Tech for Good Live

Welcome to a special edition of the Tech For Good Live podcast, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

As the wave of historic protests that rippled across the world in the wake of the barbaric public execution / murder of George Floyd by police continue, Tech For Good Live is using their platform to make a stand united in solidarity with Black Americans and global citizens to reignite and reinforce an argument around AI and the Technologies baked in bias, accuracy and ethics in the AI systems

Artificial intelligence holds a lot of promise to revolutionise our lives. Still, there's a dark side to the technology that could not only hinder progress on critical equality issues but also exacerbate them.

In this episode, Natalie Jameson, Innovation Lead at The Landing, is in conversation with Dr. Caroline Chibelushi, specialist in Artificial Intelligence at the Knowledge Transfer Network, discussing what needs to change to make this technology inclusive.

 Links mentioned in the episode:

You can apply for the GQHQ innovation co-lab at www.thelanding.org.uk/gchq-innovation-co-lab/ 

To find out more about Black Lives Matter, to support the movement or to download helpful resources, visit www.blacklivesmatter.com.

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Welcome to another episode of “Making Friends With…” - a special series where the Tech for Good Live team sit down for an in-depth interview with someone who is doing exceptional work in the tech industry.

In this episode, Greg and Fay are chatting with Jude Ower MBE, Founder & CEO of Playmob.

A serial entrepreneur, startup-mentor and an Entrepreneur in residence with Angel Academe, Jude has a passion for games for good, profit with purpose business models, startups, problem solving and innovation.

With Playmob, Jude has created a platform ‘making every click count’ raising huge sums for a variety of causes by connecting socially conscious brands to millions of engaged global gamers.

We hope you enjoy the episode. Please drop us a review on iTunes, and if you’d like to hear more interviews and conversations like this, let us know who you’d recommend we interview.

Send thoughts, suggestions and feedback on Twitter @techforgoodlive.

Welcome to another episode of “Making Friends With…” - a special series where the Tech for Good Live team sit down for an in-depth interview with someone who is doing exceptional work in the tech industry.

In this episode, Bex is catching up with filmmaker, content strategist and idea-o-phile, David Dylan Thomas.

We're cheating a little bit, having made friends with David back at UX Copenhagen in 2018 but he's such a good guy that we thought we'd find out more about what he's up to at the moment, including his upcoming A Book Apart debut!

We hope you enjoy the episode. Please drop us a review on iTunes, and if you’d like to hear more interviews and conversations like this, let us know who you’d recommend we interview.

Send thoughts, suggestions and feedback on Twitter @techforgoodlive.

This podcast is usually filled with fun and frivolity and obviously some trash talk about Facebook and Twitter, and we’ve more to say on those companies later, but first we need to talk about what is happening in our world and communities right now.

You’ll all know about the murder of George Floyd by now in Minniapolis at the hands of the police, who were supposed to protect him. Protests, anger, rage and sadness have sprung up across the states and beyond. The president has continued to stoke the fires of racism, and the police are militarised, and driving into protestors, shooting rubber bullets and tear gas into crowds and at journalists, and last night - which was Monday night for us recording - police killed another unarmed black man.

The horrifying thing is that this is nothing new. And it isn’t just a US problem. It has been happening time and time and time again. It isn’t that this one cop was racist. It isn’t that this one president is racist. Our very society is one that is built upon and held up by systematic white supremacy and I don’t seem to have any words of hope about that. I’m also aware that we are most certainly *not* the voices you need to hear talking about solutions or ways to help right now. We are allies and our role is to support and to lift up those voices that you need to hear.

So, we want to direct you to some people who know what they’re talking about and who could use your support - Find them all in this thread.

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In this episode, the team set their sights on Facebook and Twitter once again, picking up the pieces from the Trump vs Social Media incident.

