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Urban refugees make up 80 percent of the 650,000 registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan, and two-thirds of refugees worldwide. Yet their access to aid is far below the level of camp-based refugees.(https://f.ch9.ms/thumbnail/552aa854-940e-4b3a-84ac-9f760efd34af.png)A group of university students in Boston, Massachusetts decided to band together and leverage innovative technologies to develop a mobile, cross-platform app that will be used by non-camp, urban Syrian refugees living in Amman, Jordan, to locate non-governmental organizations and service providers.Join Jerry Nixon (https://twitter.com/jerrynixon) as he welcomes the team from Urban Refuge as they describe how they worked with a team of Microsoft Technical Evangelists to help create this cross-platform app using Xamarin.* [6:48 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=6m48s)] Tell us about Urban Refuge. What do you do?* [10:20 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=10m20s)] How has smart phones impacted refuges?* [12:25 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=12m25s)] Let's talk about what's powering this app. How did you go about building an app that could run on any device?* [17:42 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=17m42s)] How can you service this type of world-wide app?* [22:30 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=22m30s)] What part of this app do you think will make the biggest difference?* [28:26 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=28m26s)] What's the future for Urban Refuge?If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:Websites & Blogs: * Jerry Nixon's Blog (http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200117938)* James Sturtevantâs Blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jamessturtevant/)* Urban Refuge (http://www.urbanrefuge.org/) (http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=https://s.ch9.ms/Blogs/DevRadio/feed/mp4&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:f09d7f59e9b742f1b9e2a6ce00d48537)
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Urban refugees make up 80 percent of the 650,000 registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan, and two-thirds of refugees worldwide. Yet their access to aid is far below the level of camp-based refugees.(https://f.ch9.ms/thumbnail/552aa854-940e-4b3a-84ac-9f760efd34af.png)A group of university students in Boston, Massachusetts decided to band together and leverage innovative technologies to develop a mobile, cross-platform app that will be used by non-camp, urban Syrian refugees living in Amman, Jordan, to locate non-governmental organizations and service providers.Join Jerry Nixon (https://twitter.com/jerrynixon) as he welcomes the team from Urban Refuge as they describe how they worked with a team of Microsoft Technical Evangelists to help create this cross-platform app using Xamarin.* [6:48 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=6m48s)] Tell us about Urban Refuge. What do you do?* [10:20 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=10m20s)] How has smart phones impacted refuges?* [12:25 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=12m25s)] Let's talk about what's powering this app. How did you go about building an app that could run on any device?* [17:42 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=17m42s)] How can you service this type of world-wide app?* [22:30 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=22m30s)] What part of this app do you think will make the biggest difference?* [28:26 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1707#time=28m26s)] What's the future for Urban Refuge?If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:Websites & Blogs: * Jerry Nixon's Blog (http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200117938)* James Sturtevantâs Blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jamessturtevant/)* Urban Refuge (http://www.urbanrefuge.org/) (http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=https://s.ch9.ms/Blogs/DevRadio/feed/mp4&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:f09d7f59e9b742f1b9e2a6ce00d48537)