Tech for Good Live

We are back at UX Copenhagen! With Coronavirus taking the conference fully online this year, we’re running a number of special remote podcast episodes called “Making Friends with… "

In this series, a member of the Tech for Good Live team will spend some time chatting to one of the UX Copenhagen speakers, and by the end of it we’ll be best friends. GUARANTEED.

This time we’re talking to Trina Falbe..

Trine Falbe has been working professionally with Internet related things since 2001.  She is a researcher, consultant, speaker and lecturer who works in the intersection between UX, business and ethical design. She is also the author of excellent The Ethical Design Handbook.

In this episode, she talks to Jonny about… you guessed it… ethical design.

Find out more about Trine at trinefalbe.com.

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

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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

We are back at UX Copenhagen! With Coronavirus taking the conference fully online this year, we’re running a number of special remote podcast episodes called “Making Friends with… "

In this series, a member of the Tech for Good Live team will spend some time chatting to one of the UX Copenhagen speakers, and by the end of it we’ll be best friends. GUARANTEED.

First up, we have Per Axbom.

During his work with the handbook 'Digital Compassion', and related workshops that he hosts, Per has often come across misconceptions about how an ethical mindset constrains innovation and creativity. But he has found that on the contrary, even medical ethics encourages risk-taking, and innovation in the field is booming.

The field of medical ethics has evolved for thousands of years. Per’s talk at UX Copenhagen took all of these (and more) aspects into account, and showed us how digital design can keep innovating in unison with ethics, instead of assuming a conflict with innovation that is more imagined than real.

In this episode, he talks to Bex about the complexity of ethics in design.

Find out more about Per at axbom.eu and have a listen to his podcast UX Podcast.

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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 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

There’s a good chance you’re at home right now, so put the kettle on, grab yourself a brew, lock your pets and children in the garden and enjoy our Coronavirus packed episode. Does anybody have anything else to talk about?

On this week’s show, we’re talking about the rise and rise of tools for working from home. We discuss support and funding for charities during this strangest of times, and we look at how TikTok are doing bad bad things with social engineering, amazingly it’s not Coronavirus related.

This week’s remote host is Harry Bailey. Joining him from the comfort of their respective sofas are Greg Ashton, Sam Milsom and Bex Rae-Evans

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week

40% increase in usage of Teams in week:

Microsoft, Google, and Zoom are trying to keep up with demand for their now free work-from-home software

Charity news of the week

Funds and campaigns to support charities during the pandemic

Tech news of the week:

Tik Tok try a little social engineering

And finally… 

Light at the end of the tunnel?

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Please wash your hands. Self-isolate. Check in on people. Support your local businesses. Champion your health workers! We all need to stick together in these times.

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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 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

Today is a special episode because the world is battling COVID-19 - a deadly strain of Coronavirus. After Ebola, this is the most closely watched global pandemic and social media has played a big part in spreading advice and misinformation.

Because this topic is on a deadly global pandemic, we may be discussing subjects that might be distressing for some people, so take care when listening. 

Joining host Bex on this completely remote podcast we have:

Regular Hera Hussain, who is in self-isolation and is getting COVID-19 related news every second from her family who work in the NHS, which is driving her crazy. 

We also have two fantastic guests:

Jane Lytvynenko who is fighting the misinformation warfare on the frontlines for Buzzfeed and is joining us from Toronto, Canada, where the cases have increased and the government has announced border closures.

Nathan Young, a Political Technologist and Newspeak House Fellow. He works in institutional decision making and co-founded CoronavirusTechHandbook.com

Stat of the week:

The ultimate crowdsourced coronavirus handbook. It has 23 editable sections, 100s of projects, 23 chat threads and has received 186k views in the last week.

Charity news of the week:  

Covid-19 Mutual aid - How to help the vulnerable near you

South Korea's ‘Safety guidance texts’ sent by the authorities contain an avalanche of personal information 

Tech news of the week: 

ODI shares why governments around the world should be openly publishing the data and models that underpin their decision-making around Covid-19 

Several of India's mobile networks are playing a 30-second information alert about coronavirus before the start of every phone call.

