Tech Matters

11/20/2024

Today is World Children’s Day – and Tech Matters is excited to announce that we’ve developed new state-of-the-art technology to support the important work of child helplines. Through a partnership with Kids Help Phone, Canada’s national youth mental health helpline, we have integrated new advancements for Aselo, our call center platform co-created with child helplines. These tech advancements will support counselors in Canada and at helplines around the globe, thanks to open source software! ’sDay2024

This partnership will revolutionize and modernize helpline services for children in crisis in Canada and around the world.

05/12/2023

And, this week we launched our new local climate adaptation platform, Terraso, on the occasion of the Kenyan Landscape Coalition meeting at Lake Naivasha.

Terraso’s free resources provide communities/landscape leaders with the tech support to address the impacts of climate change at the local level – with data management tools, interactive maps, visualization tools, story-telling, and other features to develop strategies, inform consumers and local community members, and request funding for community-led climate action. We already have users in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Terraso is the tech component of 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People – a global collaboration convened by EcoAgriculture Partners, and co-led with Rainforest Alliance, Commonland, Conservation International, the United Nations Development Programme - UNDP, and Tech Matters.

Terraso was developed with support from the Cisco Foundation, EcoAg (with funding from the Laudes Foundation) Hitz Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Rainforest Alliance (with funding from the IKEA Foundation), and Schmidt Futures. Thanks for the support to get to this moment!

Read more at terraso.org/launch

Landscape leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America informed the design, development May 11, 2023 – Tech Matters, a tech-for-good nonprofit organization focused on bringing the power of tech to so…

05/12/2023

Happy to announce that Tech Matters is now an independent 501c3 charity in the U.S., after being initially fiscally sponsored by my former nonprofit, Benetech. We celebrated this at the recent The Skoll World Forum in Oxford. Thanks to Skoll and all of our cool donors, who have pitched in more than $10M to get us to this milestone!

Tech Matters, a tech-for-good organization focused on bringing the power of tech to social change leaders, is now a new independent nonprofit

06/06/2022

Tech Matters is happy to be a co-organizer of the Forests and Technology Forum alongside Reforestamos México, A. C.
and Centro México Digital, coming up later this month via Zoom!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Foro Bosques y Tecnología 2022 / Forests and Technology Forum 2022. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

05/10/2021

The team at Tech Matters is excited about the launch of our first platform for the crisis response field, Aselo!

04/22/2021

Happy ! Today is a great reminder that we all need to promote sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems. With that in mind we’d like to share our new project, http://Terraso.org.

The Terraso platform supports locally-led landscape collaborations with mobile-first tools to drive economic and ecological sustainability

04/14/2021

Introducing Aselo, a modern contact center platform that strengthens the child helpline movement!

Initiated w/ One Family Foundation, other major supporters are Child Helpline International, End Violence Against Children, Twilio, Schmidt Futures, Facebook, The Jenesis Group.

➡️ https://bit.ly/NewAseloPlatform

01/22/2021

We're now starting to talk about our Terraso platform, which is part of an extremely ambitious climate change adaptation initiative called 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People. Our goal is to get local leaders around the world the tools, knowledge, support and financing to build the sustainable economies of the coming decades. And, we're hiring!

https://techmatters.org/terraso-simcity-for-the-real-world/

08/05/2020

Aselo is the new name of our child helpline tech platform, built in partnership with Child Helpline International. Our goal is to see helpline counselors get the tools they need to help 100,000,000 kids!

In late 2018, Tech Matters began working with Child Helpline International (CHI), a global network of more than 160 member helplines located in nearly 140 countries.

04/02/2020

The Tech Matters launch story has just been broken by Ned Desmond, head of TechCrunch! "Jim Fruchterman raises $1.7M for Tech Matters, a new effort to help nonprofits do tech better" https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/02/jim-fruchterman-raises-1-7m-for-tech-matters-a-new-effort-to-help-nonprofits-do-tech-better/

Social entrepreneurship pioneer Jim Fruchterman has launched a new nonprofit, Tech Matters, with $1.7 million in backing from corporate and foundation sources, including Twilio, Okta, Working Capital, Facebook and Schmidt Futures. Tech Matters is Fruchterman’s new vehicle to address what he sees a...

09/05/2019

Welcome to the new Tech Matters nonprofit page. We are a group of Silicon Valley tech people dedicated to seeing tech serve all of humanity, not just the richest 5%.