Connectivity and Migration

The joint cooperation between Egypt and Jordan in the field of labor management aims at creating a safe, fair and stable work environment for Egyptian workers in Jordan and their employers. The Egyptian Ministry of Manpower and Immigration and the Jordanian Ministry of Labour are the main stakeholders. They are jointly responsible for the implementation of the 2007 Memorandum of Understating (MoU) and the 2016 Labor Agreement and managing the jointly-established channels of communication, as well as consultation mechanism. 

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This contribution is a chapter of the World Migration Report 2018.

This chapter examines the salience and impact of developments in technology enabling greater transnational connectivity on migration.

The TESDA Online Program (TOP) is an open educational resource that aims to make technical education more accessible to Filipino citizens through the use of information and communication technologies. TOP provides an effective and efficient way to deliver technical education and skills development services to a broader audience/wide range of users/all learners at a lesser cost.

eMigrate project is a transformational initiative of the Overseas Employment Division of MEA, Government of India, to automate the current emigration processes and eco-system.

The ministry has undertaken this transformational e-governance program with a vision to transform emigration into a simple, transparent, orderly and humane process.

The project, cofinanced by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, aims to optimise the transition between pre-integrative language-learning, information and advice courses abroad and initial language teaching, as well as further integration measures provided by the Federal Government in Germany.

Tunisia has set up and created a Ministry of Development of Information Technologies in 2012 as well developed a five year national digital strategy up to 2018 to allow for better connectivity both within community and internationally with partners abroad and especially with Tunisian diaspora.

Kiron Open Higher Education  is a social start-up founded in 2014 with the aim of removing existing barriers and provide higher education to refugees. The university  offers an innovative combination of online and offline learning to provide accessible, sustainable, and cost-effective education. Kiron  is investing in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to facilitate integration of migrants through education.

FUNZI  is a joint initiative by a start up and the government of Finland to carve a map of the places where refugees are arriving in Finland and to provide them all the information they need on the country. In 2015, they launched a mobile information and learning service for asylum seekers and refugees.  The information for the newcomers on the country is in several languages. 

Prometeo Viejos Sabios is an initiative established by the government of Ecuador  to do skill mapping of diaspora and using the skills of diaspora to meet the needs of the country.  This includes identifying  the skilled migrants living abroad and the kind of projects they engage with and based on the needs of the country. They try to attract the migrants back temporarily or permanently so that they could contribute to scientific or health projects in Ecuador.  

The Programa RAICES, Argentina is an initiative to reach out to expatriate researchers and encourage them to contribute to the national S&T system ant to develop scientific cooperation and research networks using connectivity.  Migrants can contribute from abroad and this is one way the Argentinian government can foster the return of skilled migrants.