Diaspora Engagement in the Era of Digitalization (DEED)

  • Start Date
    2019
  • End Date
    2022
  • Project Status
    Completed
  • Project Type
    Transfer of migrant knowledge and resources
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    300000.00
  • Coverage
    Global
  • Year
    2019
  • IDF Region
    Global
  • Prima ID
    CH10P0503
  • Projects ID
    TK.0003
  • Benefiting Member States
    Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad China Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Georgia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras India Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Federated States of Micronesia Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger North Macedonia Pakistan Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Republic of Moldova Türkiye Rwanda Serbia Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Republic of Tanzania Uzbekistan Vanuatu Viet Nam Zambia Zimbabwe Senegal Solomon Islands Sudan Tuvalu Nigeria Saint Lucia
Facilitating diaspora engagement is not a new area in policies or programmes. However, the modern era of digitalization creates new opportunities and modalities for a more efficient and effective diaspora engagement, enabling larger scope and impact, easier scaling up and stronger sustainability. IOM has started embracing new opportunities created by the 4th Industrial Revolution by piloting novel forms of collaboration with diaspora communities at national, regional and global levels, as well as collecting relevant data and monitoring impact. One such unique initiative aimed at global level knowledge consolidation and collaboration is an online platform, IDiaspora.org, that was officially launched at IOM`s Council side event in October 2018. IDiaspora.org is a community driven digital venue, facilitated by IOM and an external Advisory Board, that aims at consolidating IOM`s and other partners` gender sensitive diaspora engagement experiences by providing easy access to global connections, content, commentary, business and educational opportunities on diaspora engagement. By providing support to the development of the IDiaspora.org platform, the proposed project will contribute to the empowerment of transnational communities of all genders, governments and development cooperation partners in becoming more effective in their partnership on development in the era of digitalization.