Highlight the role of new technologies and innovative practices in driving social change.
Disability Tech is an exciting and emerging space transforming lives and breaking barriers. To highlight this incredible movement, we’re sharing insights from Pete Horsley, Founder of Remarkable, an organisation at the forefront of Disability Tech innovation.
WSA Australia celebrates local projects that leverage digital solutions that put people and the planet first. Australian social impact makers and digital innovators are invited to showcase their potential on a global stage under the auspices of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Coming up with an idea for a social enterprise is one thing, but breaking through the ideation phase can end up being quite the challenge. To help you move those ideas out of your head and into the real world, here are 5 proven steps for testing a social enterprise idea.
The percentage of women working in technology in Australia is only 28%! How can we change that? Women in Technology, Western Australia (WITWA) has a few ideas…
Addressing the world’s most complex challenges by designing specifically for social impact is a largely untapped market with a continuously increasing demand. However, designing for social impact isn’t simply about creating pretty objects for a good cause or selling rad merchandise and giving a percentage of the proceeds to charity. In its ideal form, designing for social impact is envisioning the impact you want to have for a community or individual, bringing stakeholders into the process, working toward sustainable solutions, measuring the difference you’re making, and sharing your results so that positive impact can spread across the world.
Teaching children, youth, adults and employees everything from maths to appropriate occupational health and safety standards can be tiresome. Tracking progress, writing reports and developing personalised curriculums even more so. Here are some awesome Australian-based educational technology (also known as EdTech or EduTech) startups that are devoted to the development and application of products and services intended to promote education and make things easier for both teachers and students.
Over the past few years, hackathons have taken Australia by storm. Social good hackathons are now springing up, breathing new life into what has traditionally been a commercial concept. Such hackathons present a unique opportunity to expedite potential solutions to a diverse range of social issues – from empowering persons with disabilities to addressing women’s rights and the refugee crisis.
Expanse is a one-day conference which brings together people from a diverse range of professional and non-professional backgrounds who want to use their skills and talents for the ‘good worth doing’ in the world.
