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 Editor

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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Using Open Source Data in Human Rights Investigations

Human rights investigations increasingly rely on open source information collected from publicly available sources to identify, document, and verify violations of human rights.
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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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