Deep Datta

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Benetech Partners with Kapor Center and Lawyers’ Committee to Ensure Election Protection 1 year, 9 months ago

In the summer of 2016, the Washington, D.C.-based Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law asked Benetech to find open source developers to build new technology features for Election Protection, the n […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Benetech’s Code Alliance Connects Communities for Social Impact 2 years, 1 month ago

About a year ago, I joined the Benetech Labs’ team to learn more about the role technology plays in improving people’s lives. Benetech has been actively working in this space since 1989, when Jim Fruchterman fir […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Benetech’s Code Alliance Helps Nonprofits Scale Cutting-Edge Technology Solutions at GoogleServe 2 years, 2 months ago

The first rule of solving real-world problems using technology is to work directly with the communities that know the problem space best. That’s precisely what Benetech’s Code Alliance initiative has done by bri […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Benetech’s Code Alliance Connects Nonprofits and Volunteers at CHI4GOOD’s Day of Service 2 years, 4 months ago

Members of Benetech’s Code Alliance team recently organized the first ever Day of Service at the annual CHI4GOOD conference hosted by the Human-Computer Interaction Special Interest Group of the Association for C […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, More Than a Hackathon – Evolving Social Good 2.0 2 years, 7 months ago

PART I of a II part series

In 2014, Jeff Wishnie from ThoughtWorks wrote about the problems that surround hacking for social good in a blog post called “Why Hackathons Suck (and don’t have to)” (http […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Benetech Joins SanDisk’s Day of Service 2 years, 9 months ago

Last December, Benetech – through its SocialCoding4Good program – was invited to participate in SanDisk’s Day of Service. The event brought together technical employees with two accessibility projects from the D […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Yahoo For Good Asks Tough Questions About Technology’s Role in the Refugee Crisis 2 years, 11 months ago

On Tuesday Nov. 3rd, Grace Chung from Yahoo invited me to speak to a group of Engineers and Technologists for their quarterly “Hack Lunch” – which is meant to be a brainstorming session for quarterly […]

Deep Datta wrote a new post, Tech4Good: A Hackathon That Inspires a Startup To Make an Impact 2 years, 12 months ago

Technology is supposed to save the world right? At the very least, technology allows individuals to reach people in the world that you could never have imagined reaching before. It also gives individuals the power […]