Tech for Palestine

Who we are

Tech for Palestine is a project incubator focused squarely on having impact, joined by thousands of founders, engineers, product marketers, community builders, investors, and other tech folks working towards Palestinian freedom.

What started as a collection of community projects has grown into a unified collective of volunteers that mentors, supports, and builds community via tech in support of a free Palestine. We use our skills, networks, and professional experiences to end the dehumanization of Palestinians, support projects that empower Palestinians globally, and give a voice to those who courageously choose to speak up.

We believe that:

• We can build a better society, including a sovereign Palestine and a tech industry that enables equal human rights and acts as a vehicle for positive systemic change.
• We can leverage technology, processes, and experiences to maximize our impact and effect change through our resources, networks, and expertise.

What we do - We empower a global community of skilled tech professionals to unite in their unwavering support of Palestine so that we can:

• Disrupt conventional narratives
• Capture systems of power
• Accelerate pro-Palestinian organizing and public awareness efforts, both online and off

What we want

• A more ethical tech industry that works to abolish the conditions for authoritarianism, surveillance, occupation, and apartheid in favor of those that promote justice, equality, and human rights.
• To draw on decades of pro-Palestinian advocacy while building the T4P community. We humbly learn from the wider community and contribute to it in aim of the main goal of liberation for Palestine.
• To be a catalyst for the reformed tech industry, aimed at abolishing apartheid and promoting human empowerment and development.

How we work

• We connect project leaders to communities of volunteers
• We mentor, provide office hours, and support start-up projects aimed at ending apartheid, minimizing media bias, encouraging boycotts, and more
• We create a community of pro-Palestinian techies to get involved in causes they believe in and help Palestinians get hired

Our founder, Paul Biggar, is a tech founder and software engineer. He founded Tech For Palestine, CircleCI and Darklang.

• Read why Paul couldn't sleep - the post that started Tech for Palestine.