Abstract
Migration flows into Europe in the last decade necessitate the development of innovative policies that consider migrants’ integration while ensuring national and regional interests. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play an effective role in facilitating such integration. Thus, ICT development and diffusion must be considered when developing migration policies in EU Member States to maximise impact and reduce barriers to deployment. Building on the recent Joint Migration Policy Whitepaper, which has been prepared by six European projects working on ICT-enabled integration, the chapter highlights the major challenges in this area and presents a set of policy recommendations for boosting digitalisation in public authorities. It sheds the light on the importance of standardised data and harmonised information and applications to facilitate access to public services that targets migrants, the significance of enhancing accessibility to services that consider security and data protection issues and the sustainability of deployed solutions through effective partnerships.
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MIICT, REBUILD, NADINE, MICADO, WELCOME and EASYRIGHTS projects have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement numbers 822380, 822215, 822601, 822717, 870930 and 870980. However, the opinions expressed herewith are solely of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the point of view of any EU institution.
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Huber, F. et al. (2022). Shaping ICT Policies for Integrative and Inclusive Digital Services. In: Akhgar, B., Hough, K.L., Abdel Samad, Y., Saskia Bayerl, P., Karakostas, A. (eds) Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93266-4_21
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