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Previous Media Features
If you are looking for past media articles, here are some links:
- Smart Nation & U 2021 Keynote by DPM Heng: “More encouragingly, many have come forward to contribute their time and energy to this cause. One example is Better.sg, a volunteer-driven non-profit tech collective where people from all backgrounds come together to build digital solutions to address societal issues. This includes mobile games that help youths learn about empathy, and Call Home, which allows our migrant workers to call their loved ones back home for free.”
- Singapore Global Network: “The team set out to transform the ‘binary’ nature of volunteering — that you either sacrifice time as a volunteer or not volunteer at all.”
- Google: [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.
- Channel NewsAsia: Better.sg’s inception, [Gaurav] said, stems from a dearth of coordination and support within the tech-for-good community.
- The New Paper: 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.
- Zaobao: Profile of Visualaid.sg, and offshoot of Translatefor.sg and a site co-created by one of our members, Jason Leow
- GovInsider: 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.
- The Peak: Despite having to deal with so much at work, [Chan Chi Ling] co-founded Better.sg, a non-profit tech for good platform that supercharges organisations with innovative digital tools to do more social good. Since its inception in October 2019, 600 volunteers from different fields have reached out to help. Her current focus is on building the consultancy arm of better.sg to help other nonprofits leverage technology to do things that benefit the largest number of people in the largest possible way.
- Channel NewsAsia Documentary on Climate Change, a Wicked Problem: [36:14] “Better.sg is a non-profit organisation that builds tech products for good. They’ve gathered a team of 20, just for [helping to automate and digitise the process of tracking the carbon footprint of your diet]… The team has created an app called climatediet.sg“
- Channel NewsAsia Commentary: “Better.sg, a volunteer-run non-profit group set up Mask Go Share, a website that connects people with extra masks and hand sanitisers to those who need them. The site also publishes maps of one-bedroom and two-bedroom HDB rental flats so that people who want to help needy households can provide targeted assistance.”
Awards & Prizes
Here are some awards and prizes that our members and projects have received
- Singapore Business Review 2021 Technology Excellence Awards: “Recognising the contribution of a company’s innovative systems in the field of mobile telecommunications, Singapore Business Review’s judges have awarded the Mobile Award for Telecommunications to Better.SG. This was for their Call Home app, a cost-effective 3G solution that allows migrant workers to call their families’ landline phones in their home country. Since the launch in September, Call Home is already hearing from migrant workers, about how they’re less worried about being able to speak with their families because they’re now able to do so for free. Especially considering the challenges isolation can bring, these calls help keep the migrant workers feeling happier and less alone.”
- Singapore Computer Society IT Leaders 2021: “From 2021’s “Pathfinder Category”, we also have Mr Jason Leow, a software developer from the non-profit techforgood Better.sg community. Concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on the Food & Beverage (F&B) industry during the circuit breaker period, Jason developed “Dabao Dash” to match independent delivery riders with hawkers and small-to-medium sized F&B businesses. Jason’s site provided a practical solution for F&B operators to pivot their business models and sustain margins. Ground-up initiatives like Jason’s play an important part in fostering a sense of unity as we collectively overcome the crisis.” – Minister S Iswaran
- MCCY Mission:Unite Hackathon Winner: Better.sg’s Be Somebody project competed with 200 participants and received the top prize of $50,000.
“Glad to see our youths incorporating digital technology in their hackathon projects. Gaurav shared with me an interactive mobile game which creates safe spaces for people to engage in civic discourse. Through this platform, it hopes to build empathy and promote mutual understanding between people of different races and religions.” – President Halimah Yacob
