Where technology and social work meet

Technology for Social Good

The overarching principle behind everything else on this page: technology gets adopted because it expands what a social worker or institution can actually do for the people they serve — not because it's new. Where a tool doesn't clear that bar, GASWT doesn't recommend it.

AI for Social Work

AI already has practical uses in the field today — drafting case notes, real-time translation in multilingual casework, triaging incoming referrals, cutting the administrative load that keeps practitioners from direct client time. GASWT's research tracks which of these uses actually hold up in practice, not just in a vendor's pitch.

Responsible AI

GASWT runs a dedicated campaign on this — the standards we're asking institutions and vendors to meet before AI touches a decision that affects someone's access to care or protection.

Digital Transformation

Helping social-service organizations modernize case-management systems, data infrastructure and referral pathways — without the human relationship at the center of the work getting lost in the migration.

Assistive Technology

Communication devices, mobility technology and adaptive software that increase independence for people with disabilities. Social workers are often the connective link between a person and the assistive technology that could change their day-to-day life — GASWT works to make that link stronger.

Digital Accessibility

GASWT's own digital services and the tools we recommend to partners are built to be usable by people with visual, auditory, motor and cognitive disabilities — not accessible as an afterthought once the rest of a product is finished.

Technology Innovation

GASWT incubates and pilots new approaches at a small scale before recommending them more broadly — testing what actually works in real social-service settings rather than promoting whatever's newest.

Digital Safety & Privacy

Protecting the people social workers serve online — secure reporting channels for survivors of abuse, data protection for case records, and pushing back on surveillance tools that put already-vulnerable people at further risk.