THE INSPIRATION
In 2017 news of malicious hacking around the world was rampant, and David Clark was unsettled by how much power individual rouge developers had to disrupt elections and sew confusion and chaos on such a massive scale. Clark understood for the first time how much potential power and impact developers had.
OPPORTUNITY TO
REPOSITION DEVELOPERS
Clark realized these rogue developers were not representative of the developer community at large and were giving law abiding coders a bad name. The power, reach, and ingenuity these rogue developers possessed made him wonder—what if these skills were used to innovate for good? What if we could change the narrative about developers and create a ground-breaking initiative that celebrated developers, ones who helped solve social issues?
That sparked an idea. With that much creative power working independently, what would happen if a “Justice League for Good” could be created, where millions of creative developers could be inspired to work together for a common purpose, to create software solutions for some of the biggest social challenges of our time. With that inspiration, the multi-year Call for Code Global Initiative was created to tap into the awesome power and potential of the millions of developers around the world by inspiring them to use their skills to become agents of positive change and help people in need.
The Call for Code Global Initiative aims to propel developers on uncharted quests to solve the world’s most challenging problems using innovative technology solutions.