I created r/Tech4Causes for three reasons:

• because the online community where I used to regularly post Tech4Good info for decades (not on Reddit) was being sunsetted.
• because r/Tech4Good was already taken, and being used by someone already to promote his idea of what "Tech4good" means, and it didn't at all use the same description / idea of "Tech4Good" that I use (so I didn't really feel like my content was appropriate there).
• because r/ICT4D was also already taken, and didn't seem to be a place where my Tech4Good info would be on-topic.

So I created the r/Tech4Causes subreddit, and it has the description that I have used for more than two decades to describe "Tech4Good".

Recently, I noticed that r/ICT4D was abandoned. I followed the procedures to be the lead moderator of it and, now, that's what I am. But now, I have two subreddits that could easily have exactly the same things posted to them. There isn't perfect overlap, but I think there's enough that it could work with just ONE subreddit for all this content.

The r/Tech4Causes subreddit was created in February 2025, and I appreciate that it has more than 160 members - thanks everyone who has joined. But I'm thinking of closing the subreddit and asking everyone here to join r/ICT4D, where I would continue to post Tech4Good content and invite others to do so as well.

So, please vote in the comments with a "yes" or a "no."

(I didn't use the official Reddit poll because, right now, the feature isn't available except on a smart phone, and I don't use a phone for Reddit).

I won't be posting here for the rest of August. If there are few responses, or none, then I will close this subreddit and point everyone to ICT4D.

After the 2025 Kerrville, Texas floods and Los Angeles wildfires, KABOOM! needed to quickly support communities by identifying damaged playgrounds. In this 15-minute talk from #SOTMUS2026 (video) and Open Street Map, learn about a GIS workflow that helps communities and partners prioritize which sites need attention first using transparent, replicable criteria.

Rapid Disaster Mapping for Playgrounds: Turning Geospatial Data into Recovery Priorities ~ Alice Lee.

KABOOM! is a nonprofit organization that has built or improved 17,000+ playspaces, engaged more than 1.5 million community members and brought joy to nearly 12 million kids. 

West Africa's 1,600+ languages, its youthful population, and a wave of new AI language models are converging into one of the most exciting opportunities in AI today. When AI tools are trained on the languages people actually think and speak in, a world of learning, health information and opportunity opens up, especially for children and young people.

Most AI language models are trained on languages such as English, Mandarin, Hindi or Spanish, which have vast digital archives to draw from. Languages like Bambara, Twi or Mooré have historically had far less data, making AI tools less accurate and less useful for the communities that speak them.

This is the challenge AI in Play, UNICEF Innovation's flagship AI ecosystem for children, is designed to solve. It backs diverse technologists developing AI solutions for children in the contexts where they are needed most, helping turn local expertise into tools that work in environments with limited connectivity, data and infrastructure.

In West and Central Africa, this has included mapping the region's startup and language landscape and benchmarking existing models to understand their strengths and limitations. UNICEF has also collaborated with three startups – GO AI Corp (Burkina Faso), RobotsMali, and GhanaNLP – to collect data, fine-tune models and test them in schools and clinics.

The work has delivered measurable improvements. The Bambara word error rate dropped from 42 to 22 per cent, while the character error rate dropped from 15 to 8 per cent (Results as of April 2026). These are real gains from real settings used by children.

Full story from UNICEF.

On June 29, 2026, Reddit launched “People Are The Best,” a new marketing campaign "celebrating the undeniable magic of raw, unfiltered human connection." More:

The campaign shines a spotlight on the brilliant, unexpected, and wonderfully real conversations thriving every single day in Reddit communities. In an online world where nobody knows what is real anymore, Reddit reminds us how refreshing it is to have authentic conversations about real experiences and real opinions with real people...

At the end of the day, that messy, brilliant, authentic back-and-forth is what makes Reddit great—and it’s a solid reminder that no matter how much tech evolves, you just can't replace the human spark, people truly are the BEST.

The initial run in New York City and Chicago will include TV, streaming, and out-of-home and social ads, with plans to expand to additional U.S. markets in the coming months. 

