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December 2021
🌍 Financial Times:Tech to rebuild the world’s reefs… And other startups and gadgets that could transform the world
🇫🇷 Maddyness:« Le talent des réfugiés ne doit pas être sous-estimé »
November 2021
🇪🇸 El Pais: Joséphine Goube: “Los discursos en redes contra los refugiados se combaten hablando menos y haciendo más”
🌍 The Scotsman: Scottish product design firms help develop phone charger for developing world
🇮🇹 Huffington Post: #Tech4Women. Yo soy Anita, soy una mujer, soy una migrante
October 2021
🌍 Global News Wire: Chili Piper’s $1M Citizens of our Planet Foundation Launches with Landmark Support for Global Refugees
🇮🇹 Milano Today: L’azienda milanese che assume donne rifugiate (con contratti a tempo indeterminato)
September 2021
🌍 PRovoke Media: EMEA News In Brief (September 6, 2021)
🌍 Business Wire: Western Union Foundation Funds Education for Underserved Youth
August 2021
🌍 IDG Connect: Techfugees – empowering refugees through innovation
July 2021
🌍 Evening Standard: Mind the gap: bridging London’s tech divide
May 2021
🌍 TechCrunch: BuffaloGrid and Techfugees launch education, solar charging initiative for refugees, aim to raise $3M
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November 2020
🌍 TechCrunch: Techfugees nonprofit brings on new CEO to engage tech industry with refugee issues
🇫🇷 Kombini: On a rassemblé 23 talents qui illuminent Paris en une seule map !
October 2020
🇫🇷 InfoMigrant – our #TF4Women Project Manager got interviewed by InfoMigrant to tell them more about the #TF4women fellowship – in arabic in the text 🙂
June 2020
🌍 International Telecommunications Union – Techfugees Data Hub team of volunteers was interviewed for an article on how tech is helping to map refugees in times of crisis
February 2020
🇫🇷 Care News – our CEO was at the ChangeNow summit to deliver a keynote presentation introducing the topic of displacement and climate change (in french)
🌍 Engineering & technology: Refugees and technology: on a journey of self-discovery
🌍 The New Economy – How technology can help the global refugee crisis
January 2020
🌍 Signis – Techfugees: empowering displaced people with technology
🌍 Our partners, FAIRE, have written a blog post about us and on how technology is at the core of our work on inclusion of refugees.
🇫🇷 Courrier de l’atlas – Techfugees au service des réfugiés (in french and on paper)
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December 2019
🌍 The Pies News – IGNITE 2019 sheds a light on the importance of digital learning opportunities for refugees
🇫🇷 The French Tech community in Angers welcomed Rana, one of the #TF4Women fellows, and talked about this experience on their blog (in French)
November 2019
🇫🇷 Maddyness announces the #TF4Women fellows’ final run with the Job Dating event on December 3rd (French).
🌍 For French readers, Le Point published a recap article about the panel discussion about Africa tech in which our CEO was involved in Marseille.
October 2019
🌍 Our CEO is one of the public supporters of the next Maddy Keynote so she was asked to share her vision of the 2020′ topic of the conference: the Mutations. French readers: have a look!
🇩🇰 Have a look at Cédric’s blog post sharing his experience as part of Techfugees’ first hackathon in Copenhagen with the Pasarán project for displaced people!
🇮🇪 Irish Tech News announces Techfugees Ireland’ meetup!
September 2019
🌍 Techfugees: The Global Tech Community Responds to the Refugee Crisis
🇦🇺 Hacky Place in the Collective Hub Magazine
July 2019
💌 Techfugees’ April > June newsletter
🌍 Silicon Luxembourg – When Technologies facilitate the integration of refugees
🌍 Maddyness (French)
June 2019
🌍 Forbes – Refugee Week – Businesses Building A Shared Future
🇳🇿 Techfugees NZ‘ first hack was on Re:news
🇦🇺 The Importance of Techfugees is a Medium post written by John Westgarth who attended Techfugees Australia WRD meetup
May 2019
🇫🇷 Techfugees France was on GuitiNews (French)
🇪🇸 Techfugees Barcelona‘s first hackathon was on Peaceworx
🇰🇪 A Youth for Technology Foundation team participated in Techfugees Nairobi hackathon and told it in a blog post
🇳🇿 Techfugees NZ‘ representative, Rochelle, gave an interview on Access Radio
🌍 Podcast “Le Marketing Cause” avec Ambre Cerny, Directrice de la communication de Techfugees (French)
April 2019
💌 Techfugees’ January > March newsletter
🇰🇪 Techfugees’ first African hackathon in Kenya was on CGTN Africa
🇦🇺 Techfugees Australia‘s last hackathon was on ABC National Radio
🌍 Stratégies – Les start-up, fers de lance de la tech for good (French)
🌍 Les Echos – Tech for good : “Jongler entre rentabilité et impact” (French)
🌍 What design can do – We need to battle with empathy. We need to humanize
March 2019
🇫🇷 Techfugees France call to apply to the #TF4Women fellowship programme 2019 was on Maddyness
🌍French Web – Mythes et réalités autour des migrants (French podcast with Joséphine Goube)
🌍Madame Figaro – Remarquable Women in Technology, UNESCO’ exhibition feat Joséphine Goube (French)
February 2019
🌍Medium, Marylene Ricci – What would it be like to spend one day in 2084? #MaddyKeynote2019
🌍Hello Neighbor – 43 Refugee and Immigrant Advocates To Know (with Mike Butcher inside!)
