Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

Slavery and human trafficking

A U.S. Government report published in 2003 states that between 800 000 and 900 000 people worldwide are trafficked across borders each year, against their will. This does not even include those trafficked internally.

Astonishing.

Slavery is certainly not an archaic issue. Just ask the Sudanese. You can also read the Human Rights Watch report.

This not just a moral issue (although it most definitely is that); it is affront to that core concept of freedom that we hold dear. It is not just rhetoric; freedom is a true luxury in many parts of the world.

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My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.

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