Our Innovation

Benetech Labs is our innovation engine. We work with our communities, partners, and funders to explore new areas of need and to build software prototypes. Only those with the greatest potential for social impact graduate and are brought to scale.

Innovation Spotlights

See what we’re working on in Labs.

Helping Students Learn with Accessible Math

Benetech’s new math editor is exploring ways that students and educators can interact with digital math problems through improved online tools to solve problems, share solutions, and learn by doing.
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Ethical AI: Turning Conflict Data into Actionable Evidence to Promote Justice

AI and machine learning can automate and improve the process of analyzing and making actionable the huge amount of data coming out of conflicts and crises, creating a path to justice that was not previously available.
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Enhancing Digital Security through Gaming

Human rights defenders are dedicated to protecting the world's most vulnerable populations. In order to prevent digital threats, human rights defenders must learn how to identify attacks before they inflict damage.
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Empowering Disability Inclusion with Data

Poverty alleviation is not a top-down process. Through a community-based approach to data collection and analysis, families are charting their own course out of poverty.
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Do you want to solve big social problems using software? We are looking for community members, partners, and funders to help build the next groundbreaking social sector software solution. You can work on scaling an existing Labs prototype or help us identify and build prototypes that address the next big problem.

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