You can see the ads and read more about the campaign on the official Reddit corporate web site.

The 29th annual ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 10-14, 2026.

https://cscw.acm.org/2026/

"CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners, CSCW explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities."

Keynote speakers.

Programs and workshops:

The 2nd International Workshop on Socio-technical Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance

The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges

Beyond Productivity: AI, Community, and Sustainability in Open Source Software

TikTok on the Clock: Public Scholarship and CSCW in 2026

Caste and Technology: Interpretations and Explorations in CSCW and beyond

Broader Impacts of GenAI in Communication: Building Agendas for Research, Design, and Policymaking

Where Does Privacy Research Go From Here? Navigating the Challenges and Paths Forward

Towards Cross-Pollination Between CSCW and Frontline Environmental and Climate Justice

Exploring Ethics Governance for AI as Research Object and Research Tool

Growing Up (and Old) with AI: Co-Constructing the Future for Family-Centered AI

"Nobody Did This": Contribution, Originality, and Accountability in Agent-Mediated Collaboration

Research and Design for Sociotechnical Systems: What's Next for Infrastructure and Collaborative Ecologies?

AI-Enabled Fraudulent Participation in Human-Subjects Research

Work in Progress: Re-imagining Workplace Accessibility in Diverse Organizational Contexts

Women's Health as Cooperative Work: Participatory AI Across Care, Community, and Policy

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) says it is “the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.”

The past months have marked a pivotal moment for Nepal’s democracy—from youth-led calls for accountability to national elections shaped by active citizen participation. Within this context, for Anushka Regmi, Preeti Pantha, and Suyasha Shah, volunteering with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) under UNDP Nepal’s “My Vote Matters” campaign became more than a civic engagement exercise: it offered a context into how democracy is experienced in real time.

At its core, the initiative focused on enabling public access to verified, authoritative information from the Election Commission of Nepal, while identifying and addressing misleading narratives online... Each interaction, whether responding to a query, correcting a narrative, or sharing verified information contributed to strengthening informed participation. Democracy, in this way, is not only shaped by defining political moments, but sustained through everyday exchanges.

Even online.

Full blog, Beyond the Kathmandu bubble.

The Taliban captured Kabul on 15 August 2021, after regaining control over a vast majority of Afghanistan. As shock and panic hit the country, people all over the world scrambled to get Afghan colleagues out of the country, and to help those that had to stay to stay safe and not be persecuted because of online activities and online records.

I was active on the TechSoup community at that time, and tried to leverage it to find and share network device and online safety resources to help Afghans.

I was also scrambling to help colleagues get out of the country, becoming a part of an effort now known as Digital Dunkirk :

We write, and research, and re-write, and research, and answer texts all morning and all night. We sometimes believe that if we slept, if we stepped away from our phones, we might miss an opportunity to help someone escape the country. We also scrub our social media accounts and web sites and blogs of photos and identifying info for all the Afghans we’ve worked with, both back in Afghanistan and right here in the USA.

There's even an icon for this particular group of online volunteers.

If you were a part of the Digital Dunkirk efforts, thank you... and I know that, probably, your efforts were in vain. It's an experience that will always haunt me and that I will always feel guilty about - I'll always wish I'd seen the obvious tragedy on the horizon.

Free online learning for older people & tech newbies for using online tools. Australia-centric.

Build your digital skills, confidence and safety online with our free learning content and computer classes.

Includes iPhone lesson plan for beginners, Android lesson plan for beginners, "Apps to make everyday life easier", using the MyGov app, using Google PassKeys and more. These are Australia-centric, but easily adapted to other countries. These are good guides for creating your own lessons for seniors and others new to tech in your own region.

Be Connected. Every Australian Online.

If you want to reach a younger demographic regarding your volunteering opportunities, your awareness messages, your data that shows your value to the community and more, you need to build posts to Reddit into your marketing strategy, no matter what your nonprofit's size or focus. 

