#discussion website design and mailing list organization and locally oriented publicity

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You know, community organizing doesn't have to be inherently political. It can be the quilting guild or the garden club. It's actually the same skill-set, and covers a lot of the same benefits. Building community is valuable, period.

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Resources

Case law on return of asylum seekers to Afghanistan, 2017-2018

This resource, provided by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), compiles information from selected European countries, specifically, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. It covers cases from 2017 and 2018 that relate to the return of Afghan nationals, assessed in light of their personal circumstances and the security situation in the country. The cases used are not exhaustive and where court decisions were not available in English, ECRE has supplied a translation.

Template motion to rescind in absentia removal order and reopen removal proceedings in the US for formerly separated families

Formerly separated families continue to face difficulties. These difficulties include navigating removal proceedings in immigration court without legal counsel. In absentia removal orders are a likely consequence of navigating removal proceedings pro se, especially given the trauma these families endured. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) authored this template Motion to Rescind In Absentia Removal Order and Reopen Removal Proceedings for Formerly Separated Families with the goal of assisting practitioners who represent or wish to represent these families.

Tracking anti-LGBT laws

Human Rights Watch has provided a comprehensive and detailed legal resource regarding anti-LGBT laws. The resource includes detailed reports in both a global and country specific context. Some of the information discussed includes laws that outlaw same-sex relations between consenting adults and also countries that criminalize forms of gender expression, such as “imitating the opposite sex.”

Guide to help refugees in the workforce

Deakin University researchers have launched a first-of-its-kind guide to help Australian employers hire refugees and asylum seekers. The guide's release coincides with the unveiling of Deakin's new Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE), based within the Faculty of Business and Law. The 10-page guide helps simplify the process for employers who may be unsure of the different visas and work rights held by those with a refugee or asylum seeker background.

UNHCR’s learning initiatives on the immigration detention of asylum-seekers and refugees

UNHCR is pleased to announce the official launch of the Fundamentals of Immigration Detention e-learning course and two thematic self-study modules on Immigration Detention Monitoring and on Alternatives to Detention, all developed jointly by the Division of International Protection (DIP) and the Global Learning Centre (GLC).The practice of detaining asylum-seekers and refugees has become routine rather than exceptional in a number of countries around the world, with serious lasting effects on individuals, in particular for those in situation of vulnerability or at risk, such as children. The e-learning course and the self-study modules have been developed under the framework of UNHCR’s Global Strategy – Beyond Detention. These learning initiatives aim at providing UNHCR staff and partners with practical tools, knowledge and best practices examples to continue advocating for the end of immigration detention of asylum-seekers, refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR. The self-study modules are available for download here. You may also access the e-learning course through this web-page or directly at Disaster Ready and on the Humanitarian Leadership Academy website.

Building bridges with indigenous communities, Canadian Centre for Refugees (CCR)

In 2018, CCR member organizations and allies were asked to share their initiatives, practices, and resources in connection with the work they are doing with Canadian newcomers and Indigenous communities. This new web page provides resources and practices relating to building bridges between newcomers and Indigenous peoples. The page is meant to be dynamic and is now ready to be consulted. If you have a resource or practice to share, or any comments or questions please send an email.

New mailing list dedicated to SOGIESC asylum

ILGA-Europe has launched a new mailing list dedicated to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristic (SOGIESC) asylum. Please note that participation in this list is reserved for NGOs, legal specialists, practitioners, academics and scholars. State/government or political institution representatives, students as well as journalists and other media representatives are currently not eligible. This list was developed in cooperation with TGEU, COC Nederland, Kaleidoscope Trust, LGBT Asylum Denmark, RFSL and UKLGIG.

Open access to a special issue of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

This special issue contributes to academic debates on the intersection of migration control and social policies by analyzing policies and policy making towards irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers in European countries. It shows a range of social policies, covering both legal regulation and practical implementation across countries and cities according to the perspective of internal migration control. It also deals with tensions, conflicts, and cooperation with regard to the provision of welfare services for irregular migrants. Finally, it addresses the policy designs and strategies of actors that provide, limit, or expand access to welfare services for irregular migrants. Below are the links to the individual articles:

Navigating the representative-politics–liberal-rights dilemma: Social policy designs for nonremoved migrants by Sieglinde Rosenberger

Municipal activism on irregular migrants: The framing of inclusive approaches at the local level by Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino 

Deserving shelter: Conditional access to accommodation for rejected asylum seekers in Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden by Ilker Ataç

Health care versus border care: Justification and hypocrisy in the multilevel negotiation of irregular migrants’ access to fundamental rights and services by Reinhard Schweitzer

Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted journeys of migrants with precarious legal status in Europe by Anna Wyss

Asylum Research Centre’s Country of Origin Information (COI) Update, vol. 190

This comprehensive bi-monthly report provides an update of UK Country Guidance case law, UK Home Office publications and developments in refugee producing countries (focusing on those which generate the most asylum seekers in the UK) between 5 and 18 March 2019. 

