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Tan Rak
Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭Mobile application to support the recording of mosquito larval survey data. Together with the coordinates of the houses/buildings and the report of the entomological index immediately after the survey ends.
Hit Tine
Myanmar (Myăma) 🇲🇲Faster, Safer, Secure and Trusted Community for Myanmar Citizens
AlgorithmWatch's new campaign seeks to crowdsource reports of algorithmic discrimination. If you've experienced it or know someone who has, you can report it
Paradigm Initiative
LagosConnecting African youth with digital opportunities and ensuring digital rights for all.
Tenant Watch
MichiganTenant Watch is a mobile-first platform that empowers renters to report unsafe housing conditions and enables cities to monitor violations, enforce codes, and improve housing equity through data-driven oversight.
Agent Village
United States of America 🇺🇸4 AI agents were given a computer and tasked with raising as much money as they could for charities in 30 days, for two hours per day.
aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)
Duolingo
United States of America 🇺🇸The app aims to give everyone access to free language education.
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.
Refugermany
European Union (EU)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.
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.
Sona Circle
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Sona Circle is a recruitment agency that helps socially conscious employers hire skilled and dependable employees from the refugee workforce in the UK.
Paper Airplanes
United States of America 🇺🇸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.
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.
RefAid
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧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.
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.
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.
EUMigraTool (EMT)
European Union (EU)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.
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.
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)
NaTakallam
United States of America 🇺🇸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.
Shuvayatra
South AsiaTo help make the process of labour migration safer and more secure, Shuvayatra is a free mobile app that is placing the combined knowledge of experts, advocates, and the global Nepali diaspora in the hands of migrant workers. Source It is a joint project from The Asia Foundation, the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), and YoungInnovations.
FindHello
United States of America 🇺🇸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.
The Refugee Buddy Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧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).
Project Dastaan
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧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.
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.
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.
Children On The Edge
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧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.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
United States of America 🇺🇸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.
Aapti Institute
BangaloreWe want an equitable and just digital world where people are empowered to negotiate with technology
Fugees Family
United States of America 🇺🇸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
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.
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.
Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D)
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)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.
Refugee Info Bus
European Union (EU)Refugee Info Bus provides multilingual legal information, wifi and phone charge for displaced people.
Refugee Info
European Union (EU)Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.
GeoMatch
United States of America 🇺🇸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.
Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)
United States of America 🇺🇸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.
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