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ID2020 Alliance will host its annual Summit on September 14 in New York City at Convene and the United Nations.

In August, an ambitious data collection exercise was jointly launched by UNHCR, the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, and the National Institute of Statistics (INS) to map and improve data on statelessness in the country.

Gender advocates Mayra Buvinic and Baroness Goudie discuss the potential of mobile banking and savings for women’s economic empowerment.

Social media, due to their brevity, have the power to ask pertinent questions. However, answers to complex questions might take longer to formulate. Lacking the famous crystal ball, we cannot be certain about what the future has in store for humanitarian aid. But trends can give us a hint.  

UNHCR and LIGHTest are collaborating on an innovative process of identification, eligibility and selection of refugees who want to pursue higher education.

Angola is the fifteenth country in Africa to roll-out PRIMES, UNHCR’s new Population Registration and Identity Management EcoSystem.

In his new article, The president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, Brad Smith, calls for government regulation and for the development of norms around acceptable uses around facial recognition technology.

Show me your phone and I’ll believe who you are. The German civil society blog netzpolitik.org on a new procedure that allows the authorities to analyze the data on mobile phones and computers of asylum seekers whose identity cannot be established otherwise.

On 12 July, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres established a High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation.

UNHCR first Innovation Award has been officially launched during UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs.

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, from UNHCR Field Information and Coordination Support Section (FICSS), presents The Demographic Projection Tool, a tool for creating scientific population projections of Persons of Concern using simple demographic principles.