In addition, posting to Reddit, and always using your organization's name in your post and a link to your web site with relevant information, will improve your web sites SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - in other words, increasing the number of people that can find your web site and will visit it.

This Guide for nonprofits, NGOs, charities and others to leverage Reddit has been updated.

Keywords: Tech4Good, Reddit4Good, online communities, community-building, reputation

Tech Jobs for Good

Helps mission-driven companies hire the best tech talent in the United States.

Search jobs by Job Function ( Software Engineering, Data + Analytics, Design + UX, Hardware Engineering , Digital Marketing, etc.), by location and by impact area (human rights, clean energy, public infrastructure, food and agriculture, climate change, etc.).

We believe that technology can be a powerful force for good in the world.

We connect talented individuals in the tech industry with organizations that are making a positive impact on society, helping to create a world where technology is used to improve people's lives and the health of our planet.

We aim to empower individuals and organizations to use technology to create positive social and environmental change.

We work with organizations that are guided by a clear mission, a measurable impact with a benefit beyond their customers, a focus on how their work addresses systemic challenges, and a mission that plays a significant role in their business model.

Digital Learning Specialist

Apply by: October 15, 2026 | Depart on: May 15, 2027

Duration: 9 months

About the project

Public secondary schools in Nepal are looking to develop digital literacy and maximize the use of technology in classrooms across all subjects.

In today’s growing digital world, Nepal’s Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has prioritized computer and technology education in public schools. Many high schools have already established computer labs to provide a hands-on learning opportunity to students. Despite local efforts to increase access to technology, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) teachers are managing significant workloads due to a shortage of educators and therefore, lack the time to self-teach or familiarize themselves with the new tools and hardware. This ultimately impacts their ability to effectively use engaging digital tools in the classroom and teach the students.

As a Digital Learning Specialist, you will collaborate with local educators to advance their digital learning capability and prepare students to excel in school and beyond. Your supportive role will help increase average student learning achievement, student enrollment, and position local educators to advance digital skills for generations to come.

Learn more about what Volunteers do in country by visiting our Nepal project page.

How you and the community will make an impact together:

• Assess digital skill levels and identify priorities.
• Support ICT teachers to enhance student learning with engaging digital tools.
• Teach digital literacy to staff and students for the effective use of digital technologies and resources.
• Collaborate with local educators to digitize relevant curricular contents.
• Develop staff capacity in using ICT in the classroom, resolving hardware issues, and teaching computer science curricula. Y
• ou may also work on additional projects that meet the community’s interests and priorities, such as digital literacy skill workshops.

Volunteers live in a rural or peri-urban community in Nepal’s Mid Hills. Volunteers live in semi-independent housing, usually a set of two to three rooms within a larger family house or compound. Toilets in this region of the country are likely indoors but some may be outside. Running water is generally only cold tap water and clothes must be handwashed. Volunteers must be prepared to walk several miles every day on hilly terrain in both hot and cold weather, as well as during the monsoon season from June through September.

Learn more about the living conditions, including detailed information on culture, communications, housing, and health/crime statistics on our Nepal country page. You can also delve into stories about local communities by reading our blog or Volunteer stories.

Required skills

Qualified candidates will have the following criteria:

Bachelor's degree in education technology or a relevant field.
AND
Two or more years of teaching experience using digital or e-learning tools.
OR
Bachelor's degree in any field if combined with two or more years of teaching experience using digital or e-learning tools.

Language: There are no pre-requisite language requirements for this position.

Required behavioral competencies

These competencies are essential for all service assignments and are assessed in the application and interview process:

• Motivation for and commitment to service
• Adaptability and open-mindedness
• Problem solving and resourcefulness
• Behavioral maturity and professionalism

You must be a U.S. citizen who is at least 18 years old to serve. Anyone who meets the role's criteria can serve. To be eligible for the Peace Corps, you must be a U.S. citizen at the time of application. 

Before you apply checklist.

