Inequalities

It is essential to know how and why migrants use digital technologies before seeking to work with them and local tech developers to craft appropriate interventions that will improve their lives. The answers to such questions are not as obvious as many might at first think.

This working paper presents the results of an online survey of 297 respondents mostly currently living in South Africa (92.2%), and mainly from Ethiopia (59.8%); 92.7% of them identified themselves as migrants, with the remainder being family members of migrants (6.2%) or returned migrants (1.1%).