Understanding Digital Risks: Protecting Displaced and Host Communities in the Digital Economy

In this episode, we discuss how digital risks pose significant challenges for refugees and host communities in the digital economy, from identity theft to privacy concerns and more. Our guest Dr Aaron Martin will explain how do we help people safely navigate and work in the digital economy, in particular on platform work?

A social scientist specializing in technology policy and data governance, Dr. Aaron Martin studies how regulation can facilitate just, inclusive, and secure digital societies. In addition to focusing on how transnational policy is established by international bodies and humanitarian organizations, he explores how users in historically marginalized communities, including refugees and other vulnerable people, understand and shape technology and its regulation. He is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Data Science at the University of Virginia.