Key Insights

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  Studio Into's Researcher in Residence program empowers vulnerable communities by hiring insiders as professional researchers.

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  The Voices Ukraine project quickly launched three weeks after the war began, showing agility in crisis response.

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  Using tools like Google Earth allowed mapping individual refugee journeys with quotes and photos to humanize data.

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  Dovetail enabled managing diverse qualitative data while preserving the original voice of respondents.

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  The program channels funding to refugees themselves, helping informal support networks economically.

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  Combining analog traditional crafts with digital tools can engage multiple community levels and expand discourse.

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  Data sovereignty is a central focus, especially protecting vulnerable, digitally marginalized communities.

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  Future topics considered include data sovereignty education and climate justice with accessible, interactive tools.

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  Commercial research agencies can contribute pro bono work to humanitarian crises using their core skills.

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  Accessibility and cultural relevance are critical when designing tools for global and marginalized communities.

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