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.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

An app that aims to provide asylum seekers in Germany information on asylum procedures, transportation, employment, and so on. It is designed as a welcome guide that can be easily updated as compared to a physical pamphlet.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)

• General purpose open source tools
• Speech recognition

The app aims to give everyone access to free language education.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity

Voices of Venezuela (VOV) is committed to empowering Venezuelan migrants through innovative, AI-powered solutions and community-driven initiatives.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Bots

NeedsList matches community needs with offers of support, making humanitarian assistance and disaster response cheaper, faster, and more targeted.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

The EMT is created with the purpose of designing models to predict migration in the EU and to develop a trustworthy tool that can exclusively be used by municipalities and civil society organisations. The tool is also beneficial in providing policy recommendations for receiving migration flows in the EU in accordance with human rights and for optimising integration of refugees in host countries.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Job-matching

Sona Circle is a recruitment agency that helps socially conscious employers hire skilled and dependable employees from the refugee workforce in the UK.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

The CultureLabs platform aims to systematise and spread knowledge about participatory projects in the field of cultural heritage and beyond. Through its functionalities and the variety of content it provides, it aspires to become a single point of reference for those who wish to organize participatory projects by taking advantage of digital technologies through a human rights lens. Among others, it addresses refugees in Europe through its various initiatives.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs
• Democratic Innovations

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Connectivity
• Hardware

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Find and amplify the best UGC with TikTok One's Content Suite

• commercial

• Advertising
• Creators and Influencers

Contratados.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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Consumer watchdogging

Integreat provides newcomers with local, municipal level information in several languages.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Resettlement

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

To make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. They work together to create open map data which revolutionises disaster management by enabling disaster responders to reach those in need, and contributes to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Civic data APIs

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Techfugees is an initiative that supports the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world. It also enables the creation and application of tech-enabled solutions to manage migration.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Mutual aid

PC4R was set up in February 2016 by James Pearce as a way to provide phone credits to people in refugee camps.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Hababy is a web app for prenatal, and postnatal care for refugee women.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Access social benefits
• Resource matching and sharing

Gamifying Civic Engagement to Rebuild Community Wealth

• Games and gamification
• Economic development

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Resettlement

An information portal for Nepalese migrants to bridge the gap in their access to information.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Legal tech
• Job-matching

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).

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Refugee Info Bus provides multilingual legal information, wifi and phone charge for displaced people.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resettlement

We want an equitable and just digital world where people are empowered to negotiate with technology

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Access social benefits

• Govtech
• Conferences

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Glossaries

Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resettlement

This 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.

• immigration

• Civic tech catalogs
• Taxonomies

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.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

ROW3D is a consortium of different partners including technologists, aid workers, entrepreneurs and medics focusing on humanitarian innovation - primarily equipping refugees with skills to use digital fabrication techniques to manufacture essential supplies.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Inactive Projects Archive