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title: "Skills-based volunteering for the AI era: Inside Cisco’s first Tech for Social Good Hackathon"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/skills-based-volunteering-for-the-ai-era-inside-cisco-s-first-tech-for-social-good-hackathon-2zgkhndrl
source_url: https://blogs.cisco.com/our-corporate-purpose/skills-based-volunteering-for-the-ai-era-inside-ciscos-first-tech-for-social-good-hackathon
type: article
source: "Cisco"
published: 2026-05-14T21:02:44.407Z
updated: 2026-05-14T21:03:06.255Z
tags: ["ai", "cisco", "ethical-ai", "hackathon"]
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# Skills-based volunteering for the AI era: Inside Cisco’s first Tech for Social Good Hackathon

**[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Cisco held its first Tech for Social Good Hackathon in early 2026, mobilizing over 160 engineers across 27 teams to build AI-powered tools for seven nonprofit partners focused on climate resilience and economic opportunity. Teams tackled real operational problems — from automating handwritten document verification for a reforestation program in India to building donor prospect platforms — with an emphasis on ethical, human-centered design. Nonprofits reported that the solutions were deployable and sparked broader conversations about workflow automation. Cisco frames skills-based volunteering as a scalable social impact model, with plans to expand the program into Crisis Response and Education sectors.

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