Tech for Good Newsletter - Issue 74
Issue 74 - August 31, 2021
Happy Tuesday!
I hope your week is off to a great start! This week I’ve highlighted a few interesting reads on remote service design, digital learning platforms, and how technology can help sustainability efforts. Additionally, I’ve found two new funding opportunities for those of you working in SE Asia.
At Glean this month, we are focused on finalizing our integrated data platform with our partner Liferay. We’ve been working on building a solution that organizations in Cambodia can use to bring all of their databases and legacy systems into once place and share that information with partners and stakeholders. If this is something you are working on or interested in, please send me an email at jesse@glean.net. I’d love to hear more about what you are working on.
Have a great week!
Jesse
What’s interesting this week…
This is Service Design (Remotely) Doing
Nupoor Rajkumar, a service designer wrote this amazing article highlighting some of the challenges, as well as her solutions for doing remote service design this year. Many of us who work in design focus on collaboration in our work and 2021 has continued to complicate our ability to run workshops, or design sessions in person. Nupoor covers some fantastic solutions she’s found.
Choosing the Right Digital Platform for Learning and Training Needs
As the world familiarizes itself with online learning in our COVID-19-affected times, we have been exposed to many seamless ways to experience remote learning. However, when we switch roles—from learning to developing different types of courses—this generalized exposure and all the technical terms for ways digital learning material is presented can become overwhelming. This blog explains the two most common platforms used to present eLearning material: Content Management Systems (CMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
How Technology Can Help Businesses Achieve Their Sustainability Goals
Jason Gates, CEO of Compology writes a compelling post on how technology can help businesses achieve their sustainability goals. Jason dives deep on a sustainability model that can make sense for businesses or organizations looking to understand how technology can help them.
Cambodia: Digital Content Creators Get Aid For Social Projects
Creators of online content that provides education or social benefits are to get cash incentives from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
A budget of $100,000 a year has been set aside for creators such as vloggers, YouTubers, digital artists, influencers, filmmakers, and music and digital animation producers.
Funding: Voice Out! Cambodia
Through this call for proposals, we are looking for empowering and transformative approaches that will enable the rightsholder groups to strengthen their capacities to access resources and participate in civic space amidst the pandemic and beyond.
Funding: Artificial Intelligence Accountability Reporting Grants
The Pulitzer Center is seeking to support freelancers and newsrooms focusing on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of algorithms to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.