Economy: The Role of Communication Technologies in Post-Conflict Economic Growth

Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges

Information and communications technology (ICT), primarily mobile telephones and social media, is increasingly important in crisis and disaster response in developing countries. This fact raises an important question: in an information environment that includes traditional media such as radio and television, who are the people that trust information from ICT enough to act on it during a disaster? Drawing on a case study of and original survey data from the island nation of the Independent State of Samoa, this paper yields insights into who uses new technologies, particularly mobile telephones, to make decisions at the local level during crises such as natural disasters, as well as the socio-political factors that motivate their behaviour. The results add to the growing pool of knowledge on utilisation of ICT and new technologies in developing countries for disaster response, and provide practical information on the social and political factors that lead people to trust different information sources and media.

When information becomes action: drivers of individuals' trust in broadcast versus peer-to-peer information in disaster response.

Over the last 10 years, the dramatic increase in access to information communications technologies (ICTs) in developing countries has spurred popular efforts to use them for crisis response and violence prevention. As access to mobile phones and the internet has expanded, a key question remains: Do people actually use these tools for participation in governance processes? The results from my case studies and survey data strongly indicate that they do not. Even among groups we expect to be technologically savvy, for example the young, urban and/or wealthy, patterns of information gathering during crisis are still oriented toward traditional broadcast media and elite messaging. Instead, the evidence from my case studies and surveys indicate that people make decisions about the validity and actionability of information during crises based on complex social and political factors that are tangentially related to technology access.

When Information Becomes Action: How Information Communication Technologies Affect Collective Action During Crises

Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Angenendt, S., Martin-Shields, C., & Schraven, B. (2017). More development more migration? The "migration hump" and its significance for development policy co-operation with sub-Saharan Africa. (SWP Comment, 40/2017). Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWPDeutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit. https://nbnresolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55014-9

Charles Martin-Shields

Papers

Peacekeeping's Digital Economy: The Role of Communication Technologies in Post-Conflict Economic Growth

Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges

When information becomes action: drivers of individuals' trust in broadcast versus peer-to-peer information in disaster response.

When Information Becomes Action: How Information Communication Technologies Affect Collective Action During Crises

More development - more migration? The "migration hump" and its significance for development policy co-operation with sub-Saharan Africa