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Responsible Computing Challenge (2018 - Current): Since 2018, the Responsible Computing Challenge (RCC) has awarded # grants to faculty members to innovate their classroom to … We are currently running in Kenya, India, South Africa, and the United States reaching 400+ faculty and staff and 60,000+ students. | Responsible Computing Challenge (2018 - Current): Since 2018, the Responsible Computing Challenge (RCC) has awarded # grants to faculty members to innovate their classroom to … We are currently running in Kenya, India, South Africa, and the United States reaching 400+ faculty and staff and 60,000+ students. | ||
Funders include: Mellon Foundation (Current), Newmark Philanthropies, Omidyar Network, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Schmidt Futures, United States Agency for International Development | |||
Impacts include: | |||
*In India, Jerit Baiju created WebEase in his RCC class at Marian College, an open-source accessibility widget that helps make websites easier to use for people with disabilities. Since launching in 2025, it’s been loaded over 1.1 million times. | |||
*In Kenya, RCC faculty from four of the eight universities have used the experience and outcomes of the RCC pilot and scaling phases to spearhead university level responsible computing policies such as RC and AI policy at Dedan Kimathi University and Technology that guide how students and staff at the whole institution use and design technologies. | |||
*In the US, RCC students are building social justice tech tools. Adelphi University created a two-course program called “Spatial Justice as a Bridge to Responsible Computing.” In these classes, students create and analyze digital maps to tell stories about community issues, such as the gender wage gap and the burden of high rent prices. | |||
== Africa Compute Initiative == | == Africa Compute Initiative == | ||