Digital access & skills
Plain-language support that helps community members use devices, online services and digital tools with confidence.
Seattle-based · Community-led · Technology-focused
Technology should open doors—not create another barrier.
Tech4RIM works alongside refugees, immigrants and migrants to expand digital access, make essential information easier to navigate and create pathways for young people to lead.
Peoplebefore platforms
Access
Skills
Voice
Why we exist
Digital equity begins with lived experience.
People navigating a new country often face essential systems that assume reliable internet, strong English, technical confidence and familiarity with local institutions. Tech4RIM is building practical, multilingual and community-informed ways to close those gaps.
Read our storyOur focus
Three connected paths to opportunity
We combine technology, trusted relationships and community knowledge so people can find information, build skills and shape the tools intended for them.
Resource navigation
Community-informed pathways to education, health, employment and social services—designed for multilingual access.
Youth leadership
Opportunities for young people to learn, create, mentor and help define more inclusive technology.
Featured projectCommunity resource prototype
From community need to a working concept
Tech4RIM sponsored a Seattle University student capstone team to explore a multilingual digital resource-navigation experience. The prototype is preserved as a foundation for future community testing and development.
Evidence & public voice
Research shaped by lived experience.
Tech4RIM’s foundation includes published research, refugee-led storytelling, youth education and public conversations about digital access, migration and opportunity.
Digital equity and access
Explore work examining the digital gap exposed by COVID-19 and the responsibility to make technology and internet access more equitable.
Read the researchFrom Kakuma to Seattle
See the founder-led youth advocacy, digital-skills education, STEM learning and storytelling work that shaped Tech4RIM.
Explore the timelineMedia, panels and partnerships
Read independent coverage from Seattle University, the Gates Discovery Center, Team Gather and other public sources.
View features and eventsBuild with us
Strong partnerships turn good ideas into lasting access.
We welcome youth groups, schools, community organizations, technologists, volunteers and funders who want to build practical solutions with refugee, immigrant and migrant communities.
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