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Kenya’s Ericsson & Refugees United Projects Qualify For Global “Hack For Good” Championship

Milcah Lukhanyu by Milcah Lukhanyu
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Team ACID is composed of Anthony Nandaa, Mercy Orangi, Thomas Kioko, Samuel Mbugua, David Maitho, Derick Lung'aho.
Team ACID is composed of Anthony Nandaa, Mercy Orangi, Thomas Kioko, Samuel Mbugua, David Maitho, Derick Lung’aho.

Two projects developed by Kenyan-based software developers have been selected as finalists in the two-day developer session or “hackathon” organized by Refugees United and Ericsson over the weekend of June 15-16, 2013 in Nairobi.

The two winning projects – one by Team DKK (which enables volunteers to collect data offline and synchronizes it with an online server when connection is available) and the other, developed by Team ACID,  an online web registration system called “Ref Unite Plus” that has finer details that makes it easier to locate a refugee – will now have the opportunity to present their projects at Kakuma Refugee Camp on Thursday June 20 as part of the World Refugee Day celebrations.

Team DDK members are Dennis Kawawa; David Kirui; Titus Korir and Bonny Kashif.
Team DDK members are Dennis Kawawa; David Kirui; Titus Korir and Bonny Kashif.

Hackathon is an event where approximately 30 developers, programmers and designers join forces to solve a problem. The participants bring their laptops, enthusiasm, and ideas and work on identified and common challenges. At the 2-day event, dedicated developers had a weekend to solve the challenge – how to connect refugee families separated by war, conflict and disaster – while the projects were judged by a special Ericsson and Refugees United panel. The event took place at 88mph, a co-creation space known as “Startup Garage.”

“Family members lose track of each other mainly during war or famine and we must continue to invent technical solutions to put them back in touch,”said Ms Margaret Kositany, Director of Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility at Ericsson’s Kenya office.

Partnering since 2010, Ericsson and Refugees United seek to help separated families reconnect via mobile technology. Ericsson supports www.refunite.org – a mobile and web platform that empowers refugees to take the search for long lost family members into their own hands.

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“With more than 43 million forcibly displaced people of the world, there is an urgent need to reconnect families to their missing loved ones. Everyone has the right to know where their family is,” said Mr. Richard Ngamita, Data Analyst Manager of Refugees United.

Group photo of all the programmers, software developers, designers, judges, and staff from Ericsson and Refugees United at the third country 2day 'Global Hack For Good' event held at 88mph StartUp Garage in Nairobi, with the sole purpose of modifying a mobile platform that collects information in the remote areas of the work with the idea of connecting refugees to missing families.
Group photo of all the programmers, software developers, designers, judges, and staff from Ericsson and Refugees United at the third country 2day ‘Global Hack For Good’ event held at 88mph StartUp Garage in Nairobi, with the sole purpose of modifying a mobile platform that collects information in the remote areas of the work with the idea of connecting refugees to missing families.

The Nairobi Hackathon was the last in a series of three hacks taking place in Cairo, Silicon Valley, and Nairobi. Refugees United and Ericsson will announce the three global winners via Google Hangout on World Refugee Day, 20 June 2013, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees.

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