August 10, 2018
Helping the Software Workforce Look More Like America with Girls Who Code
Software.org’s Girls Who Code class graduated yesterday, and we couldn’t be prouder of the work they’ve accomplished this summer. Our class of 23 DC-area high school girls spent the past seven weeks learning coding languages to create websites, program apps, and control robots. We also...
August 01, 2018
Software.org Joins Partnership on AI
The Partnership on AI is a multistakeholder organization that brings together academics, researchers, civil society organizations, and companies to examine questions to better understand AI’s impacts on people and society....
June 21, 2018
Software.org Aims to Inspire Girls to Code
With software jobs expected to grow dramatically in the coming years, efforts to diversify the technology workforce must expand even more quickly today. That’s why Software.org: the BSA Foundation is returning to the classroom this summer to help high school girls from across the Washington...
June 19, 2018
As Software Enhances Manufacturing — and Our Entire Economy — New Focus on Skills Is Needed
The ongoing discussions about the future of work and preparing for the jobs of tomorrow ignores one very important fact: In many places that future has already arrived. Planning for the future is important, but we also need to focus right now on ensuring that...
April 09, 2018
Software.org Celebrates Its First Year
We celebrated our first anniversary this week – and what a year it was. Take a look at all the ways we’re working to educate policymakers and society about software’s impact and prepare the workforce for the future. Reports and Issue Briefs Software.org conducts original...
March 22, 2018
Transforming the World With AI
On Tuesday, Software.org sponsored a Washington Post event called Transformers: Artificial Intelligence. The event convened researchers, technology innovators, and business leaders to explore AI policies, the future of work, and ethical and societal issues related to AI. Among the highlights: Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and...
March 20, 2018
Maximizing the Benefits of AI, From Business and Beyond
AI-based systems already are helping promote incredible economic progress around the world by making business processes faster, seamless, and more efficient. AI-based tools are enabling an unprecedented number of business applications, with algorithmic models, natural language processing, deep learning, cognitive computing, machine learning models, and...
March 01, 2018
Encryption Plays a Key Role in Securing Our Critical Infrastructure
We are surrounded by discussions of the benefits of future technology: smart cities and new services that will ease our commutes and improve our work lives and sensor-laden smart homes that will ease our day-to-day chores through the Internet of Things (IoT). In many ways,...
December 06, 2017
The Reasons Why Michigan and Indiana Win With Software
In late September, Software.org: the BSA Foundation released a study that quantified the economic impact of software throughout the United States. The report tracked state-by-state changes in growth, jobs, and GDP. The good news is that the study finds software is helping grow the economy...
November 17, 2017
Blockchain: Understanding a Software Technology That Will Advance New Solutions
The term “blockchain” – like cloud computing and IoT before it – keeps cropping up in new and different settings, yet few people still truly understand its operations or allure. Blockchain, most often linked to the digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum, serves as the foundation...