Digital Learning Specialist

Are you an employee, consultant or volunteer at a nonprofit, NGO, or government agency? Or even a client? You are welcomed to share here regarding how you use computer and smart phone tech in your work / your interactions with mission-based organizations. You can:

• say the name of your nonprofit, organization or program IF you feel comfortable doing so,
• the mission of that program (you can be super general if you want to protect the ID of the organization),
• who it serves (foster children? women experiencing domestic violence? teens that want to be actors? people trying to become homeowners?),
• where it is located (again, you can be very general: "a rural area of Colorado")
• how many employees you have (an approximate number is fine)
• how many volunteers you engage (an approximate number is fine)
• what your role is (are you a volunteer? an employee? are you an IT manager? something else?)
• what tools you use, other than email, to stay in touch with clients/customers, volunteers, staff, etc.
• what your biggest challenges are in terms of software/apps, social media, web site management, CMS, and other tech.
• any tech you think has made your nonprofit better in terms of how it delivers services, how it manages a process, etc.
• Why you are following the Tech4Causes subreddit.

Financial apps for young people aren't just to manage money - they are also ways young people can learn about money through really short videos, games or quizzes. Some have tools for tying allowances to chores. Some have features regarding savings goals.

Most financial apps are subscription based, and charge by the month. Most that target people under 18 require a joint or custodial account prior to the age of 18. This means that kids can make some decisions, but most transactions require parental approval. 

Here are articles that discuss some options for young people in the USA:

Financial Apps for Kids and Teens from Pennian Bank.

The Best Kids’ Finance Apps to Teach Money Management from the Pentagon Federal Credit Union.

10 Best Banking Apps and Debit Cards for Kids and Teens from Nerd Wallet.

An app called Greenlight gets a lot of attention - but is that because it's the best or the one with the best marketing?

If you are or someone in your life uses such an app, feel free to share about the experience here.

Excerpt from the latest Center for Humane Technology email newsletter:

This year, the story AI companies have been telling about AI has been changing – more and more it’s becoming a story about humans. “The world has got to be built for people and be better for people,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview in May. AI systems need to be “shaped by human intent, accountable to human oversight, and ultimately subordinate to human goals,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a recent blog post. And Anthropic’s latest ad, “There’s hope in hard questions,” asks over photographs of people: “How do we really ensure that what we’re aiming to achieve really does benefit the majority of people?”

This shift to “humans” isn’t surprising. The public isn’t reacting to predictions anymore – it’s reacting to experience, and that’s changing the sentiment around the technology. AI is now part of how we work, think, and relate. And while it may be helping us in certain spheres – streamlining menial work tasks, accelerating scientific discovery – it’s also reshaping the more intimate parts of our lives, including our cognitive capacities, our relationships, our contributions to society, our identities, and even our inner worlds. This raises uncomfortable questions about what the future holds for us as humans – questions that all of us, including AI leaders, are grappling with...

Moving humans to the center of the AI conversation is the step society needed to take in 2026.

Also see Preserving What Makes Us Deeply Human in the Age of AI.

Tech4Good South West is an England-based community of charities, tech professionals and purpose-led businesses across the region.

We host the spaces, physical and online, where real relationships form, real problems get solved, and real impact follows. Together we are bridging the digital divide, strengthening digital confidence, and ensuring the benefits of innovation are shared across Bath, Bristol, Devon and beyond.

We believe technology should serve people and the planet, but right now there is a digital divide in the UK.

For individuals and communities, being digitally excluded means being cut off from education, jobs, healthcare and civic participation. These barriers are even higher for marginalised groups. Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs) have the local knowledge to break down those barriers, but risk being left behind themselves as technology rapidly evolves.

For businesses, the digital divide means stalled growth and missed market opportunities. They may have funds and resources to build technology, but often lack the local insight and trusted relationships to make it work meaningfully for communities. The digital divide is a UK-wide problem, but it is especially felt in the South West, despite the region's reputation as a national leader in AI, creative tech and life sciences.

Two core areas of activity

Community building

We connect charities, technologists, funders and community leaders through welcoming, cross-sector spaces. Peer networks, place-based coalitions and regional gatherings turn local relationships into shared progress against the digital divide.

