Digital Divide Data (DDD) is an international New York non-profit aiming to use technology and digital skills to bridge the divide between economically and socially marginalised youth and employment opportunities that lead to a sustainable and viable future. Recognised as a pioneer in impact-based outsourcing, DDD has trained and supported over 6,000 youth in Kenya, Cambodia, and Laos over the past 10 years, increasing their lifetime earnings by a projected total of more than US$350m.

To fund its social programs, DDD's 1,500 person in-house annotation team (based in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya) provides commercial and market competitive data labelling and annotation services to create training data for computer vision applications. DDD’s clients include market leaders and innovators in Autonomous Vehicles (ADAS), Geospatial, Agtech, Robotics, and Ecommerce/retail.

DDD is headquartered in New York and is the largest technology-related social impact employer in Cambodia and Laos. Cisco, Ikea, Amazon, and Elea Foundation are some of DDD’s impact partners and investors.

The mission of the Technology Advisory Board is to accelerate the creation of positive social impact by providing executive direction and guidance to the DDD President in growth related areas for DDD’s Data Labelling and Annotation business. This guidance will include, but not be limited to inputs on strategy, business introductions, opportunity identification, and solutions.

The appointment for this role is to sit on DDD's Advisory Board, but there is the possibility for a successful candidate from this search to sit on the Corporate Board as well.

As part of measures to improve governance and enhance subject matter expertise the Board, DDD is looking for new Advisory Board members with experience in its target verticals of autonomous vehicles (ADAS), geospatial, agtech, robotics, and e-commerce / retail.

These individuals will have relevant experience in building, managing, scaling, or selling products and services that use computer vision and NLP technologies in the aforementioned verticals. Some profiles and skill sets that would be attractive to DDD include product management, machine learning operations, CTO, ML engineering, and computer vision scientist.

Technology Advisory Board members contribute in the following manner:

1. Advocate for DDD in your circle of influence and use a professional network for business introductions. It is expected that each member will make at least five qualified introductions in a 12-month period which would lead to business growth for DDD
2. Technical inputs on product offering. Recommendations and suggestions that would improve the product offering while meeting the social mission. This could include advice on target markets, product offering, technical gaps in offering etc.

DDD is also open to hiring candidates who do not have previous Independent / Non-Executive Director experience.

The Advisory Board meets three times per year, with a time commitment of roughly 8-10 hours per year for this role. The term length for the role is one year, subject to renewability for another year, at the discretion of the Corporate Board. DDD does not have a requirement for candidate location, but there is a slight preference for the successful candidates to be based locally to its office in New York. The meetings will be attended in-person, and pre-agreed reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed.