Making an Impact through Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software GHTC 2013

How Did I Get Here?

MIT Loans Paid, 2 Startups and 24 Years Later…

Come do social good with me!

When can I start?

SCALE INNOVATION

What Does Benetech Do?

create software for Maximum Social Benefit

solve large, critical problems in Areas of Need

human rights

global literacy

environment

Technology Assists Students with Learning and Physical Print Disabilities

Jessica, Steffon and Shane are three of 250,000+ members who can access Bookshare’s library of 210,000+ books, textbooks and periodicals with reading tools tailored to their special needs

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Open Source in our Global Literacy Program

Build Upon Create & Contribute

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Why: Economics

Why: Economics

Why: Innovation Needs Collaboration

Benetech Organizational Truths ●  We prefer open to proprietary ●  We think we can do more together http://benetech.org/about-us/mission-history/

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DAISY  

IDPF  

LRMI  

Academia  

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Why: Expanding our Impact

Bookshare / Chafee Qualified

Other Disabilities (e.g. ADHD, Austism) and English Language Learners

Why: Harvest Volunteer Contributions

Microfinance

Education

SocialCoding4Good Apply your tech skills to social good by volunteering with

organizations like Benetech, which develop HFOSS

Disaster Relief

Human Rights

Global Health

Impact: Mifos

From basic 3-hour tasks to expert three-month

projects, SocialCoding4Good

matches volunteers + projects based on

experience, skillset, and availability

Mifos is used by microfinance institutions around the globe to provide financial inclusion for more than one million people working their way out of poverty •  Deanna McCusker volunteered for three

months, designing a user interface for the newly launched Mifos X software. She continues to contribute time to guiding its implementation!

Impact: Mozilla Webmaker

Mozilla’s Popcorn adds interactivity & real-time context to online video using browser technologies like HTML5 •  Cisco teams developed easy ways for teachers

to create digital learning resources - like this in-video quiz, or this real-time feed that displays keywords and research links to information on a video’s topic

At Cisco Back-to-School Volunteer Day

& Code Sprint, web developers created Mozilla Webmaker plug-ins for use in

educational settings

Impact: Mobile Martus

Hack on projects and prototypes that will live on beyond the hackathon and become sustainable field

ready products

Getting Involved

●  Visit http://socialcoding4good.org

●  Fill out volunteer profile –  Skills –  Availability (hours, days, weeks) –  Open source experience

●  Get your employer involved –  Skills-based / probono employee volunteering programs for Corporate

Social Responsibility and Human Resources groups –  Current program partners include VMware, HP

Get involved: socialcoding4good.org

Gerardo Capiel

gerardo@benetech.org Twitter: @gcapiel