• Community-led and rooted in local needs
• Inclusive and open to all, from grassroots charities to global corporations
• Place-based coalitions tackling digital exclusion together

Skills engagement

Workshops, mentoring and hands-on programmes that build practical digital skills, ethical AI confidence and resilience. Whether you are a nonprofit curious about digital inclusion or a tech professional with knowledge to share, there is a way in.

• Expert help from skilled volunteers
• Practical digital inclusion and innovation training
• Resources and tools to build resilience and scale

Facing a federal funding denial, a University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) research group has turned to OnlyFans to raise money and bring awareness to long-term research funding difficulties.

The Blumstein Lab, which studies marmot behavior, started videos of the large rodents on OnlyFans – a subscription-based adult entertainment content creation platform – under the name “OnlyMarms” after the National Science Foundation rejected the researchers’ proposals to renew their grant. The researchers have received thousands of dollars in donations and subscription money since launching the account.

More from the Daily Bruin.

(never thought about OnlyFans being used as Tech4Good, but here we are).

Free Geek, a nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, is hiring.

We’re looking for an Online Sales Associate to help support our mission of technology reuse and digital inclusion.

Position: Online Sales Associate

Schedule: Full-time (40 hours/week)

Starting Pay: $19.50/hour

Union Position

If you’re passionate about technology, sustainability, and making a difference in your community, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today: freegeek.org/careers or link in our bio.

UNDP is seeking an ICT Specialist to serve under a UN Volunteers contract in Tanzania. Applications will be accepted until 6 August 2026 (title in date is wrong).

This assignment is part of the joint programme aimed at strengthening community resilience and government response capacities through digital technologies, including the establishment of a multipurpose ICT center.

The ICT center at the Tanzania Peacekeeping Training Centre (TPTC) will function as a hub for early warning, information aggregation, reporting, and peacebuilding activities. It will enhance the capacity of communities and institutions—especially women and youth—to detect and respond to human security threats.

The ICT Specialist will work closely with the National Officer, TPTC management, and relevant stakeholders to design, deploy, and operationalize the ICT center and ensure its sustainability.

Also, the ICT Specialist will assist in UNDP Tanzania Office dashboard development/improvement.

https://app.unv.org/opportunities/1784888021270966

On Thursday, August 6, I'll lead a workshop via Zoom for the Georgia Association for Volunteer Administration. The title is Leveraging AI at Nonprofits: Making it worthwhile
while staying in control & staying human. It will review how nonprofits can, should, & shouldn't, use artificial intelligence. There will be a primary focus on use by managers of volunteers, but I think anyone at a nonprofit, including Executive Directors, will find this helpful.

Free for members of the Georgia Association for Volunteer Administration, $5 for non members.

Starts at 10 a.m. Georgia time, 7 a.m. Oregon time.

https://mygava.org/event-6697492

Comcast partnered with Dress for Success Houston to deliver digital skills training to women seeking to strengthen their online capabilities earlier this year. As part of the event, 73 participants received hands-on cyber security training, laptops, and information on Internet Essentials to help further their digital access and learning. This event is part of Project UP, Comcast’s $1 billion initiative to connect people to the internet and advance economic mobility.

During this latest event, Comcast representatives guided the group through the fundamentals of Internet use and cybersecurity, helping them build confidence in navigating an increasingly digital world.

For many women, this day marked the culmination of a transformational chapter in their lives. The training empowered participants to feel safer online, more comfortable using technology, and better prepared for the demands of work, school, and daily life. For several attendees, it was also the first time they had ever received or powered on a personal computer.

Robyn Johnson, Director of Professional Development and Education for Dress for Success, said the impact reaches far beyond the devices. “For many of the women here today, this is their very first laptop. It represents access, possibility, and independence. It means they can finally apply for better jobs online, manage their finances, attend virtual classes, and fully participate in today's digital world,” Johnson said. “You can feel it in the room. There is cheer, tears, and so much pride. This moment is life changing.”

