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Empowering People to Do Good: Unlocking Tech-for-Good Innovation
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
October 10, 2014
Anh Bui
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About Benetech
• A nonprofit that develops
technology to create
positive social change.
• 70 employees, a
community of hundreds
of volunteers.
• Leadership team with
experience in tech,
startups, and social
innovation.
Four core program
areas:
• Global Literacy
• Human Rights
• Environment
• Benetech Labs
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The Benetech Story
Benetech was
founded to
empower people
whose needs are
often not a priority.
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Our Technology
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How We’ve Made a Difference
Global Literacy
• Bookshare
serving over
330,000 users in
nearly 50
countries
• Collection of
300,000+
accessible
ebooks
• 6 million ebooks
downloaded
Human Rights
• 220,000+
accounts of
violations
secured with
Martus
• Hundreds of
groups and
individuals, in
50 countries,
trained on data
security
• Environmental
conservation
teams in over 170
countries use
Miradi to protect
species and
ecosystems
• Over 1,000
software
professionals
signed up to
volunteer their
skills to
humanitarian tech
projects via
SocialCoding4
Good
Environment Benetech Labs
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Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story
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You Are Not Alone
Harness the power of
the tech community..
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We Are Better Together
Benetech Truth #5: Partnership Over Going
Alone
“Benetech’s strength is in developing
technology responsive to real-world needs,
but we can’t do it alone.”
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How Do We Do This Together?
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The DIAGRAM Center: A Case Study
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DIAGRAM = Accessible Graphics
[Image of tactile graphic from Asilomar]
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Collaborative Community: DNA
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Collaborative Community: Breadth
Bringing together field leaders with a range of expertise.
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Collaborative Community: Depth
[image of working group from a diagram meeting?]
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MathML Cloud = Accessible Math
Reader Experience
What one sees… What one hears…
Without MathML
Cloud “image”
With MathML
Cloud
“start frac y sub 2 minus y sub 1 over x sub 2 minus x sub 1 end
frac equals minus 10”
MathML Cloud
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Rolling Up Our Sleeves
Hacking together is one of the most effective ways
we’ve worked together.
[image from OERPUB a11y sprint?]
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For a proof of concept…
And for a proof of relationship.
One Day Is Enough
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One Day Is Not Enough
You can only write so much code in a day.
It’s a community that extends the life of the
project.
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Extended Life through New Partnerships
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Extended Dev Through Openness
We embrace being open source and built for
collaboration.
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Lessons in Effective Collaboration
• Clear action
items
• Extended plan
of action
• Access to
stakeholders
and end users
• Open
platform, if
possible
• Build for
collaboration
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Applying the Formula: Sample Book
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Applying the Formula: 3D Printing
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DIAGRAM Is Not Alone
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About SocialCoding4Good
Drive
awareness of the power of open source software
for social good & the nonprofit organizations creating it as their core
mission
Connect
software development professionals to
opportunities to volunteer time and talent with these
nonprofit organizations
Drive
awareness of the power of open source
software for social good & the nonprofit
organizations creating it as their core
mission
Connect
software development
professionals to opportunities to
volunteer time and talent with these
nonprofit organizations
Ignite
sustainable, cross-sector collaboration across the nonprofit, corporate, and open source technology
communities
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Tech CSR
Volunteering + Service
Academic
Open Source Software for Social Good
Tech for Good
Bridging Communities for Good
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Open Source for Social Good
Drive
awareness of the power of open source software
for social good & the nonprofit organizations creating it as their core
mission
"For Medic Mobile, a single deployed project can
improve healthcare delivery for more than 5
million people worldwide, immediately, then for
millions more for years to come. That’s powerful
impact.”
- Josh Nesbit, Medic Mobile CEO
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Tech Volunteers Making a Difference
Drive
awareness of the power of open source software
for social good & the nonprofit organizations creating it as their core
mission
• Volunteer opportunities for experienced professionals.
• Long-term partnerships support ongoing employee
engagement and pro bono initiatives.
• Complement non-technical “hearts and hands” giving.
• Work from anywhere, on small tasks or extended projects.
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At Cisco Back-to-
School Volunteer Day
& Code Sprint, web
developers created
fun learning tools for
use in educational
settings.
Small Projects, Big Impact
Mozilla Popcorn Maker
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Extended Projects, Extended Impact
SocialCoding4Good
supports VMware
employees with
technical volunteer
opportunities for
Service Learning
programs.
Mifos X
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Join forces!
Want to Make a Difference?
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Keep in Touch
Benetech.org
@Benetech
@DIAGRAMC
@SC4G
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Thank You!