6. Finding Landmines with Computers
The third session you could have chosen at SXSW2019 was in The Line, a hotel on the river, next to the most famous bridge in Texas (more about that later). If you were interested in the Social Impact strand of the conference you would have gone there a lot. It's kind of uncorporate, a bit hip, if you like that kind of thing. It's 5 minutes from the back door of the convention centre and 10 minutes from the front. That's how big the ACC is.
Session 3 was by the amazing Jake Porwell, founder and executive director of Datakind. Datakind is a non-profit that links computing and data professionals and experts with social impact projects that could benefit from high tech special sauce. If you're a techie who wants to have an impact, it's for you.
Jake talked about some of the projects Datakind has been involved in, including processing data to find landmines, to match children with foster families, to analyse patterns of police brutality, but they do dozens more things. You can see it all at https://www.datakind.org Datakind is one of the prime examples of 'Tech for good' that you could find throughout the conference.
'Using data science for the good of humanity,' is how Jake describes Datakind. 'Like doctors without borders for data geeks.'
How cool is that? If you're a data geek, and, like me, you've always been a bit jealous of the whole DWB thing, give them a shot, make the world a better place.
Session 3 was by the amazing Jake Porwell, founder and executive director of Datakind. Datakind is a non-profit that links computing and data professionals and experts with social impact projects that could benefit from high tech special sauce. If you're a techie who wants to have an impact, it's for you.
Jake talked about some of the projects Datakind has been involved in, including processing data to find landmines, to match children with foster families, to analyse patterns of police brutality, but they do dozens more things. You can see it all at https://www.datakind.org Datakind is one of the prime examples of 'Tech for good' that you could find throughout the conference.
'Using data science for the good of humanity,' is how Jake describes Datakind. 'Like doctors without borders for data geeks.'
How cool is that? If you're a data geek, and, like me, you've always been a bit jealous of the whole DWB thing, give them a shot, make the world a better place.
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