The complex network of digital interactions across migratory journeys is fraught with opacity, conflicting stakeholder interests, compounding human vulnerabilities and a fundamental lack of agency for communities to unlock the societal potential of data and its reliant systems.

 

In order to understand how to rebalance power in migration data systems towards value generation and mitigation of harm for people on the move, Aapti is mapping the ecosystem of digital technologies, key stakeholders, challenges and potential bottom-up alternatives in the mixed migration space. In our work, we prioritise the needs of people on the move, through on-ground engagement with impacted communities such as migrants, refugees, local community support groups as well as organised advocacy and grassroots groups to ensure that community-informed principles are translated into our recommendations.

 

Aapti aims to embed Global South perspectives and challenges while calibrating research to evolve stakeholder priorities, incentives and capacities allowing us to build toward sustainable feedback loops as we uncover the long-term implications of our research questions, and actionability of recommendations.