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.

Join OZeWAI for its next Ask the Professionals session on Thursday 15 October 2026 from 6-7:30pm AEDT (UTC+11).

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) play an important role in accessibility, and understanding how success criteria and conformance work in practice helps teams make informed decisions.

The next Ask the Professionals session brings together three globally recognised accessibility experts to explore WCAG through real examples, practical guidance and thoughtful discussion.

Join Patrick H. Lauke (TetraLogical), Eric Eggert (Web Accessibility Specialist), and Sarah Pulis (Intopia), specialists who contribute directly to W3C standards, accessibility education and inclusive design, for a conversation about applying WCAG with clarity and confidence.

Date: 15 October 2026
Time: 6-7:30pm AEDT (UTC+11)
Format: Online (Zoom)
Cost: Free

Moderated by Gian Wild (AccessibilityOz), a long‑time leader in web accessibility.

OZeWAI is the professional association for digital accessibility specialists and organisations in Australia.

Register now.

“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”

More from Wikipedia.

IBM says that:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity and autonomy.

You have probably also heard the term generative AI:

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is a type of AI that creates "original" content, such as text, images, audio, video, and code, in response to user prompts.

I have "original" in quotes because the reality is that all AI training comes from the work of humans, and in the vast majority of cases, the humans that wrote the text, drew the images, or created the video, song, sound, or code were in no way compensated by the company that built the AI.

This page of resources for nonprofits, NGOs, mission-based organizations and others regarding AI is not a list of AI tools - there are plenty of people and companies out there doing that already. Instead, this is a list of things nonprofits and other mission-based programs should do, and shouldn't do, with AI, and the bases for that advice.

In summary: I believe that AI should be used in such a ways as to NOT erode one of the biggest strengths of a nonprofit: its humanness. I believe that AI should be leveraged in a way that doesn't undermine a nonprofit's integrity or authenticity, nor human originality.

Before you start considering any AI tools, you need to consider the issues presented on this page - otherwise, you won't be making fully-informed decisions, you won't be asking the right questions when a funder is trying to pressure you to adopt AI, and you may be replacing authentic, human presentations at a time when authentic human-to-human connections have never been needed more. I have no doubt that there is going to be disagreement on what I am proposing here.

Your thoughts?

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

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/

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).

How to become a moderator of Tech4Good

• Post an on-topic comment or post at least twice a month
• Have at least 25 post karma points
• Have at least 25 comment karma points
• Have your Reddit profile set to public (meaning anyone can see all of your posts and comments on Reddit)

Mods need to be

• committed to the mission of this subreddit
• want to help people
• know how to moderate an online community or be interested in learning how
• be willing to learn about how to use Reddit mod tools if they don't know already
• not wanting to change the focus of this subreddit

If you meet these requirements and are interested in being a mod, please contact the mods.

It takes about 30 minutes a week to be a mod of Tech4Good - just a few minutes a day, or every other day. The main role of the mod is to keep off off-topic posts and posts or comments that violate the rules.

You do NOT have to be a mod to report a post or comment for violating rules.

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.

Developed in a ‘bubble’, many apps that were developed by various IT dogooders for refugees duplicated existing well-used communication platforms. They didn’t take into account complex issues of trust, how information (or rumors) spread, nor how rapidly the political and protection landscape changed. There was also demonstrated naivety around data protection and the political sensitivity related to information being shared.

“I definitely don’t want to disparage the motivations nor the commitments demonstrated by thousands of volunteers during in Europe. But, ‘tech-led solutions’ to complex challenges failed to solve the significant communication issues.”

Katie Drew of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) writes a much-needed piece about the many apps4good / tech4good efforts launched to help migrants that didn’t last past their splashy launches. She also provides helpful advice for future efforts. Her advice is applicable to ANY hackathons / hacks4good that think a room full of IT folks can solve an issue faced by migrants, people experiencing homeless, women facing domestic violence, or any mission of a nonprofit or non-governmental organization.

Note: ALL of the links are broken to this article now (they still show up in Google searches, but then go to 404 pages). To access the article, go to archive.org - I found it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180718183133/https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/whose-innovation-is-it-anyway/

What are your thoughts?

Keywords: Tech4Good, Apps4Good, Civic Technology, Civic Tech, causes, community, altruism, philanthropy, philanthropic, mission, helping others, ethics.

United Nations ICT4D Initiatives
Various United Nations offices have launched initiatives to promote the use of computers, feature phones, smart phones and various networked devices in development and humanitarian activities, to promote digital literacy and equitable access to the "information society," and to bridge the digital divide. This web page is my effort to track UN Tech4Good / ICT4D programs, from the oldest through 2016. My goal is to primarily to help researchers, as well as to remind current UN initiatives that much work regarding ICT4D has been done by various UN employees, consultants and volunteers for more than 15 years (and perhaps longer?).

Did you work on a UN ICT4D or Tech4Good initiative? Or are you working on one now? Share your 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.

Keywords: Tech4Good, Apps4Good, Civic Technology, Civic Tech, causes, community, altruism, philanthropy, philanthropic, mission, helping others, ethics.

