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In recent years, technology solutions have emerged to transform migrant worker protection. Innovative tools offer to fill information gaps, promote fair recruitment processes, and capture the workers’ experiences within supply chains.
This webinar will seek to showcase four existing initiatives for Migrant workers in Southeast Asia and lessons learned regarding the development of effective platforms, improved accessibility and usage, and addressing risks to users and platform hosts. These technologies include blockchain, IVR, chatbots through Facebook and an App. We will also discuss the need to adapt to changes in tech usage throughout the region, and how applications may need to stay flexible to reflect and respond to changing consumer habits.
Speakers include:
Marja Paavilainen is the Senior Programme Officer for the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN, responsible for the programme’s regional level work and ASEAN engagement. TRIANGLE in ASEAN is a programme aiming to enhance the contribution of labor migration to stable and inclusive growth and development in the ASEAN region, implemented by the ILO in partnership with Global Affairs Canada and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. Marja has worked with the ILO since 2007 managing projects and providing technical advice on a range labor issues, including labor migration, forced labor, human trafficking, and non-discrimination. She has lived and worked in China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
David Vilchez recently joined the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission in Myanmar as the Communications and Reporting Officer where he specializes in strengthening the community outreach and communications for development components of the mission’s labor migration project portfolio. He first joined IOM in 2014 at its headquarters in Geneva and has since worked in development cooperation and communications roles for different organizations in a variety of countries, including Switzerland, Thailand, Japan, and Myanmar. David has a BA from the University of British Columbia, and an MA in International Relations from Waseda University in Tokyo. IOM's interactive Facebook chatbot, Miss Migration, encourages aspiring Myanmar migrants to find information from reliable and official sources so that they may make informed migration decisions.
Javier Sola has worked in Cambodia for the last 16 years on technological development, and specifically on the use of technology for development. As Program Director of the local NGO Open Institute, he has formulated and manages ICT4D projects in education, employment, migration, health, and child protection. Together with Winrock International he has designed and runs Bongpheak, an online employment information service optimized to reduce the risk of TIP and exploitation for low-skilled domestic migrants. He started his career as a Researcher on Artificial Intelligence in Paris in the 80s. From 1995 to 2003 he worked on Internet policy as Director of the Spanish Internet Users Association. He studied at Duke University and Ohio State University in the United States.
Phoebe Ewen is a project manager at The Mekong Club, a Hong Kong-based organization that works with private sector organizations to equip them in becoming industry leaders in the fight against modern slavery. Phoebe has a background working in financial services, specializing in financial crime compliance and anti-money laundering, with a strong belief in the role of the financial service sector in combatting this 150 billion dollar crime. She is involved in the eMin project, a partnership with Diginex, which uses blockchain technology to create transparency and security in labor supply chains. The eMin project is currently being implemented in a range of different industries in Thailand, Bahrain, and Malaysia.
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