Host Bex, is joined by pod regular Greg Ashton and our special guest this week is Corin bell - founder of Open Kitchen Manchester

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week

Up to 600 Facebook employees stage walkout:

CNBC - Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall 

Verge - Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence 

Matt Navarra Tweet  

Charity news of the week  

The sad loss of Dot Everyone

Tech news of the week

Trump versus social media

Is it enforceable?:

This is what started the fight

And finally… 

Insurance...for good

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

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Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

It’s the 4 year anniversary of the podcast. That’s right - we’ve been doing this for an astonishing FOUR YEARS. I’d like to personally thank both of our listeners for sticking with us for so long. This week, we’re chatting about big losses at Macmillian, casting our sceptical eyes on Stripe’s role in a free internet and Google maps being more accessible.

The birthday invites went out, and joining the party with host Bex, we have Greg Ashton and Mille Vardheim 

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: 

Macmillan expects to lose £100million in revenue this year - they made £236 million in 2018

In contrast 10 million people have volunteered during lockdown and many intend to carry on

Charity news of the week:  

Google maps to roll out accessible locations information

Tech news of the week: 

Stripe is the latest on the frontline in the debate on internet freedoms

Nice of the week:

Service Shop (Norwegian) 

And finally… 

Gamified public health messages

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

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Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

This week features stories about “Facebook Giving”, which is all about Facebook’s donation platform. That shouldn’t be confused with “Facebook Taking” - which all about how Zuckerberg and co have systematically destroyed democracy, privacy and, to be honest, the overall fabric of society.

We’ll also be taking about TikTok, because we’re cool and relevant, and we’ll be chatting about the hashtag #helpacharity.

Joining host Bex today is Greg Ashton and Fay Schofield

And our special guest this week is Will Valverde - Senior Creative Director at US based nonprofit focused digital agency M+R. He’s here to chat about M+R's annual benchmarks study which analyses data from around 200 nonprofits to reveal new trends!

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: 

M&R benchmarks report

Charity news of the week:  

Tik Tok are supporting “for good” causes with account management, data and promoted posts:

Tech news of the week: 

Makers lab style approach to open medicines

And finally… 

We are launching our #helpacharity scheme.

We are working with the @10GMpartners to gather responses from charities about their needs during this time and matching those needs with tech volunteers who can help!If you have some time and would like to hear about opportunities to #helpacharity we’ll include a link to a form in the episode notes to tell us about your skills and the help you can give.

Go to the form

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

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Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

This week’s episode is jam packed with news about tech, charity, goodness and a fair sprinkling of awfulness. 

We’re going to be talking about Full Fact’s 2020 report, Positive News are focusing on sending some, well, positive news and Alphabet’s digital city is being shut down. 

Joining host Bex today is Greg Ashton and our special guest Ben Fowkes from Delib

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week

50% of young men breach lockdown rules as opposed to 25% of young women - Guardian

And yet the virus is going to have the worst impact on livelihoods for women - MSN

Charity news of the week:  

Full Fact report 2020

Tech news of the week: 

Sidewalk labs of Alphabet has cancelled it’s Quayside project in Toronto - Medium

And finally… 

Positive news are running a crowdfunder to send paper copies to NHS workers with the aim to give them a little lift with some more positive news stories - CrowdFunder

(About the only place we get our positive news from so fully support this!)

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

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Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

We have a jam packed episode of tech-for-goodness lined up for you this week. There’s a large increase of folks using NHS technology, there’s something on the agenda about brain implants and paralysis and feared sale of .org has been stopped. Huzzah!

Joining host Bex today are Greg Ashton and Sophie Walker 

And our special guest this week is Mike Nolan. 

Mike is a software engineer, open-source consultant, AI transparency & ethics researcher, and humanitarian aid worker. He’s working with the UNICEF Innovation Fund to assist in developing sustainable open source community strategies.

