Mark Zuckerberg says his approach to create social change is different from most philanthropy

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan spoke about their charity organisation and the mission to cure diseases. It was just recently that the couple had promised to donate $3 billion for this cause. Now, the Chan Zuckerberg initiative has made its first hire or rather believed to have poached Amazon search VP Brian Pinkerton for the position of CTO. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) had recently invested in Indian edutech startup Byju’s . In a blogpost, Zuckerberg announced the new hire, and explained its approach to use engineering to create social change. He said it is different from most philanthropy. Pinkerton will basically build an engineering team to help craete solutions for some of the challenges faced by the society. “Lots of people invest capital and hard work, but when you can also do engineering to build tools to empower people to make changes themselves, that’s when social change can really scale. That’s what we’re doing to help teachers bring personalized learning tools into hundreds of schools. That’s what we’re doing to help scientists build new tools that can help cure, prevent and manage all diseases within our children’s lifetime. Bringing engineering to social change is the basic idea of our work, and one of the unique capabilities we can provide,” he writes. Earlier at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), Chan spoke about the future that everyone wants for their kids and how we can set goals to cure all diseases in ‘our children’s lifetime’. Zuckerberg also pointed out some deadly diseases that lead to causing deaths and said tools will help fight them more quickly. Yes, the tools he was talking about will probably be build under the guidance of Pinkerton who will first build a team to do so. Meanwhile, it is believed that he will invest $600 million in a project called Biohub, which is an independent research center located at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF). This research center will work on developing new tools that will measure and treat disease. Biohub will be led by Joe DeRisi, a professor at the UCSF School of Medicine, and Stephen Quake, a Stanford biophysicist and bioengineer, and will attempt to develop a cell atlas as one of its first projects.