Our Education Statement
Here's how Mightybytes operationalizes education in our business model.
Education
at Mightybytes
Shared learning is a cornerstone of an equitable and more sustainable future. We can’t navigate the challenges ahead without it. Plus, barriers to information access and opportunities drive inequality and widen the digital divide.
Every product, service, and decision at Mightybytes is measured not only by profit but also by the real social and environmental change it creates. The results of this measurement guide how we grow, reinvest, and share value with all our stakeholders.
If we want a better future, we need to dare to imagine better means of education—a metaphorical forest school that empowers us to break out of the neat rows we have been planted in and rewild our minds. An education that makes our minds more creative, abundant, and resilient.
— Tom Greenwood, Overton’s Garden
Our Commitments
To address educational challenges related to more responsible design and technology use, Mightybytes makes the following commitments.
Accessibility
We design inclusive digital solutions that cater to diverse learning needs, ensuring that education is accessible to all.
Sustainability
Sustainability guides operations and financial decisions. We share new practices and ideas in real-time as we learn them ourselves.
Innovation
Using technology responsibly during innovation cycles enhances learning outcomes and creates meaningful educational opportunities (not to mention better products).
Community
Co-creating digital solutions that address real-world educational challenges promotes trust, collaboration, and equitable access to information.
Impact
Business Model
Our company is designed around several impact business models, including one for education. To achieve this, we fold educational components and shared learning opportunities into every project.
Workshops
We offer collaborative, interactive workshops that help clients meet their goals while educating teams on more responsible and sustainable digital practices such as web sustainability, data privacy, security, and inclusive design.
Training
We incorporate training materials into every project to help project stakeholders improve skills and governance and build capacity over time.
Public Speaking
We speak at conferences and events around the world about responsible and more sustainable digital practices in business, AI, and product/service design.
Educational Media
We write books and create educational media such as webinars and classes covering a variety of impact, design, and technology-related topics.
Education Theory of Change
Want to learn more about our education impact business model?
What This Means
For You
Folding educational initiatives into how we deliver value brings a variety of benefits to organizations we work with.
Speed-to-Value
By coupling education with prioritization cycles on projects, we’re often able to reduce production timelines for faster launches.
Information Access
We lower barriers to access by making important content publicly available via our blog, in free webinars, and via other channels.
Sustainability
An ongoing commitment to continuous education and improvement also drives long-term sustainability.
Risk
By folding accessibility, sustainability, and responsible digital practices into projects, client organizations reduce risk.
Resilience
By improving governance through education, client teams strengthen organizational resilience to better navigate disruption.
Resources
Educating project stakeholders also supports using less material resources over time as teams improve governance and capacity.
Creating Collective Impact
As co-authors of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Sustainability Guidelines, we have contributed to an educational roadmap to help you find digital success while supporting global impact frameworks like the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Standards
Alignment
Mightybytes’ education initiatives align with new B Corp standards for certification and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals in the following ways.
U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
We support the following U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through this work.
- SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being
- SDG 4: Quality Education
- SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG 13: Climate Action
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
B Corp Standards
We target compliance in all impact areas of new B Corp certification standards for a company of our size. An ongoing commitment to continuous improvement is baked into these new standards.
Using Our Business for Good
As a Certified B Corp, Mightybytes measures our success not only by profit, but also by the social, economic, and environmental impact of our work.
Our B Corp Impact Hub describes the company’s educational commitments and enables real-time reporting on progress against goals.
Responsible
Technology
By aligning our work with an impact‑focused business model, Mightybytes creates opportunities to improve skills and capacity for our stakeholders. This is critical if we want design and technology to solve society’s problems rather than create them.
A Responsible Tech Advocacy Toolkit
Use this educational toolkit to build partnerships and support more responsible tech advocacy within your organization.
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