Blog Dubai Cares Announces E-Cubed Round 2 Winners We are pleased to share today's announcement from Dubai Cares on the Evidence for Education in Emergencies (E-Cubed) second round of research investments.
Resource Social Support Networks, Instant Messaging, and Gender Equity in Refugee Education This paper addresses the role of instant messaging chat groups to support teacher training and gender equity initiatives in Kenyan refugee camps.
Resource World Around You World Around You is an open source, web-based authoring platform that allows for the creation and distribution of multilingual signed stories with written text across the Internet.
Resource Crossing the Digital Divide: Applying Technology to the Global Refugee Crisis In this report, the authors analyze technology uses, needs, and gaps, as well as opportunities for better using technology to help displaced people and improving the operations of responding agencies. The authors also examine inherent ethical, security, and privacy considerations; explore barriers to the successful deployment of technology; and outline some tools for building a more systematic approach to such deployment.
Resource An overview of ICT for education of refugees and IDPs This study includes a number of case studies selected to present a diversity of different types of technology projects operating to address education needs in IDP and refugee camps. This rapid review drew largely on synthesis studies, evaluative papers and some grey literature.
Resource Guidelines for Designing Inclusive Digital Solutions and Developing Digital Skills This publication puts forward guidelines to help today’s technology pioneers build more inclusive digital solutions. They show private sector companies, NGOs, international organizations and governments what factors to consider, questions to ask and processes to follow when developing solutions for people with limited literacy skills and low digital skills (referred to as ‘low-skilled users’ in the context of this publication).
Resource Checklist for ICT Interventions to Support Education in Crisis and Conflict Settings This ICT in EiCC checklist focuses on the intersection of conflict sensitivity principles and ICT design approaches to help ensure that an ICT supported intervention designed to support education activities in a country or community is conflict sensitive.
Resource Antura and the Letters: Impact and technical evaluation In this design, we compared growth in literacy outcomes for two groups of children, each using one of the games, to a group of children in matched environments who did not have access to the games. All children in the study had little or no schooling and lived in the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan.
Resource Assessing the impact of literacy learning games for Syrian refugee children: An executive overview of Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster impact evaluations This report provides an executive overview of the impact evaluations of two winning literacy apps, Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster, in the EduApp4Syria competition.
Resource Feed the Monster: Impact and technical evaluation In this design, we compared growth in literacy outcomes for two groups of children (each using one of the apps) to a group of children in matched environments who did not have access to the apps. All children in the study had little or no schooling and lived in the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan. This design relies on comparing two groups that experience the same historical trends and events over time.
