Recent UK headlines have highlighted the Home Office contradicting its own internal study of migration data as to why refugees
PRESS RELEASE: TECHFUGEES LAUNCHES CROWD-FUNDING CAMPAIGN AT WEB SUMMIT – New Portugal chapter headed by Inēs Silva – 8 November,
Hi this is Mike, Just over a year ago, sickened by the idea that refugees were dying in the 21st Century,
What’s happened in the last few months has been astounding. From the day I created a simple Facebook group and Twitter feed in September to today, we’ve had two major conferences in London, a day-long global live stream, multiple hackathons in many cities and countries, name-checks at the highest levels (e.g. Syria Donors Conference) and a burgeoning number of Techfugees “Chapters” have mushroomed around the world (in fact, so fast we have barely had time to update the web site!). We’ve engaged with major NGO agencies and caught the attention of the global media.
It would be a shame if all that good will petered out into nothing, when we know in our heart of hearts that technology has an enormous amount to bring to the refugee situation either in terms of empowering them directly or empowering the agencies that try to help them, from the beginning of their journey to their integration into a new country.
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The Techfugees Paris Chapter is made up of a group of active and engaged members from the French tech and