Dale Zak is a mobile software developer passionate about social change.

After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan and spending a number of years developing applications for large corporate clients such as Caterpillar Inc, Ritchie Bros and Pitney Bowes, Dale has now shifted his focus to helping open source initiatives and exploring ways technology can be used for social change.

While living in Halifax, he organized the Mobile Tech 4 Social Change and iPhone Hackathon 4 Charity events, and co-founded Apps 4 Good, an alliance of software developers that build iPhone applications for charity. Their second hackathon event held simultaneously in Saskatoon and Halifax had over fifty participants across the two cities, where they began developing applications for seven new charities.

Over the past two years, Dale has contributed to Ushahidi's crowdsourced crisis mapping system developing an iOS and Windows Mobile app, helped The Extraordinaries develop their revolutionary micro-volunteering platform for the iPhone, as well as developed several open source plugins for FrontlineSMS.

Last spring he travelled to Gitwe, Rwanda to help deploy an OpenMRS medical record system in a small rural hospital. Dale continues to explore ways that mobile technologies can help empower disadvantaged groups. He holds an Honours Degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan.

Dale has recently used Ushahidi to create http://ivotebecause.ca