Tech for Social Good
Tech for Social Good
Ongoing projects starting in AY26/27
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Bandung Builders
Bandung Builders
Karasa Koneksi
Karasa is a creative organisation in Bandung, Indonesia, led by our community partners Andi Abdulqodir and Arum Kartikaningbudi. It is situated in RW02, a neighbourhood community they are currently part of. Both of them have developed numerous creative, youth-led and community initiatives, but their activities are currently documented across multiple social media channels, photographs and presentation materials. Our project seeks to strengthen their visibility while preserving their work in a more accessible and sustainable form. Our main initiative is to co-develop two websites: one showcasing Karasa’s creative work and facilitating collaborations, and another representing RW02’s initiatives and opportunities for community and youth involvement (both locally and internationally). The websites will also serve as digital archives of past and future activities, stories and milestones. Furthermore, community members can contribute to the content and how their community is represented, while our partners will be equipped with the skills to update and manage the websites, with continued support where needed. Through these platforms, we aim to improve public awareness, attract youth volunteers, facilitate new partnerships, and strengthen long-term documentation. Impact will be evaluated through website engagement, volunteer and collaboration enquiries, community feedback on representation, and the community’s ability to maintain the platforms.Project Country: IndonesiaProject Supervisor: Dr Kiven StrohmGroup Ref: 26ADKS03RKarasa Koneksi
Project Titan
Project Titan
Team Titan
At the National Elephant Institute (NEI) in Lampang, Thailand, veterinarians and mahouts lack a way to continuously monitor captive elephants’ activity and health, especially overnight, since elephants and mahouts rest in separate locations within the village. This data gap leaves early signs of illness undetected and creates a diagnostic blind spot when elephants die unexpectedly. The lack of quantitative data also prevents them from establishing baselines for elephants’ normal activity and rest. To address this, our team aims to design a portable and weatherproof health monitoring device strapped to an elephant’s front feet to track its step count, skin temperature, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels, paired with a dashboard for vets to view and data. We plan to develop and test a functional step-counting prototype on up to 20 elephants for accuracy and durability before scaling deployment to NEI’s captive population of 50 Asian elephants. Working closely with vets, mahouts and Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Mechanical Engineering, we aim to ensure the device is safe, comfortable, and minimally invasive for the elephants. We hope this project will give NEI’s veterinary team continuous, real-time insight individual elephant health, enable more effective medical interventions, and potentially contribute population-level data toward preventive care and animal welfare research for captive Asian elephants across Thailand.Project Country: ThailandProject Supervisor: A/P Peter VailGroup Ref: 26CCPV02RTeam Titan
Digital Philanthropy
Digital Philanthropy
Py7
Small non-IPC charities in Singapore often struggle to gain public trust and visibility because they lack institutional recognition and established presence on digital platforms. Meanwhile, manpower and funding constraints translate to limited capacity to market their campaigns, demonstrate their community impacts, or regularly engage with donors to sustain long-term contribution. As a result, meaningful work in smaller communities and for smaller causes tend to be neglected. To address the above problems, this project proposes an AI agent that serves as a marketer for small charities whose marketing capacity is constrained by limited manpower, resources, and digital visibility. Using community stories together with quantitative evidence, the agent can transform their impact into appealing campaigns and living impact reports. While highlighting community outcomes and showing donors the impact of their contributions, it is important that the dignity of beneficiaries remains protected. Together with a fairer campaign discovery page on the Give.Asia website, the project aims to improve the visibility of small charities, reduce their administrative burden, and build more sustainable partnerships between donors and charities. This allows small charities to dedicate more time and effort to supporting niche but nevertheless critical causes in less visible communities.Project Country: SingaporeProject Supervisor: Dr Lim Chee HanGroup Ref: 26STCH01Py7
ExtraHand
ExtraHand
Team ExtraHand
Our project: ExtraHand is an AI agent made for charities and social enterprises under the Digital Philanthropy track. We aim to work with the College’s Digital Philanthropy Lab (DPL) and the Centre for Computing For Social Good (CCSGP) to help GIVE.asia and its partner charities with their internal processes. At this early stage, we envision our AI agent supporting small charities in two possible roles. First, the agent could provide marketing support by helping charities translate stories and evidence of their offline work into accessible digital campaigns and impact reports. This could allow donors to better understand how these charities operate and the impact of their contributions. Second, the agent could support research by gathering publicly available information about relevant donor segments, helping charities make more informed decisions when designing their activities and outreach campaigns.Project Country: SingaporeProject Supervisor: Dr Lim Chee HanGroup Ref: 26STCH02Team ExtraHand
AACtive Warriors
AACtive Warriors
Block Watch
