SOC: Lesson - Apps for Social Good

Image: a young person uses their smartphone.Apps for Social Good

Apps allow you to engage and interact with your computers in various ways. Some apps are used for business purposes like banking apps, while others may be used for health and wellness, security, educational training, and entertainment like music and game apps.

Apps for social good are created and used to bring about a positive outcome and/or improve a common challenge in society. Think for a moment about possible challenges that we may experience as a community, as a nation, as a global citizen: global warming, affordable clean energy, housing, poverty, pandemics, etc.

Sustainable Development Goals - an example

Look at the image below:

Image: a logo for SDG.

What sorts of causes are represented in the illustration? What sort of goals do you think the creators of this logo were concerned about?

Apps for Social Good Presentation

View the presentation below for more information about Apps for Social Good. Take careful notes on this information as you will be thinking a lot about apps for social good in this module!

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