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.

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6hackforgood, Refugee United,

This project is one in a series of projects generated at the Global #HackForGood in Nairobi, Kenya. Powered by Refugees United and Ericsson. 

By:

• Brian Ondari
• Denis Minja
• Musa Oganda
• Claire Musiku
• Nelly Nkonge

Description:

This is an Android app that increases the amount of data being stored in the refunite database so as to increase the chances of finding a match.

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6Refugee United, hackforgood,

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 names are similar.

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6hackforgood, Refugee United,

This project is one in a series of projects generated at the Global #HackForGood in Nairobi, Kenya. Powered by Refugees United and Ericsson. 

By:

• Dennis Kawawa @_nodem
• David Kirui @davekirui
• Titus Korir @TitusKorir
• Bonny Kashif

Description:

The app enables volunteers to collect data offline and synchronize it with an online server when they have a good Internet connection.

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6hackforgood, Refugee United,

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.

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6hackforgood, Refugee United,

This project is one in a series of projects generated at the Global #HackForGood in Nairobi, Kenya. Powered by Ericsson and Refugees United. 

Team Members and Twitter Handles

• David Bwire - @davidbwire
• Joseph Murgor - @josemurgo
• Johnstone Kibabu - @kibabumark

About the Project

isearch tries to come up with a better way for families to locate each other by improving the accuracy, efficiency and ease of search.

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6hackforgood, Refugee United,

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.”

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6Refugee United, world refuge day,

• Refugees United and Ericsson hosted a hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 15^th & 16^th gathering innovative developers from Nairobi
• Ericsson and Refugees United announced the two semi-finalists who will represent Kenya in the Global Hack for Good Championship
• Winners will be announced on World Refugee Day on June 20^th  

Nairobi, Kenya – ‘Hackathons’ are becoming increasingly popular in Nairobi, bringing together programmers, designers and developers who wish to spend the weekend networking, innovating and competing.

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6Refugee United, Global Hack for Good,

• Refugees United and Ericsson hosted a hackathon in San Francisco, USA, from June 8^th and 9^th 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 20^th via a special Google Hangout event

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6family tracing, Refugee United,

This idea is one in a series of ideas generated at the Global Hack for Good in Silicon Valley powered by Ericsson and Refugees United.

The purpose of this project is to allow users to send voice-messages between each other - just like they can send text-messages today.

A voice call can be initiated by clicking a link, the system then calls the acting user, records a message and afterwards sends the recorded message to the receiving user.

Project URL:
https://github.com/neist/hackforgood

This idea is one in a series of ideas generated at the Global Hack for Good in Silicon Valley powered by Ericsson and Refugees United.

Connector - Missing People Recommendation Engine

The purpose of this project is to actively search for user profiles in the system that might match missing people profiles. Connector will automatically monitor the entries to the system and message users if a potential match is found.

Project Members:
Tony Tam

Project URL:
https://github.com/ttasterisco/hackforgood

This idea is one in a series of ideas generated at the Global Hack for Good in Silicon Valley powered by Ericsson and Refugees United.

One current problem with the USSD system is that there is a 3 minute session timeout, making it difficult for users to type a message to other potential connections with enough fidelity before getting kicked out of the system.

Our solution to the problem is to provide a “Messaging Wizard,” which only requires users to select from up to 4 options, or type single words. The bulk of the message is templated, allowing for greater message fidelity without running into the session timeout issue.

An example (where the user is only responsible for typing the underlined words): “I am looking for my sister, Duni.”

Project Members:
Anari Sengbe
Ivy Wang
Zac Halbert

Project URL:
http://github.com/Gamerholic/rUnited