Technology for Good
with Jim Fruchterman

Join us for a lunch discussion with Jim Fruchterman, MacArthur Fellow, Skoll Awardee (for Social Entrepreneurship), former Caltech Y Student Leader, and author of Technology for Good: How Nonprofit Leaders Are Using Software and Data to Solve Our Most Pressing Social Problems.

The accepted wisdom in big business is that the only worthy ideas are ones that make a lot of money, preferably billions. But Jim Fruchterman believes there is a different path for technology. What if tech returned to its roots and made people more effective and powerful? What if the benefits of technology came to the 90 percent of humanity traditionally neglected by for-profit companies in favor of immense profits gained by focusing on the richest 10 percent? In Technology for Good, Fruchterman explores that question and delivers a comprehensive how-to for leaders who want to create, expand, join, support, and improve organizations that see building technology as a key element of delivering on their social good mission. (MIT Press)

Caltech Y Student Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lunches are open to any member of the Caltech affiliated community; however, if space becomes an issue, priority will be given to students.  And for those who are interested, Caltech Professor Michael Alvarez will also be speaking at a public event with Fruchterman as part of Caltech's Behind the Book Series (registration suggested) the evening before the SASS lunch, in conjunction with the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP). Views expressed are solely those of the speaker(s).