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Millions of refugees could benefit from big data – but we're not using it

  • Written by Anirudh V. S. Ruhil, Professor of Leadership & Public Affairs, Ohio University
Hindu women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait for their turn to collect aid at refugee camp in September 2017.AP Photo/Dar Yasin

Today, 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced within their home countries – more than at any other point since the U.N. Refugee Agency began collecting data. Many countries have...

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