How tech can help tackle the toughest challenges

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a place where engineers can build technology that will truly make people’s lives better.

There are many ways for software engineers to tackle big challenges. They can work on complex engineering problems that result in a product everyone knows and loves, or spark the next big startup. But there are few places where engineers can build technology that takes on the biggest social challenges like curing disease, improving education or reforming the criminal justice system – technology that will truly make people’s lives better. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is that place.

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