The document discusses international migration trends and governance. It notes that the number of international migrants has doubled over the last 25 years and will continue growing rapidly. However, migration data is limited, hindering analysis of how to maximize its benefits. The document proposes several principles for improving global migration governance, including extending migrant rights and widening legal migration. It advocates for releasing open government data on migration to facilitate understanding and policymaking on this important issue. The project will examine challenges for sending countries in adopting open data on migration and the role of technology in cooperation across borders on migration issues.

1. OGD, ICT and the
Global eGovernance
of Migration

2. International movements of
people are one of the greatest
forces that shape and are
shaped by global
development
• Migrants Counts: 5 Steps Toward Better Migration Data

3. Human movement responds to
and shapes environmental
change; it responds to and
shapes political change; it
responds to and shapes the
needs and lives of families— it is
the human face of globalization
• Migrants Counts: 5 Steps Toward Better Migration Data

4. Over the last 25 years, the total number of
international migrants doubled... this growth trend
will be amplified over the next 50 years.
By the middle of the 21 century, st
our societies will be more diverse
than ever before. The global
community will be connected in a
manner not experienced since our
evolutionary origins in Africa.
Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balrajan “Execptional People: How Migration Shaped Our
World and Will Define Our Future” (Princeton U Press, 2011)

5. SUPPLY-SIDE FACTORS
persistent inter-country inequality and wage
disparities
economic growth in the poorest countries
rural displacement and urbanization;
rising education standards in developing
countries

6. SUPPLY-SIDE FACTORS - cont
growing working age population in developing
countries
environmental stress

7. DEMAND SIDE FACTORS
population decline and population aging
growing demand for low-skilled labor
national competitiveness and mobile skilled
labor

8. With more people on the move than even before,
new approaches to managing migration are
needed in order to maximize its benefits.
The 20th century assumption that
migration is strictly a national problem
is no longer valid.

9. CURRENT STATE
despite the inherently trans-boundary
nature of international migration &
the interdependence of states’
migration policies, there is no
formal multilateral institutional
framework regulating states’
responses to international
migration.
Alxander Betts “Global Migration Governance” GEG Working Paper 2008/43

10. Yet this is not to say that there is no
global migration governance.
What exists is a complex and
fragmented tapestry of
overlapping, parallel and nested
institutions.

11. global migration governance has two
defining characteristics.
1) embedded
regulated by areas of global
governance that are not explicitly
labelled as ‘int'l migration’ which
nonetheless regulate states’
responses to int'l migration.

12. global migration governance has two
defining characteristics.
2) multi-level
involving a range of institutions
at the bilateral, regional, inter-
regional, and informal networks
of states and other actors.

13. CONSEQUENCE
reinforces the centrality of power in the
int'l politics of migration
allowing relatively powerful states to
engage in forum-shopping
choosing between different institutions
that selectively include and exclude
partner states from cooperation on a
pragmatic basis.

14. GOAL
An international organization to
promote the sustainable
expansion of migration through
standard setting, advocacy, and
pushing forward multilateral
negotiations
– Exceptional People, p 282

15. INTERIM
Bilateral & regional arrangements
for standard setting, advocacy, and pushing forward
multilateral negotiations
Legislation at the national level to
craft more enlightened policies
» Exceptional People, p 284

16. PRINCIPLES FOR GLOBAL MIGRATION
GOVERNANCE
1. Extend transnational rights
2. Promote social and economic
advancement for migrants
3. Widen the umbrella of legal
migration;

17. PRINCIPLES FOR GLOBAL MIGRATION
GOVERNANCE
4. Combat xenophobia & migrant
abuse
5. improve data collection
» Execptional People

18. The data on international migration
that countries now collect and
publish are so limited... that we
know much less about how much
and what kind of migration is
happening in today’s world than
we know about international trade
and investment flows.
» Migrants Count

19. CONSEQUENCE
The poor state of migration data has
limited analysis of how to maximize
the benefits and minimize the costs
of migration for sending and
receiving countries and, as a result,
has stunted global understanding
and domestic political discourse on
a critical development issue .

20. 5 Recommendations on Migration Data
Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research and
Policy, March 2009
1. Ask basic census questions, &
make the tabulated answers
publicly available
2. Compile and release existing
administrative data
3. Centralize Labor Force Surveys

21. 5 Recommendations on Migration Data
Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research and
Policy, March 2009
4. Provide access to microdata,
not just tabulations
5. Include migration modules on
more existing household
surveys

22. OPEN DATA
is non-personally identifiable data
produced in the course of an
organisation’s ordinary business,
which has been released under an
unrestricted licence (like the Open
Government Licence).
• http://linkedgov.org/what-is-open-data/

23. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
data and information produced or
commissioned by government or
government controlled entities that
is free for anyone to use, re-use and
re-distribute.

24. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
Implies changing the default
assumption regarding public
information so that the prevailing
norm is that the data available to the
public is complete, rather than
selective, and withholding
information is the exception rather
than the role

25. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
necessitates shift from making
information available in response to
a specific request, known as
'reactive disclosure', to
preemptively releasing information,
commonly referred to as 'proactive
disclosure'

26. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
Requires more than accessibility in
theory, but also in practice,
measured by its usability.
Discoverability
Data in forms that facilitates its
use with minimum barriers – open
file formats, machine readable
files, etc.

27. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
Central to Open Government Data
is the idea that citizens should be
able to use and reuse data through
sharing it in its original form and/or
create new forms with minimal
limitations.

28. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
N.B.
The existence of machine-
readable formats dictates the
extent to which data can be
manipulated used and reused

29. THE PROJECT
SEMINAR ON OGD, ICT and
GLOBAL eGOVERNANCE of
MIGRATION
●
challenges faced by sending
countries in adopting OGD on
migration
●
role of ICT in bilateral, regional and
global cooperation on migration

30. COUNTRY PAPERS
2 Asian countries 2 LA countries
Philippines Mexico
Pakistan Panama
2 African countries
Nigeria
Ghana

31. POTENTIAL PARTNERS
International Organization for Migration
International Labor Organization