Past Conferences and Quarterly Seminars
JDC Seminar | New and Upcoming KoboToolbox Features
The Center held a virtual seminar on New and Upcoming KoboToolbox Features on May 26th at 15:00 CET (09:00 EST). The goal of the seminar is for practitioners to learn about new and upcoming features developed by Kobo Inc, the non-profit behind KoboToolbox. JDC and UNHCR have partnered with Kobo Inc. to create additional features and enhancements for the benefit of organizations working to assist and protect displaced populations.
JDC participates in the 2022 Fragility Forum
From March 7th -15, The Center participated in the Fragility Forum hosted by the World Bank. The Center has produced a podcast conversation on the “The next ten years of the Mosaic Effect: minimizing disclosure risk from multiple sources in an ever-growing data ecosystem” as part of the Fragility Forum.
2nd Research Conference on Forced Displacement
The JDC’s 2nd Research Conference on Forced Displacement was held on January 20-22, 2022 in partnership with the School of Economics at Universidad de los Andes.
Joint Data Center Webinar – Answering the Call: Forcibly Displaced During the Pandemic
JDC Webinar - Answering the Call: Forcibly Displaced During the Pandemic The Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) recently published a working paper, called Answering the Call: Forcibly Displaced During the Pandemic, the second issue as part of the JDC...
Making the most vulnerable visible: Data gaps and official statistics on forced displacement| UNWDF EGRIS-JDC Session
Making the most vulnerable visible: Data gaps and official statistics on forced displacement EGRIS-JDC UNWDF Session © UNHCR/Georgina GoodwinThe Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) in collaboration with The Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced...
Strategic Advisory Council 2021
Participate in the Joint Data Center’s third Strategic Advisory Council, where the focus will be on the efforts of pursuing the Center’s third Strategic Objective: Enhance Safe and Responsible Data Access.
Data for what? A conversation with policymakers and practitioners on the use of evidence and data on forced displacement
The role of data in policymaking was at the center of this seminar organized by the JDC as part of its Quarterly Seminar Series and which also represented the JDC contribution to the UN World Data Forum 2020.
Seminar on Perception Surveys among Displaced Populations
The JDC held a seminar on Perception Surveys among Displaced Populations – Lessons Learned and Innovations, with Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Anonymization and Aggregation Workshop: De-identification & Access to Microdata
A two-day workshop was organized in May in conjunction with the Government of Estonia to advance anonymization and aggregation practices as a first step in establishing a campaign to make UNHCR’s registration data more accessible.