Setelin
Sweden launches app store for refugees https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/setelin/id1150147569?mt=8
Newcomers to Sweden can struggle to settle in - but help is on hand in the form of a brand new online platform full of handy apps for language learners, job hunters, and anyone else trying to get by in their new home. The Setelin platform, a kind of app store for immigrants, launched in the fall of 2016. It came about after the Migration Agency’s deputy director, Mikael Ribbenvik, got in touch with some leading lights in the Stockholm startup scene. Setelin will combine 20 apps across eight categories, all aimed at smoothing integration, and ranging from accommodation to jobs, legal advice, access to services, and meeting Swedish friends. The Migration Agency will link to the platform from its website. The agency has vetted all the apps, but didn’t spend a single krona on their creation - it all emerged from the tech community’s great will to help. Once the platform is up and running the apps will be rated by users, with the most popular given prominence on the platform.