Apps Help Red Cross Provide Lifesaving Advice
The American Red Cross develops a series of mobile apps to provide information about first aid and disaster preparedness.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Pop-Art App Teaches People About Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum has built a mobile application that lets anyone create a Pop masterpiece and gain a deeper understanding of how Warhol approached his art.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Text Messages Help Charity Raise Money
Inspiring weekly messages leading up to a marathon kept participants motivated to train and to turn out for the event.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How 10 Leaders Use Technology for Good
Innovative efforts to use technology to improve health care, curb climate change, and help the poor take center stage in Austin, Tex., at the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival’s Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards.
Nonprofits Use Skype to Reach Schools
Skype in the Classroom, a service of the video-call network, is helping nonprofits like the Walden Woods Project share their missions with teachers and students around the world.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
Amanda Quraishi: Fighting Homelessness and Poverty With Social Media
Amanda Quraishi embeds herself with the homeless people her charity serves and chronicles the experience.
Ben Sawyer: Getting Serious About Using Video Games to Solve Problems
Ben Sawyer works to create games that help solve problems in education, health care, national defense, and corporate management.
Rey Faustino: Using Education to Fight Poverty and Unlock Opportunities
Rey Faustino’s nonprofit built an extensive online database of service organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Simeon Oriko: Teaching Africa’s Youths About the Power of Technology
Simeon Oriko teaches digital literacy and also works on projects to make it easier for Kenyans to find schools, health care, and monitor crime trends and election issues.
Elizabeth Davidson and Maurya Couvares: Helping Teenagers Get Tech Skills
The co-founders of Scripted train people with technology skills to work with high-school students in Harlem.
Madhura Bhat: Encouraging Entrepreneurs to Improve Health Care
Madhura Bhat started Health for America to find young people with radical ideas and then pairing them with health-care experts and community leaders.
Arlene Ducao: Mapping Global Hotspots
Arlene Ducao helped found a group that is using infrared technology to help people solve ecological problems.
Rich Schwerdtfeger: Helping People Who Are Blind or Deaf Get Information Online
As chief technology officer of accessibility at IBM Software, Rich Schwerdtfeger works to make it possible for people who can’t see or hear to use the Internet.
Gene Gurkoff: Making Every Mile Matter
As founder of Charity Miles, Gene Gurkoff created an application for mobile phones that helps people raise money for charity when they walk, run, or bike.
Elena Lagoudi: Developing Tools to Document Art and People’s Life Stories in Greece
Elena Lagoudi left her job in London to return to Greece during the financial crisis because she wanted to develop tools to protect cultural treasures.
Social Interest Solutions, a nonprofit technology group, is testing a mobile version of a tool that lets people determine their eligibility and apply for government benefits.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor