Tech for Social Good
Tech for Social Good leverages GitHub’s platform, products, community, and people to strengthen the social sector’s efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Tech for Social Good’s Commitment to the SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a powerful global framework to measure human development. In aligning its work with the SDGs, Tech for Social Good ensures its efforts are supporting clear and transparent measures of human progress. We tracked how we used our time to support 8 of the 17 SDGs.
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Our Key Activities
Research
We answer key questions to help the social sector build better technology solutions and collaborative cultures.
Community building
We bring together communities around the SDGs and technology topics that are relevant in the social sector.
Guides and Tools
We create guides, case studies and other resources to help the social sector use and contribute back to open source solutions.
Sponsorship
We support community events that promote Tech for Social Good work on the SDGs.
Highlighted Programs
MERL Center
The MERL Center is an open source community founded by Tech for Social Good and in partnership with Kurante/MERL Tech. Members of the MERL Center collaborate and create guides, case studies and other resources on if, how and when to use open source for monitoring, evaluation, research & learning (MERL) practitioners.
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Skills-Based Volunteering
In 2020, the Social Impact Team launched the Skills-Based Volunteering program to help social sector organizations address common challenges they face using GitHub and other tech platforms. Hubbers help social sector organizations address these challenges through short term virtual volunteering projects.
Read more on our Insights pageWorld Health Organization (WHO) and COVID-19
We’re supporting WHO in their COVID-19 work, helping WHO build their open source ecosystem and documenting learnings from other public health technology organizations using GitHub, such as DHIS2 and Dimagi.
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Open Source Research
We published our flagship research product, Open Source Software in the Social Sector, as a free resource in April 2020. We're doing additional open source social sector research and working with the Digital Public Goods Alliance to improve GitHub based on our research findings.
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Engagement Opportunities
Participate in our Open Source Software research project
We need your help! We’re looking for participants who have experience with open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt and Mexico.
Learn moreRequest for Proposals - Defining Standardized GitHub Metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing an RFP for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. Apply by October 4, 2021.
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The Epidemiologist R Handbook, a new open source public health resource
Epidemiologists around the world have come together to create the Epidemiology R Handbook, which is hosted on GitHub.
Participate in our research project on OSS in the social sector in low- and middle-income countries
GitHub Tech for Social Good and Olive Branch International are looking for participants in a new esearch project on OSS in the social sector in low- and middle-income countries.
What are digital public goods and the DPGA?
Digital public goods (DPG) describes open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, or open content that adhere to the DPG Standard.
Open Source for Good Updates
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