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Mygrants
Italy (Italia)The Mygrants app is a for-profit digital company created in response to the arrival of Ukrainian migrants in Italy, so that they may be socially and economically integrated into Italy.
Integreat
European Union (EU)Integreat provides newcomers with local, municipal level information in several languages.
Pontem Pro
European Union (EU)Pontem Pro closes learning gaps and makes the German education system more accessible, understandable and feasible for migrants - for better education, integration and career opportunities.
Refugee Phrasebook
European Union (EU)The Refugee Phrasebook is a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immediate needs. It is an open collaborative project that assembles important phrases from various fields, building a collection of useful words and phrases for refugees who just arrived.
Children On The Edge
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Children on the Edge is a child rights organisation created to support the world’s most marginalised children, living in some of the toughest situations. We currently work with more than 20,000 children in Bangladesh, India, Uganda, Myanmar, and Lebanon.
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NaTakallam
United States of America (the)NaTakallam leverages the freelance digital economy to provide income to refugees, displaced persons & their host community members, by hiring them as online tutors, teachers, translators & cultural exchange partners, regardless of their location & status.
Taxonomising Resistance Technologies
BangaloreThis taxonomy is a living repository of digital systems that fall under the definition of what we call ‘Resistance Technology’ or ‘ResTech’, a digital layer in the migration sphere that is community-led, and built to fill gaps in information, welfare, and development through bottom-up means, thereby rebalancing existing power structures and enabling negotiation for people on the move.
Phone Credits for Refugees (PC4R)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)PC4R was set up in February 2016 by James Pearce as a way to provide phone credits to people in refugee camps.
GeoMatch
United States of America (the)GeoMatch works in many settings, from refugee resettlement to immigration agencies and nonprofits that help aspiring immigrants. They tailor the software to the client’s needs.
Humanity Crew
European Union (EU)Humanity Crew is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that communities affected by crises receive the critical mental health and psychosocial support they need.
Voices of Venezuela
Latin AmericaVoices of Venezuela (VOV) is committed to empowering Venezuelan migrants through innovative, AI-powered solutions and community-driven initiatives.
Duolingo
United States of America (the)The app aims to give everyone access to free language education.
ALMAMAR App
Germany (Deutschland)ALMAMAR is a newly developed intervention for refugees that supports them in coping with psychological problems (e.g. sadness or anxiety). ALMAMAR is based on a scientifically reviewed program that has already been used successfully in various countries. The program is either internet-based - on a smartphone or computer - with written contact or face-to-face contact. Participation is free of charge.
Contratados.org
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoContratados.org allows workers to share their experiences and write reviews about their recruiters and employers in order to make the recruitment process transparent and generate a mechanism for accountability for compliance or non-compliance with the obligations of employers and/or recruiters. This information-sharing initiative fills a critical gap in the information available to migrant workers, advocates, and governments about the practices and actors involved in international labor recruitment. Contratados.org seeks to increase the power of the migrant worker within the recruitment process and , to end abuses in recruitment and employment within temporary work programs.
Aapti Institute
BangaloreWe want an equitable and just digital world where people are empowered to negotiate with technology
The Refugee Buddy Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A community group led by migrants and refugees formed in 2017, to provides support in the form of buddies, advocacy, financial and emotional support for refugees seeking safety in Scotland (specifically Hastings, Rother, and Wealden).
FindHello
United States of America (the)FindHello is an app built in partnership with the UNHCR by USAHello, a non-profit organization that uses technology to connect immigrant communities with the information and resources they need to thrive. It seeks to target refugees who migrate to the USA.
Tarjimly
United States of America (the)A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.
Refugee Info
European Union (EU)Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.
Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)
United States of America (the)The organisation focuses on making skilled migration systems for refugees more accessible, and to create a world where displaced people can safely migrate for work, using their skills to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose. It also collaborates with governments to achieve its purpose.
Awana Digital
United States of America (the)Digital Democracy’s mission is to work in solidarity with frontline and indigenous communities to use technology to defend their environmental and human rights. We partner with environmental defenders to co-design and co-develop tools they can use to defend critical ecosystems and Indigenous cultures. Digital Democracy helps our partners achieve transformative change and works toward a world where all people can participate in decisions that govern their lives.
Project Dastaan
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Project Dastaan is a peace-building initiative which examines the human impact of global migration through the lens of the largest forced migration in recorded history, the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
Jangala
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Jangala is a technology charity dedicated to providing essential internet access globally, with the goal of connecting 4 million people to the internet by 2030. Founded in 2015 as a volunteer initiative providing Wi-Fi to 5,000 people in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, Jangala offers a unique approach through its novel connectivity solutions, and takes great pride in its strong partnerships with international aid actors, grassroots organisations and public bodies.
Refugees Welcome International
European Union (EU)The Refugees Welcome International network is united by its shared mission to provide private accommodations for refugees all over the world, with the aims of fostering exchange between refugees and locals, combatting discrimination and prejudice, and supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the establishment of local social networks.
