Paul Canty, Techfugees

1. TECHFUGEES - COORDINATOR AND CURATOR OF THE TECH COMMUNITY’S
RESPONSE TO THE REFUGEE CRISIS

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TECHFUGEES MISSION
STARTED AS A MOVEMENT
• Moved by the plight of refugees in Europe, a number of technology industry people led by Mike Butcher, the Editor-at-
large of TechCrunch.com, have formed a voluntary team to create the series of non-profit Techfugees conference,
hackathons and work with a global network of collaborators.
• In its first 48 hours the Techfugees Facebook Group and Twitter account exploded. There are now over 11,000
members of Techfugees, demonstrating a huge desire amongst the tech community to get involved with this issue.
NOW A STRUCTURED NETWORK
• Local teams in 25+ countries and cities around the World including Melbourne, Freetown, San Francisco and Turkey.
• More than 100+ projects have come out of hackathons and online public consultations.
• Running events almost every two weeks - and in partnership with local players: SINGA (France), EmpowerHack (UK),
ReDi School & Silicon Alley (Germany)
• Signed a strategic partnership with Schibsted to fund its network and local events around the world

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BASEFUGEES CONTENT REQUIREMENTSTECHFUGEES
Techfugees is a social enterprise coordinating the international tech community’s response to the refugee needs.
Techfugees HQ is in London, and its core team is made of one employee and 14 volunteers.
Techfugees is represented by volunteers who offer their time to put up events, gather the community and help
incubate locally the best projects.
Techfugees received coverage from major international and national outlets - for its events and the projects that
came out of them.
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4. Tech-focused: we are interested in technology because it scales.
Collaboration and the non-duplication of solutions: where we can we promote the scaling of solutions that
already exist. Techfugees is not involved in creating or marketing apps directly to refugees, but Techfugees
will promote and push tech solutions as a way of keeping technology in the global conversation about
refugee issues.
Coordinate and curate – we apply some due diligence process before we connect projects with NGO
challenges, partners, sponsors, and experts.
Independent and non-political: it does not support any political agenda or finance any political activism.
TECHFUGEES VALUES
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TECHFUGEES T5
INFRASTRUCTURE
IoT, Wifi, Hotspot,
Devices,TV white space
technology
HEALTH
Hardware, apps, web
sites, biotech devices
IDENTITY
Online ID, e-citizenship,
recognition technology,
blockchain
INCLUSION
Access to banking,local
Social Media,
Entrepreneurship,
Techfugees supports the development of
technology that can have a positive impact on the
life of refugees in the 5 following areas:
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EDUCATION
Online Courses &
teachers Language apps
and crowd sourced
knowledge

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BASEFUGEES HOW IT WORKSEXAMPLES OF PROJECTS
INFRASTRUCTURE EDUCATION HEALTHIDENTITY INCLUSION
Meshpoint
Jangala Project
GeeCycle
ReDi School
Kiron
University
HelloHub
E-Citizenship
Blockchain
Tech
Bureau Crazy
MedShr
Linqapp
Talk to Hadi
Moni
Comme A La
Maison
Action Emploi
Refugie

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BASEFUGEES CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
PROJECTS
- Existing technology that can be applied in a refugee
situation
- Related to one or more of the T5
- Projects looking for partners, promotion and funding
NGOs
- Organisations that have challenges we can solve
- Organisations who can deploy new tech in the field
- Organisations and people who can advise us, on
developing the right tech solutions
WE ARE LOOKING FOR
DONORS
- Individuals to donate to support our work
- Larger donations directly to us, or via a registered
charity that supports us
- corporate sponsors to sponsor one T5 vertical
PARTNERS
- Organisations working in the field or T5 that can
contribute with their expertise
- Organisation to support our networks of chapters
and wanting to run events & competitions
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THANK YOU
www.techfugees.com
GET IN
TOUCH
© TECHFUGEES 2016 proudly sponsored by Schibsted and IHorizon
www.basefugees.com
paul@paulcanty.co.uk
twitter: @paulcanty