<A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and Women at the Table launched the The Technology We Need project with a problem-solving approach, focused on how technology can measurably and positively impact social problems, improve quality of life, correct for historic exclusion, and address more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

The goal is to create technology and the methodology to use it across the Global South, ensuring that no one is left behind. The main idea is that we all thrive leveraging technology’s full power to positively transform lives at scale, developed by those who need it most.

The Tech We Need can be broken down into the following components and principles:

1. Women community leaders + youth leaders convene +  mixed-methods methodology to define problems + solutions.
2. Working with local university partners, multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder local and international teams, that mobilize social scientists and technologists.
3. Needs-based, rights-based technology solutions are co-created, prototyped and piloted.
4. Women + Girl Community Leaders lead, own, design, and  maintain their solution to their problem. 

First sites 2021: The Technology We Need pilot was launched this year in two Latin American sites: in Erizo Juan Santamaria, Costa Rica (in partnership with Tecnológico de Costa Rica) with women and girls leaders in the settlement, and in Jalisco, Mexico (in partnership with the Tecnológico de Monterrey), which focuses on a coalition of local women workers in the tech maquila industry.