In many HDB communities across Singapore, stay-at-home seniors who are socially isolated remain largely invisible to the Active Ageing Centres (AACs) designed to support them. With limited manpower — often just four staff serving catchments of over two thousand seniors — AACs struggle to maintain regular contact with those who never walk through their doors. Conditions can deteriorate between infrequent befriending visits, and no one knows until something goes wrong.To address this, our project is partnering with NTUC Health's Active Ageing Centre to develop a community-led neighbourhood check-in system, supported by lightweight digital infrastructure. We aim to mobilise vetted neighbours living in the same block as isolated seniors to conduct brief, regular check-ins, while building a simple digital tool — a WhatsApp-based chatbot for volunteers and a web dashboard for staff — to handle matching, outcome logging, and escalation so the AAC sees only cases needing attention. We plan to pilot the system in one block with 3–4 volunteer neighbours covering 1–2 seniors each over approximately six weeks, beginning with paper-based processes before introducing the digital layer. We are currently joining the AAC's existing door-knocking sessions to ground our design in real practice. We hope the project will give isolated seniors more frequent human contact, surface early signs of decline sooner, and offer the AAC a sustainable, tech-enabled model for extending its reach into the community.Project Country: SingaporeProject Supervisor: Dr May LimGroup Ref: 26STMY01Block Watch
Project KopiPlay
Project KopiPlay
KopiPlay
Spent coffee grounds (“SCGs”) have many uses and should not go to waste, but there is a lack of an accessible, coordinated system to redirect SCGs towards upcycling efforts. Having identified this gap, our project aims to create a sustainable system of SCG upcycling in a local neighbourhood in Singapore. We plan to collaborate with Koficlay, a social enterprise which turns SCG into a coffee clay material that can be used to make crafts such as keychains. Koficlay aims to use its coffee clay to make educational clay kits for primary and secondary school students to engage in creative, sensory play. These kits are to be used for Koficlay’s craft workshops and sold as a separate product. We aim to collect SCGs from cafes, convert the SCGs to coffee clay with the help of Koficlay, and assemble the educational kits with the help of partners like MINDS and Community Centres. This allows for SCGs to be upcycled while also boosting Koficlay’s environmental and social impact through the educational kits, and spreading the same impacts across the neighbourhood. Project Country: SingaporeProject Supervisor: Dr May LimGroup Ref: 26STMY02KopiPlay
Matched Faster, Loved Longer: Automating Dog Adoption for Paws for Cause
Matched Faster, Loved Longer: Automating Dog Adoption for Paws for Cause
We Hug Dogs
Our partner, Paws for Cause (PFC), is a Singapore-based rescue organisation that rehomes dogs from South Korean shelters. Currently, their workflows are mostly manual, from screening enquiries across multiple social media platforms to compiling dog and adopter information. The process leading up to the adoption matching decision is slow and disorganised, partly due to the lack of manpower, since PFC is mainly run by its founder, Suzy. Consequently, some potential adopters (PAs) face delayed replies throughout the adoption process, causing some to disengage before completing it and turn to pet shops instead.Our project addresses this by developing a centralised database and Customer Relation Manager (CRM) system that systematically tracks dog and adopter information. Subsequently, algorithms or learning-based models will be used to suggest dogs to owners based on their preferences, increasing the rate of adoptions and improving the accuracy of matches. This reduces the administrative burden on Suzy, freeing her to focus on assessing PAs' suitability and intentions, which cannot be captured through a questionnaire alone.Ultimately, we aim to improve the efficiency of the adoption process, enabling PAs to receive timely, accurate information, while giving them a wider variety of dogs to choose from compared to typical Singapore shelters.Project Country: SingaporeProject Supervisor: Dr Michelle LeeGroup Ref: 26STML02We Hug Dogs
A Voyage on Seaweed
A Voyage on Seaweed
Ice Ice Babies
In Nusa Lembongan, seaweed farming is a longstanding livelihood and an important part of the community’s heritage. However, the industry faces an uncertain future as younger generations increasingly move towards tourism, while poor farming yields make seaweed cultivation less attractive. A major contributor is Ice-Ice Disease (IID), which damages seaweed, reduces harvest quality and quantity, and leaves farmers with reactive methods of managing outbreaks.To support the sustainability of seaweed farming, our project, in partnership with the Coral Triangle Center (CTC), will work with Nusa Lembongan’s seaweed farmers, our intended beneficiaries, to develop a low-cost environmental monitoring system that measures key water factors. By collecting and analysing these data points, the system will identify conditions associated with a higher risk of IID. We will prototype and field-test the system, deploy monitoring points, and develop accessible alerts and visualisations to help farmers take preventive actions. We will also explore a complementary fermented mangrove-leaf treatment to help mitigate IID. We hope to reduce IID-related crop losses, improve farming productivity and strengthen farmers’ ability to monitor and respond to changing conditions. We also aim to strengthen confidence in seaweed farming and contribute to its long-term sustainability as a viable livelihood for future generations.Project Country: SingaporeProject Supervisor: Ms Sam Shu QinGroup Ref: 26STSQ01RIce Ice Babies
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