Be part of a Google Hangout on World Refugee Day 20 June 2013 9am EST // Hosted by Ericsson and Refugees United On World Refugee Day, 20 June 2013, Ericsson and Refugees United will host a Google Hangout to announce the winners of the Global Hack for Good, a one-of-a-kind event, which aims to connect refugees to missing family. Watch! Event to be live-streamed here: goo.gl/bBhiO  on 20 June 2013, 9am EST Submit questions! If you want the chance to ask questions, just head over to Google+, and post it, and be sure to include the #HackForGood hashtag Three continents, one challenge: making…

This project is one in a series of projects developed at the Global #HackForGood in Nairobi, Kenya. Powered by Ericsson and Refugees United.  Project team: Anthony Nandaa @profnandaa Mercy Orangi @mercy_orangi Thomas Kioko @code_wizard Samuel Mbugua @samspftk David Maitho @maithothige Derick Lung’aho @dericklungaho Description: The team’s project is aimed at making it easier to register refugees through registration platforms such as J2ME and SMS/USSD. Further, the team has worked on an online web registration system that has additional/finer details that will make it easier for a refugee to be located successfully especially when basic parameters e.g. the first and last…

This project is one in a series of projects generated at the #HackForGood in Nairobi, Kenya. Powered by Refugees United and Ericsson.  By: Ken Ross Twitter handle: @kzhen Project Url: https://github.com/kzhen/RefUnited-IVR-Platform Description: The Public Broadcast system for the Refugees United platform provides a way for people to connect to an IVR system and record a public broadcast. This broadcast is then available for all registered users of Refugees United to listen to and reply to. After listening to a broadcast the listener can do the following: Reply privately via voice – this will send a voice message directly to the person who posted…

Blog post by Natalia Alvarado, East Africa Camp Coordinator Yesterday was such a beautiful and inspiring day as we celebrated World Refugee Day with the Congolese community living in Kayole, Nairobi, Kenya under the theme “One family torn apart by war is too many.” Refugees United presented the event in collaboration with several other organizations including Jesuit Refugee Service, Heshima, Don Bosco, TUSA, Catholic Secretariat, and Faraja Foundation. We even had a few representatives from the Kenyan government present, enjoying the celebrations along side the rest of us.  The event kicked off with a mass at the Divine World Parish church…

Refugees United and Ericsson hosted a hackathon in San Francisco, USA, from June 8th and 9th 2013 Bringing together some of the best technological innovators of the Bay Area    The semi-finalists from the United States are runners-up in the Global Hack for Good Ericsson and Refugees United will announce the finalists on World Refugee Day on June 20th via a special Google Hangout event San Francisco, USA – With the global number of forcibly displaced people at 43 million and growing, there is an urgent need to reconnect refugee families who have been separated due to conflict, natural disaster,…