Global charity search engine. Built a working prototype with over 1.000.000 charities
In 2016, using open data and web-scraping, I was able to gather data on charities for multiple countries. Eventually I ran into technical problems scaling up the search engine when it needed to handle over a million charities. When new EU privacy laws emerged, I also started to get doubts about the legality of my approach, since it covered lots of personal data.
I decided to put the project on hold untill I was a better skilled developer and had a partner to take on the legal aspects.
Watch a screencast of the prototype.
At the end of 2019, I started a third iteration, also under the name Charitius.
Create tools that increase understanding by providing context and fresh perspectives. By including diverse human perspectives, the aim is to enable fairness as an integral part of the choices we make when we build our future.