--- title: Translation, Legal Advice and More: How Tech Helps Refugees description: How mobile tech is helping refugees in exile, why Google needs customer support and more. canonical: https://time.com/4362648/translation-legal-advice-and-more-how-tech-helps-refugees/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-09T16:00:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:55.247Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Translation, Apps and More: How Tech is Helping Refugees og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4362648/translation-legal-advice-and-more-how-tech-helps-refugees/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Translation, Apps and More: How Tech is Helping Refugees twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Translation, Legal Advice and More: How Tech Helps Refugees by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 9, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 9, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how technology is changing refugee lives in exile.**](http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/looking-back-moving-forward/refugees-and-the-technology-of-exile/) By David Lepeska in the Wilson Quarterly **2\.** [**Google has billions of customers. It’s time they offered customer support.**](http://www.recode.net/2016/5/30/11800532/google-consumer-facing-customer-service) By Mark Lowenstein in Re/Code **3\.** [**Development aid is best spent in poor, well-governed countries. That isn’t where it goes.**](http://www.economist.com/news/international/21700323-development-aid-best-spent-poor-well-governed-countries-isnt-where-it) By the Economist **4\.** [**Could genetically-modified mice help control Lyme disease?**](https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/07/nantucket-lyme-genetic-engineering/) By Ike Swetlitz in STAT **5\.** [**The World Bank is right to stop labeling most countries “developing.”**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/06/01/good-riddance-to-the-world-banks-developing-nations/ideas/nexus/) By Charles Kenny at Zócalo Public Square  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4362648/translation-legal-advice-and-more-how-tech-helps-refugees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4362648/translation-legal-advice-and-more-how-tech-helps-refugees/"},"headline":"Translation, Legal Advice and More: How Tech Helps Refugees","datePublished":"2016-06-09T16:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:55.247Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4362648/translation-legal-advice-and-more-how-tech-helps-refugees/","keywords":["Innovation","Google","Refugees","development","world bank"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4362648/translation-legal-advice-and-more-how-tech-helps-refugees/","name":"Translation, Legal Advice and More: How Tech Helps Refugees"}}]}] ```