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 in 2021 to support 9 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 monitoring, evaluation, research & learning (MERL) Center is an open source community founded by Tech for Social Good and in partnership with MERL Tech. Members of the MERL Center collaborate to create guides, case studies and other resources on if, how and when to use open source for MERL solutions.
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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
MERL Center second stipend
The second MERL Center stipend is now open! Apply by June 13, 2022.
Read moreParticipate in our research project on Standardized GitHub Metrics for International Development, Public Policy, and Economics
If you currently use GitHub data or would like to use GitHub data in your international development, public policy, or economics work, we want to hear from you. Please fill out the form below by Wednesday, May 1, 2022.
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The World Health Organization is launching its Open Source Programme Office
GitHub has supported the creation of a World Health Organization Open Source Programme Office (OSPO). While there are OSPOs in large tech companies, academic institutions, and governments, the WHO OSPO will be the first in the greater United Nations (UN) system.
GitHub Social Impact at MozFest 2022
The GitHub Social Impact team is excited to host a number of live, virtual sessions at MozFest
Participate in our new research project on standardized GitHub metrics
We're launching a new research project and are looking for expert participants...
Open Source for Good Updates
Tech for Social Good runs the Open Source for Good mailing list.
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