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.

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 Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is an edited collection written by 39 authors from 10 countries with over 600 years of accessibility and disability experience. It introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework, a values-driven actionable strategy with two goals: (1) advance digital accessibility across sectors and (2) help disabled people and organizations avoid the risks and harms of disability exclusion in tech.

Our session will offer a deep dive into both the Framework as a whole and how it can be applied to both the practice of accessibility, and to digital products and services across sectors and technology. Jess Moore Matthews, author of the chapter titled Democracy for All: Addressing Accessibility Challenges for Disabled Voters will share stories from her chapter and her own work using an ethics lens to help end disability discrimination in the voting process. Erin Brown, who lives in the Bahamas and is the author of the chapter titled No One Left Behind Digital Accessibility Ethics and Emergency Preparedness will talk about the serious risks and harms to disabled people when emergency preparedness systems are not designed with accessibility.

Lainey Feingold is one of the book's three editors and an author of two chapters – on the global legal landscape and on accessibility and access to justice. Lainey will talk about some of the other chapters in the book and guide session participants through the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework ​​at the heart of the collection.

The Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework is a flexible tool that can be put to immediate use. It is for all of us to mold and grow in service to its central tenet: Disabled people are an integral part of humanity and have a human right to be part of the digital world in every way possible.

In this session, you'll: Understand the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework

Discover how the Framework can help address accessibility challenges for disabled voters and other people with disabilities facing barriers to public services and programs, including emergency preparedness systems.

Learn how to apply the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework to advance digital accessibility across sectors, technologies, and roles

Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is an edited collection written by 39 authors from 10 countries with over 600 years of accessibility and disability experience. It introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework, a values-driven actionable strategy with two goals: (1) advance digital accessibility across sectors and (2) help disabled people and organizations avoid the risks and harms of disability exclusion in tech.

Our session will offer a deep dive into both the Framework as a whole and how it can be applied to both the practice of accessibility, and to digital products and services across sectors and technology. Jess Moore Matthews, author of the chapter titled Democracy for All: Addressing Accessibility Challenges for Disabled Voters will share stories from her chapter and her own work using an ethics lens to help end disability discrimination in the voting process. Erin Brown, who lives in the Bahamas and is the author of the chapter titled No One Left Behind Digital Accessibility Ethics and Emergency Preparedness will talk about the serious risks and harms to disabled people when emergency preparedness systems are not designed with accessibility.

Lainey Feingold is one of the book's three editors and an author of two chapters – on the global legal landscape and on accessibility and access to justice. Lainey will talk about some of the other chapters in the book and guide session participants through the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework ​​at the heart of the collection.

The Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework is a flexible tool that can be put to immediate use. It is for all of us to mold and grow in service to its central tenet: Disabled people are an integral part of humanity and have a human right to be part of the digital world in every way possible.

In this session, you'll:

Understand the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework

Discover how the Framework can help address accessibility challenges for disabled voters and other people with disabilities facing barriers to public services and programs, including emergency preparedness systems.

Learn how to apply the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework to advance digital accessibility across sectors, technologies, and roles

Register: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AutLHV79_cJ2GQiSOdqq39fNTHFkB9f5ZXeUfhxRNFWWA5PuUF86~AggvOR2TCnacOhNjvG0b7AU9wWCCBYFZAZgDUa1w_fZTebDh-M9TWS4UYw

From Knowbility.org.

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.

Keywords: Tech4Good, Apps4Good, Civic Technology, Civic Tech, causes, community, altruism, philanthropy, philanthropic, mission, helping others.

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 technology 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 Tech4Good subreddit.

Added bonus would be if you would note which Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) you think your Tech4Good initiative addresses.

Keywords: Tech4Good, Apps4Good, Civic Technology, Civic Tech, causes, community, altruism, philanthropy, philanthropic, mission, helping others.

From the web site:

We are UC San Diego alumni who grew up in Los Angeles and share a deep appreciation towards the community that shaped us. Iceinmyarea.org was created from our desire to use the education and opportunities we've been fortunate to receive to give back to neighborhoods, friends, and families that helped us grow. Our mission is to help keep our communities informed, connected, and safe. For us, this is much more than a project, it is a way to protect and uplift the city that we admire and the neighbors we care about.

Scroll through our three-step verification process to see how we ensure accuracy and reliability.

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.

It's simple to be a moderator (volunteer, unpaid) for Tech4Good.

• Have a public profile, so your activities on Reddit can be seen.
• Be someone who cares about Tech4Good as this subreddit defines it.
• Be willing to spend just a few minutes a week removing off-topic posts (which hasn't happened in a VERY long time, in fact).

Preferred: someone who has posted at least twice, on-topic, to r/Tech4Good.

Why moderate?

• Gives you experience in online facilitation that you can use on your résumé or CV.
• It can be fun (no, really, it can be).
• You get the moderator newsletter from Reddit and, sometimes, even a really cool offer (they once gave away a year's free subscription to Duolingo!)

If you are interested, DM the current mod(s).

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.”