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What Is Cloud computing? And Why We Use Cloud Computing ?

Cloud Computing is an Internet based development and use computer technology. The term Cloud refers to a network or Internet. In other words, we can say that Cloud is something which is presently at remote location. Cloud can give services over network i.e on public networks on private networks i.e WAN, LAN or VPN.

What is Cloud Computing?

Could Computing refers to manipulating, configuring and accessing the applications online. It offers online data storage, infrastructure and application. Cloud Computing is a term used for hosted services delivered over the Internet. A Cloud service has three distinct characteristics which differentiate it from traditional hosting - It is sold on demand - typically by the minute or the hour. It is elastic in terms of usage - a user can have as much or as little of a service as he/ she wants at any given time. The service is fully managed by the provider - a user just needs PC and Internet connection. Hence, the Cloud Computing is making our business application mobile and collaborate. Why Cloud Computing ? Cloud Computing has many advantages : Applications and data can be accessed from anywhere at any time.  Data may not be held on a hard drive on one user's computer. It could bring hardware costs down. One would need the Internet connection. Organisations do not have to buy a set of software or software licenses for every employee and the organisations could pay a metered fee to a Cloud Computing company. Organisations do not have to rent a physical space to store server and databases. Servers and digital storage devices take up space. Cloud computing gives the option of storing data on someone else's hardware. Organisation would be able to save money on IT support because organisations will have to make sure about the desktop and continuous Internet connectivity instead of servers and other hardware. Deployment Models  of Cloud Computing services : Deployment models define the type of access to the Cloud. i.e how the Cloud is located? Cloud can have any of the four types of access - Public Cloud : A Public Cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet. It allows systems and services to be easily accessible to generate public. When a service provider uses public cloud resources to create a private cloud the result is called a "virtual private cloud".  Examples of Public Cloud are Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. Advantages: Since Public Cloud share some resources with a large number of consumers, it has low-cost. Public Cloud is also based on pay-per-use model and resources are accessible whenever consumer needs it. Disadvantaged :In Public Cloud model, data is hosted off-site and resources are shared publicly, therefore does not ensure higher level of security. It is comparatively less customisable than private cloud. Private Cloud: A Private Cloud is like a data center that supplies the hosted services to a limited number of people. The private cloud allows systems and services to be accessible with in an organisation. It operated only within a single organisation. However, it may be managed internally or by third party. Advantages: Private Cloud operations are not available to general public and resources are shared from distinct pool of resources. Therefore, it ensures high security and privacy. It have more control on its resources and hardware than public Cloud because it is accessed only within an organisation. Private Cloud resources are not as cost-effective as public clouds but they offer more efficiency than public cloud. Disadvantage : Private cloud is only accessible locally and ips very difficult to deploy globally. It can be scaled only within capacity of internal hosted resources. In order to keep up could deployment, organisation requires more skills and expertise. Hybrid Cloud A Hybrid Cloud is a mixture of public and private cloud. Non-critical activities are performed using public cloud while the critical activities are performed using private cloud. Advantage : Hybrid Cloud offers both the public and private scalability. It offers both secure and scalable public resources. Since Hybrid cloud, therefore it can have some savings. Disadvantage : Hybrid Cloud  becomes complex due to presence of private and public cloud. The Hybrid Cloud is dependent on internal IT infrastructure. Therefore it is necessary to make sure redundancy across data centers. Community Cloud : A Community Cloud allows system and services to be accessible by group of organisations. It shares the infrastructure between several organisations from a specific community. It may be managed internally or by the third party. Advantage :Community cloud  offers  same  advantage  as  that  of  private  cloud  at  low cost. Sharing  Between  Organizations Community  cloud  provides  an  infrastructure  to  share  cloud  resources  and  capabilities  among  several organizations. It  is  comparatively  more  secure  than  the  public  cloud. Disadvantage : Since  all  data is housed  at  one  location,  one  must be  careful  in  storing  data  in  community  cloud  because  it might  be  accessible  by  others.   It is  also  challenging  to  allocate  responsibilities  of  governance,  security  and  cost. Service Models of Cloud Computing: Infrastructure-as-a-service  (IaaS): It provides virtual servers with unique IP addresses and blocks of storage on demand. Customers benefit from an Application Programmable Interface (API) from which they can control their servers. As customers can pay for exactly the amount of service they use, like for electricity or water, this service is also called utility computing. