Refugee urges thousands at hacker congress to use skills to help newcomers

Chaos Communications Congress, Europe's largest hacker conference, opened with call to action from Fatuma Musa Afrah: 'Things are solved by human beings'

Fatuma Musa Afrah was 16 when she touched a computer for the first time in Kenya. Somalian by birth, she insists that people use the word "newcomer" instead of "refugee" to refer to her.

Musa Afrah inaugurated the largest hacker conference in Europe, the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, by declaring she knew nothing about the field of IT. Linus Neumann from the Chaos Computer Club, which has organized the congress every year since 1984, had to work hard to convince her to come.