🌍 Video podcast of “Le Salon des Entrepreneurs” – Joséphine Goube’s interview (French)
January 2019
🇳🇿 Techfugees New Zealand’s kick off on Scoop & Computer world
🌍The Big Issue – Techfugees’ Founder & Chairman (Mike Butcher) listed as one of The Big Issue’s Changemakers Top 100
🌍Maddyness – Interview of Joséphine Goube – Techfugees’ CEO (French)
December 2018
🌍Tropics Magazine – Nomination of Techfugees’ CEO (Joséphine Goube) as the Prominent Female European Entrepreneur of the Year 2018
November 2018
🇵🇹 Websummit
- Diario de Noticias (Portuguese)
- RFI (French)
- BBC – 10’45
October 2018
🗞They talk about the Techfugees Global Summit 2018
September 2018
🌍 Partnership with Google for entrepreneurs announcement (on l’ADN & Maddyness – French)
🌍Welcome to the Jungle (French)
August 2018
🌍L’Express (French)
🌍Maddyness (French)
July 2018
🌍One the Dot, podcast
April 2018
🌍 Lush : Katie meets Alice & Data for good with Mike Butcher and Joséphine Goube
🌍Simone (French)
March 2018
🌍Mediatico, “Le JT de l’ESS” (French) – From 3′
🎤 SXSW Tech
- Medium SXSW
- Facebook live SXSW
- Statesman
- Handelsblatt (German)
- Munich Startup (German)
- The Fullest, podcast
- Houdoukyoku (Japanese)
- Maddyness (French)
- SilexID (French)
- Danny Devriendt’s blog
Previous years
UK Media
- BBC Click: How Technology is Helping Refugees
- Business Weekly: Cambridge tech community wades into world refugee crisis
- Cambridge News: Cambridge tech cluster comes together to help refugees
- Informilo: London’s Techfugees Helps Support Syrian RefugeesBusiness Insider: Here are all the UK tech figures named in the Queen’s birthday honours list
- Sky News: Techies Unite To Tackle Challenge Of Refugees Video: https://youtu.be/kVYXvz2IzZA
- Evening Standard: Tech City’s response to the refugee crisis shows real innovation
- The Telegraph: Techfugees ready or not to take on migrant crisis
- City AM: EU migrant crisis: How technology could help solve the refugee crisisReuters: Britain’s tech community links up with charities to help migrants with mobiles
- The Guardian: The global tech community tackles the refugee crisis
- Financial Times: A German entrepreneurial spirit to heal refugees’ plight
- Financial Times: Notebook: Technology comes to the rescue in migrant crisis
- The Verge: Hacking the refugee crisis
- The Next Web: Techfugees aims to crowdsource solutions to Europe’s migrant crisis
- New Scientist: How to make apps that help Europe-bound Syrian refugees
- Global Risk Insight: Technology’s unexpected involvement in the refugee crisis
- Alphr: Meet the company co-ordinating tech’s response to refugees
- Startups.co.uk: Tech entrepreneurs set to crowdsource solutions for refugee crisis
- The Memo: Behind the scenes at Europe’s biggest innovation event
US MEDIA
- NewsDeeply: Experts to Watch: Innovating Refugee Response
- OpenSource: Hackathons bring open source innovation to humanitarian aid
- Forbes: Technology is a better fix for the Syrian crisis than donations and aid
- Voice of America: Britain’s Tech Community Helping Migrants With MobilesUSA Today: Tech world hits refugee crisis wallVC Post: British tech community delivers innovative solutions to refugees
- Bloomberg: Solving the refugee crisis one algorithm at a time
- CNN: Tech tackles the refugee crisis
- Coverage of #TechfugeesNY
- La Repubblica TorinoStartMiUp
- Citizen Carl
- Data Manager
- PoliTO
- Quotidiano Piemontese
- Torino Eventi
- Digi:TO
- Torino Smart City
- AltriMondi
- Italia PubblicitaLa Stampa
- La Tribuna
- Agenda Digital
ITALIAN MEDIA
- La Repubblica TorinoStartMiUp
- Citizen Carl
- Data Manager
- PoliTO
- Quotidiano Piemontese
- Torino Eventi
- Digi:TO
- Torino Smart City
- AltriMondi
- Italia PubblicitaLa Stampa
- La Tribuna
- Agenda Digitale
AUSTRALIAN MEDIA
- Smart Company: How startups and entrepreneurs are working to make life easier for refugees around the world
- Business Insider: London has hosted a ‘Techfugees’ hackathon to address the growing refugee crisisSBS Australia: Hacking to help refugees in Sydney
- StartupSmart: Tech hackathon to help refugees settle in Australia is coming to Melbourne
FRENCH MEDIA
OTHERS
- AEIDL: Techfugees: Techies connecting migrants
- Wamda: Kwik emergency response sensor wins refugee hackathon
- Newsweek Middle East: Cracking the crisis
- Luxemburger Wort: My life is in my smartphone
- DR.DK: Tech folk will help Europe’s refugees
- Medie Varlden: Schibsted in new refugee projects
- Kampanje: Schibsted help in refugee project
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