Opening pathways through technology
Open Pathway Collective is a not-for-profit technology organisation dedicated to unlocking opportunities for displaced people. We build open-source software that connects refugees with the organisations that can support them.
Why now?
117.8 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2025. 28.5 million of them are refugees under UNHCR's mandate.
A crisis this large and this dispersed often leaves individuals and organisations feeling powerless to help. Services remain fragmented and data stays in silos. Providers deliver overlapping services without coordinating, so there is waste in some places and gaps in others. Every organisation builds its own tools, which drives up the cost of each outcome.
There is no shared infrastructure that lets organisations coordinate around a refugee's qualifications, skills, experience and aspirations. That is what we build.
Figures: UNHCR Global Trends, figures to end of 2025, published June 2026. Checked October 2026.
A software platform that makes existing services more effective
The Global Refugee Network is our flagship platform. Refugees keep one profile, and employment, training, migration and settlement services can all work from it. Each side can find the other.
For refugees
- Register once
- Anyone can create a profile of their skills, qualifications, experience and goals, wherever they are and whatever their visa status.
- Choose who sees you
- Organisations see an anonymised profile. The full profile is only shared when the refugee approves the request, and every decision leaves an audit trail.
For service providers
- Find candidates
- Search anonymised profiles across the network. AI matching ranks candidates and explains why each one fits.
- Be seen
- List your employment, training, migration or settlement services so refugees on the network can find them. We help you connect, even if you have no engineers of your own.
This initiative brings back hope for a better future, and I am grateful for the chance to help others change their lives through their own skills.
Meet the board and teamI view OPC as a practical opportunity for refugees globally at a time when traditional solutions are diminishing rapidly, and I fully believe in the team's mission.
Projects
We take on work that scales existing solutions or lowers the cost of delivering them, helps refugees show their verified skills, and helps organisations work together.
- Global Refugee NetworkFlagship platformShared, consent-based infrastructure that connects refugees with employment, training, migration and settlement services.
- Talent Beyond BoundariesEngineering supportEngineering oversight and infrastructure management for the world's leading refugee labour mobility organisation.
Have a problem that shared, open technology could solve for displaced people? Tell us about it.
Built in the open
The codebase has supported skilled refugee migration for ten years, and it runs in production today. It is open source, so the sector shares the cost of maintenance and security, and more funding goes to direct support.
We look after the Talent Catalog repository on GitHub and write most of its code. Volunteers and Pro Bono Fellows work alongside us.
$ git clone https://github.com/Talent-Catalog/talentcatalog
# Java, Spring Boot, Angular, PostgreSQL
# AWS with Terraform. Licensed GPL-3.0Get involved
Refugees can register for free, whatever their visa status, and stay visible to employers, training and settlement services.
How registration worksOrganisations can partner with us on a mission-aligned project, or use what we've already built.
Partner with usFunders can back shared infrastructure, where one investment improves every service on the network.
Fund a Pro Bono FellowshipEngineers can pick up a help-wanted issue in Java, Angular or PostgreSQL and ship code that changes lives.
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