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Refugee Matching
Social Media Website for displaced persons to find one another. | |
I read the other day that there are more displaced persons
now than at any other time in history. I don't have a citation
but it seems plausible. Regardless, it seems like the
inevitable splitting of families that can occur during mass
migrations should be easily solvable with a good database
and
something like Facebook. If there isn't a charity maintaining a
service for people like the Syrian refugees to find each other,
I think there should be.
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Everybody could join isil websites with secret plans to open 7-11 franchises and articles such as "hot dogs... it's not really meat, anyways". |
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I am glad this did not involve matches. |
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This might also help immigration authorities to find and remove them [+]. |
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Displaced is one thing but is locating a family member that difficult? Modern refugees have cell phones, no? |
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Many cities/villages have (or can quickly get) Wikipedia
pages. Maybe just add a section at the bottom of the
WIkipedia page for refugees to find lost family. "Lost &
Found People?" |
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If you know you're from that neighborhood, it's likely to
narrow the search considerably, and neighbors know each
other & share stories. |
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[bungston]- Some refugees don't have cell phones because
they are lost/stolen, or they are too young/poor to own
one. |
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Should be possible. Google does approximately this for
natural disaster displacees. People can report displacees as
safe, IIRC, so that others don't waste effort searching for
them. Palantir does something like that as well, I think. |
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