Tag: Tech for Good

Telehealth is changing healthcare as we know it. With platforms like Talkspace and Better Help at our fingertips, talk therapy in particular has become increasingly accessible. But according to William Negley, CEO of Sound Off, there are still major gaps to fill.

Convoy Inc., a digital freight network, uses machine learning on AWS to help the shipping industry increase its sustainability and reduce CO2 emissions. Aaron Terrazas, director of economic research at Convoy, and Jennifer Wong, head of sustainability marketing at Convoy, recently shared more on the AWS Fix This podcast about shipping, sustainability, and how the cloud powers Convoy’s work. 

ReDI School is a startup social enterprise that teaches technical skills to refugees from all over the world. It is unlike any startup in the world, and yet its co-founders are working through the same issues that every startup faces.

Founded in 2017 by Byron Dai and Rahul Mahida, Daivergent is a platform that connects companies with high-volume data needs—most of them artificial intelligence-related—to a remote workforce comprised of people with autism. Dai and Mahida sat down to tell us more.

Given the global ubiquity of social media and our ever-interconnected virtual experiences, it might be easy to assume, when thinking about building a platform’s user base, that universal goals are always best. That may be the case for certain sectors, but crowdfunding is a different animal. As a crowdfunding platform specifically tailored to the giving needs and patterns of Indonesians, Kitabisa understands that.

In 2018, AWS launched its Hackdays program, offering teams from around ASEAN the opportunity and resources to build projects and compete for prizes, the top of which was a trip to Las Vegas for the annual re:Invent conference. Over 1,000 developers from countries including Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand formed teams to develop new technologies during a one day hackathon. The winners of those days then squared off in Jakarta, with the team from Thailand ultimately winning the top prize and the trip to Las Vegas.

David Crane, Director of Engineering at DonorsChoose.org; Nick Horelick, Co-founder & CTO at RapidSOS; and Ben Haas, VP of Engineering at Call9; sit down with Tracy Baldwin, Global Lead of AWS Sustainability, to discuss how they’re using “tech for good” to tackle big problems and driving social change in their communities.

Gideon Taub, founder and CEO of Pinkaloo, has studied the issue of engaging millenials, and he’s become something of an expert. He knows that the desire for social consciousness extends to employment choices.

In 2007, Chuck Slaughter launched his new social enterprise, Living Goods, in Uganda, “borrowing from the Avon playbook.” But instead of going door-to-door selling lipstick and hand creams, Living Goods’ community health workers arrive on local doorsteps offering medical services, health education, medicines, and health products.

Growing up in Bahrain, Esra’a Al Shafei saw the damage that authoritarian regimes could inflict on minority voices, political outliers, and the causes of social justice. From a young age, she felt an enormous sense of responsibility to take action.