Tech4Good was a series of documentary-style stories I created at Oracle that followed customers who were, quite simply, making their corner a better place, in areas of education, environment, human rights, healthcare, and beyond. The videos focused on the customer’s work and impact, and highlighted the small part Oracle played in helping them get there. I sourced the stories, interviewed the people at the heart of them, wrote the narrative, and directed a professional crew to bring each one to life.
Follow us underground at CERN to hear from the world’s top physicists and witness the incredible Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Housed underground near Geneva, Switzerland, the LHC smashes protons together near the speed of light in a quest to understand how we call got here. This…
At the world’s largest pediatric ICU in India, Dr. Shetty fixes the holes in children’s hearts for free. By having wealthier fee-paying patients offset the cost, Dr. Shetty operates for free on children whose families cannot afford treatment. We followed Dr. Shetty – who was once the personal doctor to Mother Theresa – during his…
Oracle and the Tony Blair Institute are working with governments in developing countries to counter food poverty, using open-source satellite data, AI and advanced analytics to detect and classify crops at scale. Food security is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. As populations grow and climate changes, knowing what’s growing, where, and…
In Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria and across Africa, the non-profit LEAP Africa is working to develop the next generation of African leaders, through leadership programs, financial aid and educational assistance. Two of LEAP’s achievements are Mamamoni: a female-led fin-tech outfit that grants small loans to low-income females, and Ignite Teens: a youth-led organisation…
Smallholder farmers in Kenya are tracking their crops from farm to buyer via a smartphone application built by Anteja, which allows them to see demand, pricing and destination. Using blockchain technology, the application promotes transparency in their market and equally allows end consumers to scan a bar code to view see the journey their avocados,…
In the forests of Norway, scientists are using drones and bespoke scanners configured to backpacks to map the health of trees, plants and soil, to ensure their livelihoods for generations to come. With society placing an ever-growing demand on the world’s natural resources, data gathered from sensor and drone images is uploaded to the cloud…
Keep Sea Blue is a Greek initiative raising awareness of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean. A key part of its work is tracking the journey of plastics recovered from the sea, using blockchain technology to record each each items’ journey as its collected, sorted and recycled into packaging that will most likely end up in…
The World Bee Project works to reverse the decline of bees by partnering with smallholder farmers and local beekeepers to promote things like sustainable planting practices. It’s also using technology to better understand these vital pollinators. Connected devices placed near beehives monitor temperature and sound, and generate data that helps reveal the bees’ behaviour and…
In Sri Lanka, MAS Holdings is the largest apparel manufacturer in Southeast Asia, making textiles and other goods for brands like Nike, Victoria’s Secret and Calvin Klein. Behind the scenes, the company also prides itself on ensuring fair-trade wages and safe working conditions for its thousands of mostly female employees — many of whom are…