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Datenverbrauch von Flüchtlingen übersteigt den von Airports
(Mobile data usage of refugees is greater than an airport's )
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | politics, smartphone
Summary | Refugees depend on their smartphones to access critical information and to stay in touch with their loved ones back home. This is why refugee shelter's number one request is that they offer the refugees broadband internet access. There is a huge telecommunications business catering to refugees' needs, offering the prepaid SIM cards and data packets for which they do not need a stable address.
Image Description | Two refugees in a shelter using a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Da hilft auch das Internet nicht
(The internet won't help with that)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, politics, smartphone, threat
Summary | The access to internet has been declared a basic human right because it was thought that the internet is the only way to access unbiased information that may be censored elsewhere. While it is true that the internet opens up a flood of information unavailable outside of it, it does not guarantee that people become less biased or more tolerant. This is exemplified by the clash of cultures which happened on New Year's Eve in Cologne where foreign refugees sexually harrassed German women publicly despite all having had smartphones and thus access to the internet which could have taught them that this is inappropriate behavior in Germany.
Image Description | Portrait of the author.
Image Tags | male(s)
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