Do you want to use your skills to change the world but do not know where to start? Here's a curated list of social impact projects to help you out. :-) (smiley face)
- Bahmni - Open Source easy-to-use EMR & hospital system.
- CaronaBoard - (PT-BR) An app that connects drivers with people that can take a lift.
- Data-Gov - (PT-BR) Making government data accessible to developers through an easy to use API
- Falae - (PT-BR) An alternative communication app for people with speech and mobility impairments.
- Miracle – Making it easier to help out people in need.
- Serenata de Amor – Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration.
- Vamos Juntas? – (PT-BR) Bringing women together.
- Transerviços – (PT-BR) Repository of services from/to transsexual people
- HumanDX – a worldwide effort created with and led by the global medical community to build an online system that maps the best steps to help any patient.
- InfoPreta - A brazillian company made by black women that provides IT services such as support and website development.
- AfroPython – (PT-BR) AfroPython is a programming workshop that has aims to encourage black people to be a part of IT, even though it is not made only for black people.
- Black Girls Code - Black Girls CODE is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and do so much more. By reaching out to the community through workshops and after school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities in programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails.
- Datakind – Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity. DataKind, a nonprofit that's devoted to connecting well-meaning data scientists with groups seeking pro-bono help.
- Django Girls – Django Girls organize free Python and Django workshops, create open sourced online tutorials and curate amazing first experiences with technology.
- Preta Lab – (PT-BR) PretaLab is an initiative from Olabi that believes in the role of black and indigenous girls and women in the fields of innovation and technology as a way to reduce the country's social inequalities. Our goal is to make a survey to collect the stories and challenges that we face, making visible these trajectories and encouraging others to consider this universe as a possibility.
- Rails Girls – gives tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas. We do this by providing a great experience on building things and by making technology more approachable.
See CONTRIBUTING for info on how to contribute to this list.