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JSIS 495: Task Force - Winter 2017: Task Force H
Design a Human Rights App! Information Systems for Central American Refugees
Angelina Godoy TTh 2:30-4:20 BLD 286
This class is sponsored by the UW Center for Human Rights in collaboration with Los Angeles-based immigrant rights organization, El Rescate. This Task Force will create an information management system to strengthen advocates' ability to fight for the rights of Central American refugees, including unaccompanied minors, who are crossing US borders in what's been called a "humanitarian crisis."... El Rescate has asked the UW Center for Human Rights to collaborate in designing a secure "app" or information management system that could help track these cases, where multiple service providers could enter information into a single casefile developed collaboratively as clients migrate.
Suggested Keywords
| refugee* | united states | human rights | apps |
| migrant | central america* | immigrant rights | information management system |
| migrant* | los angeles | refugee rights | ICTs (information and communication technologies) |
| migration | el salvador | technology |
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Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies by ISBN: 9781466619180Publication Date: 2013Book available at UW Libraries
- Human Rights & Human Security PrimerThis primer seeks to highlight and anticipate the emergent complexities at the intersection of data, human rights, and human security.
- Human Rights AppsFrom Technology and Human Rights website.