How Digitalization Helps Refugees
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Tech community efforts produce concrete tools and measurable results: a Facebook group grows to ~3,000; an information platform records 17,000 users in the first week between Greece and Turkey; a Lesbos delivery service makes 200 deliveries in 10 days and spins off into its own NGO; a German hackathon gathers 300 participants and helps scale volunteerplanner.org to 35,000 volunteers and 110,000 volunteer hours across ~60 locations. Other outputs: refugee info hubs, Wi‑Fi mesh points, medshare networks, legal-application tools, a housing matcher and an open database (metabrain) to avoid duplicate apps. Main obstacles are funding, internet access, legal liability and the need for co-creation with refugees.
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