Keeya-Lee Ayre
Monday 15 February, 2021
Blog | blog | Colombia | English | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugees and forced migrants
In March 2020, the GSMA and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) asked Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Barranquilla, Colombia, to tell us about the importance of mobile connectivity in their lives. They shared their own stories using the medium of their choice, with control over creative direction and narrative.
When developing this project, we started with a simple question: how can we best support displaced people to share their own stories, with their own creative control, and use our platforms to amplify these?