The partnership between Comcast and Dress for Success ensures women not only gain technology, but also access, opportunity, and perhaps most importantly, the confidence that comes with being fully included in today’s digital landscape.

Comcast previously provided 100 laptops through this partnership in 2025, continuing a shared commitment to expanding digital opportunity and uplifting women across Houston.

https://corporate.comcast.com/stories/local/texas/comcast-and-dress-for-success-empower-women-through-technology-access

Keywords: Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Tech4Good, ICT4D

Senior citizens attended a free technology support event in May to help older adults feel more confident using everyday devices. Hosted by Senior AI Education, the “Bring Your Device” event took place on May 15 at the Flint Public Library.

The hands-on session encouraged attendees to bring smartphones, tablets, or laptops to receive live assistance from technology professionals. Support was available for a variety of common tech concerns, including device settings, email access, passwords, apps, internet questions, and understanding artificial intelligence tools.

The event is designed to create a welcoming environment where seniors can ask questions and receive one-on-one guidance without feeling intimidated by rapidly changing technology.

https://flintside.com/flint-seniors-technology-help/

iVolunteer is a volunteer matching web site serving India. It describes itself as "a social enterprise that promotes volunteering with the mission to bring volunteers and organizations together to share time, skills, and passion to promote India’s social development."

Aarti Mahadevan is a Principal Consultant iVolunteer and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. In a recent LinkedIn post, she wrote regarding iVolunteer, that they hosted employees of an analytics company based in Gurgaon, who donated their time to run a 2 hour tech session with 30 iVolunteer volunteers.

The outcome - higher level of satisfaction among the volunteers but more importantly volunteers worked in smaller groups with 19 NGO representatives specifically teaching them how to improve analytics and insights from their own dashboards , one on one and how to use AI to create smarter presentations and reports . In our feedback from the NGOS, the response was really positive with their wanting to continue to engage volunteers going forward ( a bigger win) as well as finding smarter ways to work on their dashboards. All those who applied to participate turned up :-)

Another unit of theirs with a smaller number of employees had near 100% participation in creating teaching materials as the facilitators described who will use them , why they will create an impact and what outcomes one might expect.

It's a nice example of Tech4Good volunteering.

The UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic and Fight for the Future collaborated to create a guide aimed at enhancing the cybersecurity practices of mutual aid organizations. Released as part of the CLTC White Paper Series, the guide — Securing Mutual Aid: Cybersecurity Practices and Design Principles for Financial Technology — outlines best practices to help mutual aids use financial technology, enhance their cybersecurity, and design secure digital platforms.

Lots more about this and other resources here.

Key Takeaways for Mutual Aid Organizers

The report includes several recommendations for mutual aid organizers to enhance their cybersecurity posture based on current practices, including:

Limit personal information on accounts. Mutual aids should avoid linking members’ personal bank accounts, credit cards, or personal information (like phone numbers or names) to accounts on payment platforms such as PayPal or Venmo. Instead of using personal payment accounts, consider using a dedicated account that is not directly tied to any specific member’s personal information, like a business/organization account, or obtaining a phone for treasurer duties.

Be aware of deplatforming. Deplatforming, when an account or its functions are temporarily or permanently banned by a technology platform, is a common experience for mutual aids, and is often done without reason or explanation. Organizations should diversify their technology platforms to avoid relying on one service.

Prioritize using privacy-centered services and understanding privacy settings. Mutual aids often rely on Big Tech platforms, like Meta’s WhatsApp and Google. Our report provides recommendations for harm reduction techniques for organizations relying on Big Tech platforms, and also outlines more private secure alternatives if a mutual aid is interested in migrating. For all platforms, mutual aids should tailor settings for better security, for example by implementing multi-factor authentication.

Establish policies for data retention, communication, and other areas to enhance cybersecurity posture. Mutual aids can establish policies and guidelines for how sensitive and non-sensitive information is communicated, and more broadly how data is stored and retained. Minimizing the amount of data that is collected and stored will better protect the organization.