Presentation from the Techfugees Melbourne webinar for the participants

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Techfugees Melbourne
APRIL 15/16/17
LaunchPad 3 / 132 Cremorne St, Cremorne VIC 3121, Australia

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Agenda
Why Who What When Where
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Why
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Who
Prize Sponsors Event Sponsors Not For Profit Partners
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What Problems
• Disability access and support
The inability of people with a disability to know about and access
support.
• Employment
Lack of recognition of qualifications; lack of work references and
Australian employment experience.
• Entrepreneurship
Lack of ability to access support to become familiar with systems,
knowledge and networks to start own business in Australia.
• Food security
Lack of income for many asylum seekers and refugees on low incomes
is a daily issue for prioritising seeking employment, transport,
children’s needs and food
• Health
Many refugees and asylum seekers experience chronic illness and yet
are unaware of the range of medical services to support them.
• Housing
Insecure housing as a result of limited income, overcrowding,
exploitation acts as a major barrier to the successful long term
settlement for people.
• Language
Without English proficiency or access to interpreters, refugees and
asylum seekers are disadvantaged yet only some categories of visas
are allowed to access the maximum of 510 hours of English classes.
• Legal system
People at the time of arrival cannot be expected to know all the
elements of Australia’s legal system and may break laws here that did
not exist in their home country.
• Migration advice
Access to skilled and qualified legal advocates is critical and yet, as a
result of demand, is not available to everyone seeking asylum.
• Migration hub
Access to services provided by migration hubs are important but
transport and time can be a problem.
• Qualifications
The lack of recognition of skills and qualifications gained overseas
wastes the lives of refugees and asylum seekers as they are unable to
work in their area of expertise. Australia’s productivity is also
disadvantaged.
• Tracing
The dramatic increase in global migration has led to rising numbers of
families being separated along perilous routes through diverse
countries
• Translating and interpreting.
Without access to interpreters, refugees and asylum seekers with
limited English are unable to negotiate systems, access services or
understand critical information about themselves and yet funding for
interpreting services is diminishing and many people are not offered
access.
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What to bring

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What we ask of you
Register @ http://techfugees-melb-au-2016.devpost.com/
• During welcome event, form team
with individuals with different skill
sets to work on a challenge that
everybody wants to solve.
• Teams consist of Hackers, Hipsters,
Hustlers & Humanitarians
• Team Size: Min of 4 – Max of 6
• Use any tech you are familiar with
• AWS will have folks on the group &
providing credits
• Consult the list of data sources
• Mentors available over the
weekend
• Submit to DevPost by 2:00pm
Sunday 17 April. Be sure to include
the
• A team name
• A team icon, image, or logo
• Upload the proposal onto DevPost
before 2:00pm on Sunday 17 April,
2016
• Post source code (if any) to github
• Deliver a five minute pitch to
judges and allow five minutes for
Q&A
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Code of Conduct http://hackcodeofconduct.org/

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When
Fri 15/4 Sat 16/4 Sun 17/4
6:00
7:00
8:00 Breakfast Breakfast
9:00
10:00
11:00
12:00 Lunch Lunch
13:00 Prep for Pitch
14:00
Pitch Ceremony
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00 Dinner
19:00
Kickoff20:00
21:00
22:00
• Kickoff: Friday 7pm
• Introduce problems
• Form teams
• Saturday 8am – Sunday 1pm
• Hack Time
• Mentors available to help
• Pitch Ceremony: Sunday 2pm
• 5 Minute Pitch/Demo
• 5 Minute Q&A
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Where
• LaunchPad 3
132 Cremorne St
Richmond, VIC 3121
• Train, Tram, Bus recommended!
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Melbourne Organising Committee
ORGANISERS Twitter
Shelli Trung @shellitrung
Lama Tayeh @lamatayeh
Lynda Ford @communityep
Michael Coburn
Frank Arrigo @frankarr
Wesa Chau @wesachau
Jieh-Yung Lo @jiehyunglo
Justin Taylor @jtango18
Jason Cormier @jadacormier
Ahmed Salama @AceSalama
Twitter
@TechFugeesAust1
Hashtag
#hack4refugees
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See you Friday night!!!
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