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.
New!
Read our new research report on open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico
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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. Since then, Hubbers have helped more than 15 social sector organizations address these challenges through short-term virtual volunteering projects.
Read more on our Insights pageEngagements with the United Nations
From supporting the WHO in their COVID-19 work, to helping launch the first Open Source Programme Office in the United Nations (UN), to strengthening digital public goods, GitHub Tech for Social Good has supported more than ten specialized agencies, funds, and programmes of the UN.
Watch the WHO OSPO talk
Open Source Research
We have published two research reports on open source software (OSS). Read our latest report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Our first report on Open Source Software in the Social Sector is on our Insights page.
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Engagement Opportunities
Latest insights
Skills-Based Volunteering case study - Digital Development Compass with the United Nations Development Programme
How UNDP and GitHub developed a Digital Development Compass for United Nations agencies and countries
Now available! Spanish and Arabic versions of our OSS report.
The Arabic and Spanish versions of our Open Source Software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico report are now available!
GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
Read about the side-events in which GitHub hosted and/or participated at UNGA77.
Open Source for Good Updates
Tech for Social Good runs the Open Source for Good mailing list.
Stay updated on the latest news at the intersection of open source and social good.