
The Irish Tech News Podcast Supporting tech for good in developing countries, Alessandra Rojas, Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Nov 12, 2020
26:25
We chat with Alessandra Rojas about her work as the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Manager @ Tech4Impact EPFL
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
More about Ale
I am part of the team of EPFL Tech4Impact. The EPFL is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and at Tech4Impact we are focused in how we can use technology for sustainable impact and the UN 2030 agenda. We work with students, researchers, professors, NGOs and corporates to try to build an ecosystem around it.
The GSIV program specifically is part of our efforts to collaborate with NGOs and international bodies in Geneva to further push the developing of technology specifically by supporting Global South initiatives. We actually run a second initiative called Tech4Dev grants in which we pair Global South NGOs with researchers at EPFL to develop impactful technologies.
Developed and managing the new EPFL Changemakers programme! Check it out: https://www.epfl.ch/innovation/startup/students/epfl-changemakers/
