Visit the Request for Proposals: AWS Round 5
“Impact computing reimagines data science
to address society’s biggest challenges.”– Francesca Dominici
Founding Faculty Director, HDSI
Social impact computing harnesses data science and high-performance computing to develop methods, platforms, and datasets that turn complex global challenges into actionable solutions for society.
At this early stage, we are building a roadmap to:
- Advance cross-disciplinary research that deepens understanding of global crises
- Make outputs broadly accessible to scientists, policymakers, NGOs, and industry
- Shape scalable cloud services to better support data science for social and environmental impact
Project Goals
- Ask new questions unconstrained by computing limits
- Unlock causal relationships and actionable insights from complex data
- Build open datasets, platforms, software, and models with real-world utility
- Generate findings that inform policy and practice
Our Model for Impact
With AWS, we are charting a roadmap for high-risk, high-reward research that will evolve as new challenges emerge.
We bring Harvard’s depth of expertise across disciplines; AWS contributes the infrastructure to test ideas at scale.
The result: researchers equipped with resources powerful enough to pursue solutions once out of reach.
This is only the beginning.
