Save the Children International is calling on the world’s largest tech firms to provide expertise to help fight the worst child crisis in decades.
The head of the charity, Janti Soeripto, is pushing the IT industry to help combat child poverty and inequality, during her visit to the World Economic Forum.
She believes existing technology could be repurposed to create new services to help the millions of children left homeless, or without an education, by conflict and climate change.
“Tech firms have a lot of money, and they have a huge innovative capacity. And I say to these guys: ‘I want you to run a hackathon for us, where I give you a problem and you think through a number of ways to resolve it,” Soeripto said.
Hackathons are used by many organisations, including the Guardian, to create new programmes and digital services, with coders brainstorming ideas that will then rapidly be turned into reality.
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