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We build and supercharge innovative digital tools to address societal issues
We empower and engage the multidisciplinary techforgood community
We help organisations do more social good using technology
Better In Every Way
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Projects
We brainstorm, build, and supercharge techforgood digital tools to address societal issues.
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We provide hackathons with real techforgood problems and follow through for real outcomes.
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Articles & Tools
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Rovik Jeremiah
January 9, 2021
Perspectives: Eyes in the Sky – Crowdsourced Tagging of Environmental Damage
In many developing countries, industrialization has resulted in major environmental problems resulting in deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and water pollution. Despite environmental regulations and standards becoming increasingly complex in many countries, enforcement of these regulations remains an issue in many…
Gaurav Keerthi
January 11, 2021
Call Home SG
Call Home lets migrant workers make 3G to landline calls for free, with crowdsourced donations.
Rovik Jeremiah
September 19, 2020
Interview: Gillian Tee – Homage
Gillian is the Co-Founder of Homage – an on-demand marketplace that matches caregivers and those who need help; think individuals who have elderly relatives who are ill at home or nursing homes that need extra help when they are short-staffed.…
Testimonials
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[Google] worked with Singaporean nonprofit Better.sg to support a community project called translatefor.sg, which enables medical professionals to communicate with the migrant workers in their care.
Not-for-profit collective Better.sg also launched Mask Go Share, a website that allows people to submit requests for essentials such as masks and hand sanitisers, or search for requests to fulfil.
Profile of Visualaid.sg, and offshoot of Translatefor.sg and a site co-created by one of our members, Jason Leow
“The team set out to transform the ‘binary’ nature of volunteering — that you either sacrifice time as a volunteer or not volunteer at all.”
Tools and ideas in Better.SG’s pipeline include a prototype of a hospital bill calculator for the elderly, and an app that broadcasts missing persons reports on social media.
Better.sg’s inception, [Gaurav] said, stems from a dearth of coordination and support within the tech-for-good community.
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Multidisciplinary volunteers>$100k
Funds raised>20
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Better.sg is a fast-growing non-profit, volunteer-run organisation that drives techforgood in Singapore. We address societal problems with digital tools. We are an inclusive and multidisciplinary team, and our well-structured modular virtual process allows busy talents from non-technical (dreamers, disruptors, do-ers) and technical (designers, developers, data scientists) backgrounds to collaborate to understand social problems, identify areas where tech can help, and build and launch our tools or help other organisations use technology to do good.