This weeks topics

Stat of the week: 

38% of people have increased their use of NHS technology and in March there was a 111% increase in NHS app registrations from February - NHS

This comes as NHS goes their own way in tracking the spread of Covid-19 - BBC

Most recent and reasonable update from NHSX about the app - NCSC

And why some believe that isn't so reasonable - The Register

Whilst an Ada Lovelace Institute review claims there is no evidence to support launching an app like this - Research Live

Charity news of the week:  

Paralysis reversed by brain implant and touch decoder - SyFy

Tech news of the week:

.org sale blocked by ICANN:

ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry

And finally… 

The UK games industry will give 85,000 free games to NHS workers - Video Game Chronicles

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

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Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

On this week’s show we’re talking about the London Marathon. What will be the impact of its cancellation on the charity sector and beyond?

We’re talking about a platform that helps match charities with volunteers AND we’ll be having a peek under the hood of the new Responsible Innovation Standards launched by Innovate UK. FUN.

Joining host Bex today are Greg Ashton and Sam Milsom. 

And our special guest this week is Beckie Taylor - Co-Founder and CEO of Tech Returners.

Tech Returners is an inclusive, accessible and positive learning and coaching community empowering careers into and through technology with a focus on removing the barriers which returners face after a career break.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week

£5m versus £66.4m - what will be the impact of the London Marathon delay and potential cancellation? 

London Marathon: Delayed race could feature elite athletes only

 Charity news of the week  

SpareHand is a platform aiming to help charities find and manage volunteers looking to help out with frontline services

Tech news of the week

BSI and Innovate UK have launched the Responsible Innovation standards

Part of their growing set innovation standards:

BSI - Innovation

And finally… 

The UK had it’s longest period of coal-free energy since 1882

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

If you want to get more involved in our community, you can join our Slack channel or sign up to our newsletter. Just visit TechforGood.Live to find out how.

Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast! Once again, we’re recording this episode remotely, because the world is on fire. It’s important to stay at home. Stay safe. And be surrounded by cats, dogs and an unhealthy amount of snacks. 

In this week’s episode we’re talking about COVID-19 misinformation. We’re talking about the role of the individual too; if Captain Tom keeps walking in his background any longer, we’ll finally be able to afford universal basic income!

AND we’re talking about the NHS, data and [checks notes] ... “Clowns without borders". Cool.

Journeying through the apocalypse with host Bex, we have Greg Ashton and Fay Schofield.

And we have a special guest!

Nik Seth - founder of Holm Care an organisation helping people to find care in their home, more easily by allowing them to connect directly with the care workers.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: 

Corona misinformation from Department of Health and Social Care

Some people have been spreading misinformation:

How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet 

Charity news of the week

Captain Tom raised £20 million this week but he’s not the only one who’s been fundraising 

covidmutualaid.org/ 

twitter.com/WeAreCATTs 

Tech news of the week

NHS and the challenge of data:

Previously planned this survey aims to understand people’s perceptions of data sharing in health and social care:

Government investigates perceptions about data sharing of health and social care 

Particularly important because existing datasets were not good enough to identify at risk people: 

Covid-19: NHS datasets ‘not sophisticated enough’ to flag high risk patients 

What risks were/are there in the work still ongoing with tech organisations and creating new data platforms:

NHS partners with tech giants to develop Covid-19 data platform

And does some data need to be more accessible:

Hackers Leak Thousands of Coronavirus Research Papers  

Challenge of the week:

Efforts are being explored to make tracking the spread of the outbreak easier. 

What does this mean for our privacy? And what happens after things return to normal?

Mobile data tracking:

Some Countries Are Taking Social Distancing More Seriously Than Others 

BBC Video: Mobile data helps Norway track cases

Google and Apple plans for notifications when coming into contact with someone infected:

David Pogue Tweet

The Guardian: NHS in ststatusandoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing 

The Guardian: But what happens afterwards

And finally… 

Clowns without borders wins inaugural Kindness Awards

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Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast!

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Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty. If you want to create a podcast, you can find everything you need on their website.

We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provide strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com