If you are looking for good news about the refugee crisis, you can’t do much better than a story about ordinary people using their skills to help others. I particularly enjoyed working on this article for ZDNet.com and talking to the people involved in the Refugee Hackathon and at Refugees Online. If you’d like to help, please visit their sites to find out more.
As more refugees reach Germany, here’s how its tech community has responded
by Sara Zaske on ZDNet.com, 11/20/15
In the fallout from the Paris attacks, the longer-running controversy over refugees has taken on a new significance. But the fact remains that this summer, Germans surprised the world by opening their borders to a wave of asylum seekers.
Now, with more than 800,000 having already arrived, the country’s IT community is getting down to the practical issues of devising ways to help refugees through technology… (Read full story on ZDNet.com)
Sara Zaske 