Today's world counts more than 20 million refugees, including over 1 million refugees resettled in Europe as a result of the ongoing Syrian civil war. When fleeing conflicts, refugees risk their lives with the hope of building a better future for themselves. However, upon resettling in a new country, refugees struggle to easily find the opportunities available to them and to filter the ones that are the most relevant to their profile and current context. In this talk, we explain how AI can be leveraged to connect refugees in real-time and in a customized way to the opportunities that will accelerate the most their integration, bringing them a step forward towards the better future they strive to build for themselves.

2. 400+ Refugees
United Kingdom Germany Netherlands
Bachelor’s+ DegreeAge 18-35
100+ Opportunity Providers

3. The Challenges of
Integrating Refugees
into the Labour
Force

4. Lack of a single platform where
refugees can access jobs, trainings,
mentors etc. & where opportunity-
providers can recruit refugee talent

5. Refugees’ unawareness of
opportunities leads to skills
mismatch and high unemployment

6. The large number and diversity of
refugees create a problem that
governments and agencies cannot
manually tackle

7. Introducing Rafiqi
An online platform that leverages AI to provide
a real time and customized access of
refugees to life opportunities

8. Why AI?

9. Adel, 27
- Single
- Intermediate English
- Degree in law and
experience with NGOs
Zina, 33
- Divorced, 3 children
- Basic English
- Cook, No degrees
Mourad, 37
- Married, 2 children
- Advanced English
- Degree in computer science
- worked as a web developer
AI enables an automated, scalable and
customized matching between 2 very
diverse pools of refugees & opportunities

10. FRONTEND/UI BACKEND
1.User inputs basic data &
hits Explore!
Opportunities
database
(300+ opportunities
to date)
Matching
algorithm
Explore
MVP Overview
Latest Degree obtained
Work background
2. Matching algorithm is
triggered
3. Most adequate set of
opportunities selected
4. Opportunities
info retrieved
5. Opportunities list with
links sent back to user
6. List
displayed in
real time

11. Matching Algorithm*: Expert
systems based
Are there jobs that match
this person’s background in
his/her location?
Check job readiness Are there any online jobs
that match this person’s
background?
Check English level and
digital easiness
Match to
job
Look into
trainings
Yes No
YesNo
Not job
readyJob ready
* This is an overview of only a small part of the matching algo logic

12. Web Infra overview
Front End
Node (React)
Backend Node
(Node) Mongo DB
(JSON)
AWS Deployment
Docker
Container
Docker
Container
Docker
Container
Docker
Container
Docker
Container
Docker
Container
Docker
Container
Kubernetes for container orchestration

13. Looking Forward
Q1
2019
Pilot in UK
Q2 2019
Pilot in UK
Develop WebApp beyond
MVP
Q3 2019
Pilot in Germany &
Netherlands
Q4 2019
Pilot in Jordan
Q1
2019
Create
Mobile
App

14. Thank You!
For questions, follow-ups & collaborations:
contact@rafiqi.net