Behind The Book: Jim Fruchterman's "Technology For Good"

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

In collaboration with The Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy, Caltech's Behind The Book series will present MacArthur Fellow and Skoll Awardee (for Social Entrepreneurship) Jim Fruchterman in conversation with Caltech Professor R. Michael Alvarez discussing Frucherman's new book, Technology for Good: How Nonprofit Leaders Are Using Software and Data to Solve Our Most pressing Social Problems.

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Admission is free but reservations are strongly recommended.

Their conversation will cover how nonprofits are looking for a better deal for data to support the work that they are doing for society. Fruchterman is a Caltech alumnus, former rocket engineer and a passionate leader in the social enterprise movement. He is the founder of Benetech, an award-winning tech nonprofit. He also leads Tech Matters, a tech nonprofit that develops open-source software for crisis response and climate adaptation.

Alvarez is professor of political science at Caltech and the co-founder of The Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Science, Society and Public Policy as well as the co-director of the Voting Technology Project, a joint Caltech-MIT initiative.

"The accepted wisdom in big business is that the only worthy ideas make a lot of money, preferably billions. I believe there is a different path for technology. What if tech returned to its roots and made people more effective and powerful? Even bolder, what if the benefits of technology came to the 90 percent of humanity traditionally neglected by for-profit companies in favor of immense profits gained by focusing on the richest 10 percent?"
—Fruchterman

For more information, please contact Michael Alexander by phone at 626-395-4652 or by email at [email protected] or visit the event registration page..

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