Aug 7, 2014 | engageSPARK Platform, Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact, Technology
When I discuss my career goals with people and talk about the things I’m interested in – namely, technology and social justice – the typical response I get is: “So you want to work for an NGO/Non-Profit?” I am a huge fan of numerous non-profits (in fact, engageSPARK...
May 15, 2014 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Social Impact, Uncategorized
The Philippines needs more jobs, and some people are hoping that tech can play a part in the solution. I was packing relief goods in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) when I first began to realize the extent of the problem. My fellow packers were...
Nov 21, 2013 | engageSPARK Platform, SMS, Social Impact, Technology
You work at an international NGO in Kenya that focuses on agriculture. You go out into the field and meet with poor smallholder farmers from whom you’ve gathered 20,000 mobile phone numbers. These farmers all happen to be literate, so you’ve decided to engage with...
Oct 31, 2013 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Market Research, Technology
Building engageSPARK has involved a great deal of research about various subjects. One area that we’ve spent a lot of time analyzing is how to send and receive SMS messages and voice calls throughout the world. We believe that the self-service mobile automation...
Oct 23, 2013 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Market Research
Two weeks ago, our Lead Designer Sunny Yang gave a presentation on user experience design (UX design) techniques and principles to a sold-out crowd in Cebu City, Philippines. TechTalks.ph, a Cebu-based organization that is an “independent community of business,...
Sep 18, 2013 | Announcements, engageSPARK Platform, Social Impact, Uncategorized
In case you’ve been wondering, a lot of things have been happening at Opportunity Labs in the last few months! Our team has been working tirelessly on building, refining and iterating our engageSPARK solution, as we continue to get invaluable internal and external...
