A digital platform that helps people find and hang out with potential future friends.
Chilicorn Fund
Pro bono projects for a slightly better world, by Futurice
Here's a selection of what we've done so far:
A digital platform that helps people find and hang out with potential future friends.
A set of tools supporting Startup Refugees' mission to match asylum seekers to professional opportunities.
A tool for visualizing and making sense of Finland's arms exports.
A tool for understanding people's medicinal habits from discussion forum data. Done in collaboration with Citizen Mindscapes, with data provided by Aller.
Helsinki Pride 2017 website redesign and development, done together with Digitalents.
Feedback tool for children visiting children homes in Finland
App for the SuperAda event done in collaboration with students from Haaga-Helia.
If you are part of a student group, or an instructor to one, and looking for a meaningful project to design or implement with our coaching and mentoring, do get in touch!
Any company can get involved by either contributing financially, or providing individuals with the relevant skills to create digital services or solutions. Get in touch with us and we’ll hook you up.
If you have a problem worth solving or a project that can change the world, but not enough funding to go for it, apply to be in our program. If your project gets selected, it will be completed pro-bono and you can then take it further.
The Chilicorn Fund's aim is to work with non-profits to create meaningful and impactful digital services. The expertise and time investment comes from the Futurice team, student groups and partner companies. The projects we select must generate value to the individuals working on the project, the supporting companies, and society. All three.
Is the project making the world better? How much better?
This is the most important measure to consider and it gets double the weight of the others.
Is the outcome replicable for other areas and for similar problems? When we share the results as open source, can that bring extra value to the world?
How much relevant learning do participants get out of this project? Are they learning new technologies or better ways of doing things? Can they apply what they learn in future projects?
Can the project be done together with groups of students, under our guidance? Will they learn relevant things while working on it?
Can our partners contribute to this project either financially, by providing people into the project team, or perhaps by some other means?
Could Futurice and any sponsoring partners get well-deserved publicity for doing this project pro bono? Will we be proud of it?
When we open applications for the Chilicorn Fund, organisations and institutions can submit their project using a web form provided by us. We will go through the applications and make inquiries, if we find some relevant information missing. Please familiarise yourself with our application criteria before submitting your project!
We apply our criteria to find several projects that seem the most promising to us. If we find the project not applicable, we will let you know why we think so. In some cases we may politely suggest some changes, to make it more applicable.
The projects we consider both worthwhile and having an acceptable risk to reward ratio we will invite to a prestudy. In a period of several weeks we will have multiple discussions with you where we refine the concept, consider technology, estimate risks, plan the project and schedule.
It is possible that some projects don't pass the pre-study phase, due to low feasability or unforseen risks for example. At the end of the prestudy we make a final selection and announce which projects will move forward.
For the projects that pass the prestudy phase with mutual acceptance by all the relevant parties, on we go with the design and implementation!
