Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2019 in Nigeria

[Sam Lanfranco]

Dear Colleagues, 
I have a comment here, but first a thanks to those who are building this
panel during the DRIF. This is an issue that will grow over time, even if
current conflicts subside. 
Much of the current attention of Refugee Digital Rights occurs in the
context of conflict displacement, with both internal and external refugees.
However, coming down the pipeline in the next 30-50 years will be a growing
number (a tsunami) of climate refugees, some internal and some forced to
leave their homelands. There is time to prepare to deal with those
migrations. The migration will be both complex and have complex
consequences. The impact of climate change (today) in Africa is being felt
in domestic agriculture, a sector in which the majority of the work is
conducted by women. The solutions will be both social and technical. One
can quickly see the complexity here, and how digital rights as part of ICT
for sustainable survival figure large in any sustainable survival (with
dignity) planning. 
All the best with the session and may this help plant the seeds of
something both big and viral.
Sam L. 
	------------------------------------------------ "It is a disgrace to be
rich and honored in an unjust state" -Confucius
邦有道，贫且贱焉，耻也。邦无道，富且贵焉，耻也
------------------------------------------------ Visiting Prof, Xi'an
Jiaotong-Liverpool Univ, Suzhou, China Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus),
Econ, York U., CANADA
Society for the Advancement of Science in Africa 
email: sam at lanfranco.net (mailto:sam at lanfranco.net) Skype: slanfranco blog:
https://samlanfranco.blogspot.com (https://samlanfranco.blogspot.com)
Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852


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