Initial migrant videos from South Africa

Why?

The UNESCO Chair in ICT4D‘s work package (WP9) within the MIDEQ Hub is explicitly intended to be an intervention package, using our research to facilitate migrants and tech developers to craft something together that will reduce the inequalities in the lives of migrants (for more information, see the end of this page).

In South Africa our discussions led by Dr. Maria Rosa Lorini with migrants, academics, civil society organisations, international agencies and companies since 2019 came up with the idea of training migrants to create their own short videos that would provide useful information for other migrants to help them improve their lives. While we initially thought that this would focus especially on the wise, secure and safe use of digital tech, it was clear that the migrants also wanted to share other tips and advice, from beauty treatments to tips on setting up your own small business. We don’t guarantee that these tips will necessarily achieve all that is claimed, but we are curating these videos here so that others can access them freely and learn from them. We do, though, guaranteee that they have all been developed by migrants themselves (from Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe), and we hope that those who we have helped train will go on to train others and share more migrant videos that will contribute to the betterment of their lives.

The videos made in 2022

Watch this great 33 second introduction to catch a glimpse of how these videos were made in Johannesburg (just click on the image, the links beneath or scan the 2D barcode).

Click here, or use this link https://bit.ly/UNESCOICT4D-r-ZA-00

And see below for how the videos were made in Cape Town (58 seconds) (again just click on the image, the links beneath or scan the 2D barcode):

Click here, or use this link https://bit.ly/UNESCOICT4D-r-ZA-CT00

Watch and listen to these videos about what these migrants had to say about the training they received on video production and the safe, wise and secure use of digital tech.

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The videos are grouped into three sections:

• Wise, safe and secure use of digital technologies
• Important issues facing migrants
• Lifestyle and entrepreneurial matters

Videos marked with a (J) were made by migrants in Johannesburg, and those with (CT) were made by those in Cape Town.

Please note that all these videos were made by migrants to reflect their opinions about the subject matter at the time they were made, and both their views and any legal issues discussed may well have changed subsequently.

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To watch the videos in the sections below, simply click on the images to the left, scan the 2D barcodes on the right, or use the highlighted links under the text. The migrants who made these videos would be delighted if you would like to share them and make use of them, but please do acknowledge their names and that they are made available through the work of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London as part of MIDEQ WP9 on migrants, digtital tech and inequality.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons – Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wise, safe and secure use of digital technologies

This set of videos made by migrants in South Africa in 2022 focuses on advice about how to use digital technologies wisely, safely and securely

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Important issues facing migrants

The videos in this section, also frm 2022, raise awareness about some of the most important issues (from mental health to urban waste) that face migrants and offer suggestions for how migrants can respond to them.

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Lifestyle and entrepreneurial matters

This section provides advice by migrants on lifestyle issues that they face. There are some great tips here!

Getting to know where you live

Make-up, hair styling and body care

Art and drawing

Careers, business creation and advertising

Dancing, sport and fitness

Cooking, food and drink

Health

Other and miscellaneous

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Migrant feedback

Learn more about the training provided to the migrants, and their feedback (as part of our commitment to rigorous monitoring and evaluation) by watching these further videos.

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The UNESCO Chair in ICT4D’s contribution to the MIDEQ Hub in South Africa

The UNESCO Chair in ICT4D‘s contribution to the MIDEQ Hub’s WP9 in South Africa is primarily led by Dr. Maria Rosa Lorini (Post-Doctoral Research Assistant), supported by our two Co-Investigators, Professor G. Hari Harindranath and Professor Tim Unwin (Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D). We work closely with the MIDEQ Country Lead, Dr. Faisal Garba (Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town), and are very grateful for his support and that of the UCT team. We are also most grateful for support in kind provided by two of our Partners, The Scalabrini Centre (Cape Town and Johannesburg) and the GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation (The Connected Society and Connected Women Programmes). Colleagues and staff from the following organisations contributed very significantly to delivering the workshops and providing advice on the production of these videos (in alphabetical order) and we are especially grateful to them all:

• Stoneintheshoe
• Rainbow media
• SIHMA
• UNISA Information Systems Department

Further details of our work for MIDEQ can be accessed here, and our working papers on migration and digital tech can be found here. Please use our Contacts Page to get in touch with the team.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons – Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Latest version of page updated on 3 May 2023

(First version of page created on 29 November 2022)