MeshPoint One
European Union (EU)MeshPoint One believes that access to Internet is one of basic human rights. Their mission is to enable Internet access and improve the quality of life for people in disaster struck areas. Also by empowering people in rural communities to take action to build their own village telecoms to address disadvantage, become more sustainable and increase local control. Currently, they are focused on Syrian refugees in Croatia.
Berlin Mondiale
BerlinTo make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.
Sona Circle
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Sona Circle is a recruitment agency that helps socially conscious employers hire skilled and dependable employees from the refugee workforce in the UK.
aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)
Paper Airplanes
United States of America (the)Paper Airplanes is a non-profit that seeks to prepare university students in conflict zones to be able to finish their university degrees through English language programs, among other initiatives.
Humans In The Loop
European Union (EU)Our goal is to provide digital work and training opportunities in some of the areas of the world which are hit hardest by armed conflict and forced displacement. We recognize the complexity of working in such fragile contexts and in order to navigate the challenges around employing and paying people in these locations, we partner with a network of established local organizations with a proven track record.
Re:Match
European Union (EU)Developing and applying a preference-based algorithm that brings together welcoming cities and people seeking protection, Re:Match aims to bring just, sustainable and human-rights centered innovation to the field of migration governance.
Watch The Med
European Union (EU)Watch The Med is an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at the maritime borders of the EU. The WatchTheMed project was initiated as part of the 2012 Boats4People campaign in the Central Mediterranean. Today the project further involves a wide network of organisations, activists and researchers. Through the transnational cooperation with migrants’ rights organisations, activists, researchers, migrants, seafarers active in, around and beyond the Mediterranean and the use of new mapping technologies, WatchTheMed aims to document the deaths and violations that are the structural product of the militarized Southern European border regime. The online map allows to spatialise incidents across the complex legal and political geography of the Mediterranean Sea. Through the accounts of survivors and witnesses, but also the analysis of ocean currents, winds, mobile phone data and satellite imagery, it is possible to determine in which Search and Rescue zone, jurisdictions and operational areas an incident occurred – as well as showing other boats who were in the vicinity of those in distress. Spatialising such information is essential to determine responsibility for violations at sea. Apart from reconstructing past events, the participatory nature of the platform allows many different actors to to indicate ongoing situations of distress. The documentation generated by WatchTheMed seeks to support the work of organisations that defend migrants’ rights, inform migrants of their rights and security at sea, pressure authorities into respecting their obligations at sea, support the ongoing campaigns by the relatives of the dead and disappeared at sea, and support legal proceedings against those who violated the rights of migrants.
Datavoros
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)Datávoros is a research project on data collection through mobile applications developed by governments and companies. Their analysis focuses on understanding what data is collected and how, what permissions are requested, and what security and privacy measures are in place. It is built to create accountability and transparency for users.
RefAid
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The app seeks to ensure that migrants in Europe can access trusted services and accurate information in the palm of their hand - wherever they are.
Fugees Family
United States of America (the)Fugees Family is a national nonprofit organization that partners with public school districts and communities to better serve refugee and immigrant students. Fugees is reimagining the ways educators connect with newcomer students
Needslist
United States of America (the)NeedsList matches community needs with offers of support, making humanitarian assistance and disaster response cheaper, faster, and more targeted.
pardesi.org.np
South AsiaAn information portal for Nepalese migrants to bridge the gap in their access to information.
Āhau
OceaniaĀhau is a Whānau Data Platform that helps whānau-based communities (whānau, hapū, Iwi) capture, preserve, and share important information and histories into secure, whānau managed databases and servers. Keep track of whānau whakapapa information, preserve and share cultural records and narratives, own and control whānau data and servers, and build a stronger sense of whānau, community and identity. (whānau is an extended family or community of related families who live together in the same area. Origin: New Zealand)
Citizen Dialog Kit
Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.
Data Umbrella is a global community for underrepresented persons in data science.
Data Umbrella's practical introduction to the field of program evaluation
Doroob
West Bank (al-Ḍiffah al-Gharbīyah)Updated maps by local staff from your community to match map frequent changes equiped by location services.
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
United States of America (the)The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides free legal support and legal resources, including training, direct legal representation, and reporting guides, to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists both nationally and locally in the U.S.
PEN America
New York, NYPEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Join Us
The DPI Approach: A Playbook
India (Bhārat)This DPI playbook is designed as a practical and public resource that low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular can utilize in building an inclusive and rights-based DPI.
Journalist Assistance Network
United States of America (the)Journalist Assistance Network to address growing need for legal, safety, immigration resources
We Choose Us
United States of America (the)A project of the Pro-Democracy Campaign, we aim to highlight commentary, research, and examples of strong organizing, better voter engagement practices, and strategies to make democracy work for all in America.
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