Doing good with technology from our base in Silicon Valley! Check out our open source projects Aselo and Terraso.
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We're honored to be developing open source tools as part of the Technology Tools part of this 10M round of grants. Our Aselo project is planning to work on practical applications of AI for helplines spanning North America, the Caribbean and Africa.
👏 Congratulations to our 23 new grantees awarded USD 10M to tackle digital harms!
With these strategic investments, Safe Online continues to lead the fight against online threats to children, promoting safety in the digital space. #SafeOnline
bit.ly/OpenCallAwardees
A8. Pt 1 Our Aselo project has privileged access to the data collected by our helpline partners, who agree to working together with their peers to better listen to the voices of children all over the world. 1/2
A7: @SafeOnlineFund is an engaged funder that not only supports our open source development work with funding, but also connects us to a vibrant community of organizations with complementary missions, as well as policymakers in the field. Yay!
A6. Pt 1. We are working with a number of AI companies to support different parts of this effort supported by @SafeOnlineFund, such as scrubbing text transcripts of personally identifiable information before training AI models. 1/2
Join @SafeOnlineFund for an X chat with @TechMatters and 22 other grantees who received $10 million for innovative projects to combat digital threats. Starts in an hour!
📅 Date: June 26, 2024
⏰ Time: 9am EST (3pm CET)
#DigitalSafety #SafeOnline
Seeing that tech benefits all of humanity, not just the richest 10%, is key to our mission at Tech Matters. Check out the @TechMatters podcast, hosted by our founder, @JimFruchterman, as he interviews top leaders in the nonprofit #TechForGood field!
Tune into @TechMatters where tech & social good unite. Hosted by @JimFruchterman, you'll gain insights from transformative social impact organizations. Discover how technology is used to challenge global issues while ensuring software design puts people first. #podcastdelivery
Our founder, @JimFruchterman, is doing this TwitterChat right now with the #SafeOnline team at the @GPtoEndViolence (against children). Talking about the issues facing kids online.
Online #CSEA is growing at an alarming rate with @MissingKids receiving 32 million reports in 2022 (up from 29 million in 2021) of suspected CSAM from all over the world.
We are starting TwitterChat to tackle online child sexual exploitation and abuse #SafeOnlineNow!
We're proud to be part of this new investment round from #SafeOnline. We'll be focusing on the complex challenge of repeat callers for child helplines as part of our @Aselo_org platform for crisis response helplines.
Meet the winners of #SafeOnline’s new Investment Round!
These 8 projects will lead to game-changing evidence, applications and learning, and build on six years of earlier investments in countries across the world.
Link: bit.ly/SafeOnline_invests4M
#SafeOnlineNow
The team @TechMatters has greatly benefited from the support of @Okta: the tech itself, the team, and grants. We want to revolutionize the field of crisis support helplines, while ensuring that we keep secure their data of vulnerable people with @Aselo_org .
Witness the power of technology for social good! 👩💻🌎
Follow @MercyCorps, @TechnoServe, and @TechMatters as they revolutionize agriculture, micro-retail, and crisis counseling through Okta's Innovation Lab.
Discover the journey of innovation and impact: bit.ly/3JAc6MS
Terraso was co-designed with landscape leaders to empower community-led solutions and support sustainable local economies. Terraso is the tech component of @1000_Landscapes. Join our May 25th webinar; register at Terraso.org #ClimateAction #Sustainability #TechForGood
Terraso launches today! It's our free set of data/tech tools giving communities/landscape leaders the ability to address the local impacts of climate change. Terraso is already being used in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Read more at terraso.org/launch. #ClimateCrisis
Delighted to announce that we are now an independent #TechForGood nonprofit with our own board and 501c3 charitable status in the U.S. Thanks so much to our supporters and @Benetech for fiscally sponsoring us!
techmatters.org/tech-matters… #techforgood #SocEnt
We very much appreciate the coverage of @TechMatters becoming its own 501c3 nonprofit, after our four years of incubation by @Benetech. Of course, we share a common founder! #techforgood
.@TechMatters, a tech-for-good organisation focused on bringing the power of tech to social change leaders, is now a new independent nonprofit. It announced its new status as an independent nonprofit last week at #SkollWF. alliancemagazine.org/blog/te…
Exciting news: @OmidyarNetwork has recognized @TechMatters with a #FutureofData Challenge award for Terraso, our open-source platform that puts data & tools into the hands of local leaders working on the economic/environmental impact of climate change. futureofdatachallenge.org/re…
A key point about @Callisto is that it connects unrelated parties who have both securely identified the same perpetrator with legal counsel (and let's them know that at least one other person has identified the same perp). This makes "false accusations" less of an issue.
Our CEO, @JimFruchterman, has been invited to join this meeting in Brussels (and of course plans to go). We have high hopes about the leadership role Europe can play in protecting children online. #SafeOnline
Children need safe digital futures 🖥️!
With @WeProtect @europarl @Childmanifesto, #SafeOnline initiative is convening Data for Change event💡
Join us to discuss the current data ecosystem, identify gaps, solutions & opportunities for collaboration.
👉bit.ly/DataEvent_SafeOnline
The cool thing about this breakthrough is that @Aselo_org (our open source cloud platform for crisis response helplines) is now effectively pre-approved. @UNDP programs and partners can choose Aselo quickly in an emergency (or not) when setting up or upgrading a helpline.
Great news for our @Aselo_org
team! The United Nations Development Program (@UNDP) ran a global competition for "ready-to-scale digital solutions with the urgent needs of UNDP, UN partners, and governments." We're honored that they chose Aselo!
digitalx.undp.org/aselo_1.ht…
Our founder was just published in @techonomy, talking about why nonprofits need open source software! #TechForGood
Nonprofits Need Open Source Software - My new article published today on @techonomy, explaining the modern world of cloud open source software like @kobotoolbox (and like Aselo and Terraso, what we build @TechMatters). techonomy.com/nonprofits-nee…
Major new tech leadership opportunity @Benetech (our nonprofit parent: we share a common founder). These kinds of roles are few and far between: using top engineering management skill to (really) change the world!
VP, Product & Technology paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.…
Our founder, @JimFruchterman, explains how we build the incredible @TechMatters team by having:
- a compressed wage scale
- hire globally, pay locally
- treat all as full team members
So far, so good! #TechForGood
People often ask us how we find people willing to join a #TechForGood nonprofit, which can't match the pay of a tech titan in Silicon Valley. I just wrote a post on our hiring and compensation strategies to answer that question!
techmatters.org/building-the… #socent