bantu - Using Technology to Accelerate Social Impact
This week, We went to the I&E@SOC incubator in ICube building and interviewed Joshua Foong, the co-founder of bantu. bantu is a web management platform targeted at NPOs (Non-Profit Organisations) to help them engage and deploy volunteers at ease. After NPO publish their projects on the website, volunteers can check and sign up for the program they are interested in. bantu has joined I&E program for 1 year 9 months, under the mentorship of Prof Francis YEOH and Prof Lai Kok Fung. 1. H ow do you come up with this idea to found bantu? bantu has four co-founders and we met during the NOC program in the US. One thing that we saw was there are a lot of gaps in the social sector especially in terms of technology. Therefore, we wanted to see how we can bring technology into a social capacity. This is the trigger and we are very active in this. We brought this concept back to Singapore and approached some non-profits. They said, can you help us build a management system. T...