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS): It is a set of software and development tools hosted on the provider's servers. Developers can create applications using the provider's APIs. Google Apps is one of the most popular PaaS providers. Developers should take notice that there are not any interoperability standards. Therefore , some providers may noy allow you to take your application and put it on another platform. Software-as-a-service (SaaS): It is the  broadest market. In this case, the provider allows the customer only to use its applications. The software interacts with the user through an interface. These applications can be anything from Web-based E-Mail to applications such as Twitter. Cloud Computing Applications: Cloud Computing has its applications in almost all the fields such as business, entertainment, data storage, social networking, management, entertainment, education, art and global positioning system, etc. Some of the widely famous cloud computing applications are discussed here. Business Applications Cloud computing: 1. MailChimp :It offers an e-mail publishing platform. It is widely employed by the businesses to design and send their e-mail campaigns. 2 Chatter: Chatter app helps the employee to share important information about organization in real time. One can get the instant feed regarding any issue. 3 Google Apps For Business: Google offers creating text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc., on Google Docs which allows the business users to share them in collaborating manner. 4 Quickbooks : It offers online accounting solutions for a business. It helps in monitoring cash flow, creating VAT returns and creating business reports. Data Storage and Backup: 1 Box.com:  Box.com offers drag and drop service for files. It just required to drop the files into Box and access from anywhere. 2 Mozy : Mozy offers online backup service for files during a data loss. 3 Joukuu :Joukuu is a web-based interface. It allows to display a single list of contents for files stored in Google Docs, Box.net and Dropbox. Management Applications: There are apps available for management task such as time tracking, organizing notes. Applications performing such tasks are discussed below: 1 Toggl : It helps in tracking time period assigned to a particular project. 2 Evernote : Evernote is an application that organizes the sticky notes and even can read the text from images which helps the user to find the notes easily. 3 Outright It is an accounting app. It helps to track income, expenses, profits and losses in real-time. Social Applications: There are several social networking services providing websites - 1 Facebook : Facebook offers social networking service. One can share photos, videos, files, status and much more. 2 Twitter : Twitter helps to interact directly with the public. One can follow any celebrity, organization and any person, who is on twitter and can have latest updates regarding the same. Entertainment Applications : 1 Audiobox.fm : It offers streaming service, i.e., music can be stored online and can be played from cloud using service's own media player. Art Applications: Moo : It offers art services such as designing and printing business cards, postcards and minicars. Cloud Computing Providers: Various Cloud Computing platforms are available today. 1 Salesforce.com :This is a Force.com development platform. This give a simple user interface and lets users log in, build an app and push it in the cloud. 2 Appistry :The Appistry's Cloud platform is efficient in delivering a runtime application platform. This platform is very useful to create scalable and service oriented applications. 3 AppScale :The AppScale is an open source platform for Google App Engine applications. 4 AT&T :The AT&T allows access to virtual servers and manages the virtualization infrastructure. This virtualization infrastructure includes network, server and storage. 5 Engine :Yard The Engine Yard is a Rails Application cloud computing platform. 6 Enomaly : Enomaly provides the Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. 7 FlexiScale :The FlexiScale offers a cloud computing platform that allows flexible, scalable and automated cloud infrastructure. 8 GCloud3 : The GCloud3 offers private cloud solution in its gPlatform. 9 Gizmox :The Gizmox Visual WebGUI platform is best suited for developing new web apps and modernize the legacy apps based on ASP.net, DHTML, etc. 10 GoGrid :The GoGrid platform allows the users to deploy web and database cloud services. 11 Google : The  App Engine lets the users build, run and keep up their applications on Google's infrastructure. 12 LongJump: The  LongJump  offers  a  Business  Application  Platform,  a  platform-as-aService  (PaaS). 13 Microsoft : The  Microsoft's  Windows  Azure  is  a  cloud  computing  platform  offering  an  environment  to  create  cloud  apps  and services. 14 OrangeScape : OrangeScape  off ers  a  Platform-as-a-Service  (Paas) for  non spreadsheet.programmers.  Building  an  app  is  as  easy  as 15 RackSpace : The  RackSpace  provide  servers-on-demand  via  a  cloud driven  platform  of  vitalized  servers. 16 Amazon  EC2 : The  Amazon  EC2  (Elastic  Compute  Cloud) lets  the  users  configure  and  control  computing  resources  while  running. 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