Tag: Tech for Good

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.

The European trip she took at age 16 gave her not only perspective, but purpose. It put her on a career path she likely never would have gone down: combating human trafficking. She does this through her company Marinus Analytics, which provides law enforcement with tools that utilize artificial intelligence to help identify victims and their exploiters.

Andiamo aims to bring 3-D scanned and printed orthotics to families and children in the UK—and soon, the world. What the London-based startup, through 3-D scanning and printing, has the potential to solve for is what every great new technology brings to the party: a better, faster, and cheaper approach.

This week in AWS Startup Stories* we talked to Tessa Cook, CEO, and co-founder of OLIO Exchange – a food sharing app that builds connections between neighbours and local businesses in order to re-distribute surplus goods.

The social good sector focuses on creating a positive impact on an individual or society. Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a 20% growth in the nonprofit sector alone. It’s not news that the social good sector is growing rapidly.