Rant of the week:

Hoaxes and disinformation

Buzzfeed is keeping track of the fake news 

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube have all partnered up to tackle the crisis. 

Nice of the week:

Wikimedia went to half-time work for all staff and contractors — 20 hours a week, but full time pay.

Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices

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Please wash your hands. Self-isolate. Check in on people. Support your local businesses. Champion your health workers! We all need to stick together in these times.

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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 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

On this week’s podcast we are talking about whether the government should break up tech companies that wield too much power. Spoiler: yes.

We’re also covering sexism within charity fundraising and talking about the Charity Digital skills report. 

Helping host Bex discuss these weighty topics are Greg Ashton and Harry Bailey

Stat of the week

• 56 percent said the government should break up tech companies if they control too much of the economy
• 72 percent said that Facebook has too much power
• 51 percent said Google and YouTube should be split into separate companies

Source: The Verge

Charity news of the week  

Sexism in charity fundraising

Charity digital skills survey is out - Closing April 3

Tech news of the week

Facebook...yes Facebook, are looking for proposals for research into integrity

Corona Virus tech handbook - A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak initiated by The London College of Political Technologists

Rant of the week

Tech For Good is Bad?

And finally… 

Children in China got out of doing homework by giving the app they use enough bad reviews to get it kicked from the app store

Science of happiness course at Bristol university 

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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 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.

This is a special episode because it’s International Women’s Day! We’ve recorded a special episode on this day over the past few years. You can check them out on our website if that sounds like fun for you.

Although, they’re probably not relevant any more because everything is totally fine and ok in the world now. It’s 2020. We’ve fixed all the issues plaguing the human race. There is no more inequality. Everything is fine. Everyone is happy. Honest.

Warning: Because this topic is around gender and tech, we may be discussing subjects that might be distressing for some people, so take care when listening. 

Joining host Bex are some excellent TFGL Women, Hera Hussain and Sacha Wynne.

Bex was thinking about gender and tech before it was cool. Now it’s cool, there are UN hackathons and AI roundtables a-plenty. Don’t get her started on that, she’s got lots to stay and she will save it for another day!

Hera lives and breathes gender and tech so it’s going to be hard to rein her in, but I suppose it is International Women’s Day. She can go wild with her commentary. But only today - like corporate feminism - everything goes back to sweatshops and unequal pay tomorrow. 

Sacha, like the many men who come out of the woodwork to put #HeforShe in their twitter bio once a year, her presence is a rarity!

Discussed on the show:

Stat of the week 

#Stalkerware infections grew by 40% in 2019, says @kaspersky . 67,500 unique users had stalkerware apps installed on their phones in 2019 #GIoT

Charity news of the week

The campaign sees Solace Women’s Aid use Twitter’s hidden replies function to highlight the plight of those trapped in ‘hidden’ abusive relationships. 

Parents beg Pornhub to remove explicit sex photos of underage teenagers more quickly

Bristol Post becomes one of the first newspapers to share abuse and threats made to Greta Thunberg by people from Bristol.

Tech news of the week 

Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable stake’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News

A Rant or Nice of the week? (or both…)

The Vatican has joined forces with tech giants Microsoft and IBM to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) and call for regulation of intrusive technologies such as facial recognition.

Tracy Chou's app for blocking online harassment is in beta The engineer and tech diversity advocate is working on an app called Block Party.

And finally… 

eBay bans sellers from using coronavirus to 'profit from tragedies and disasters'.

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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 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.

What is technology doing about the climate crisis? How is it making the Earth cool again? And what on earth is climate tech? 

Joining host Hera Hussain are Greg Ashton and Open Data Manchesters‘s Sam Milsom..

And our guest this week is Claire Stocks, activist & exploramentor, who writes at Bee The Change  and campaigns with Walk Ride GM.

This week’s topics…

Stat of the week: 

10 million additional travellers to fly through manchester airport by the end of the decade

Charity news of the week: 

Jeff Bezos just donated 10 billion to fight climate change, so what?

How it could be spent...

And why that won’t really matter.

Also, does offsetting work as a climate solution: offset.earth

Also...

What is a billion!? 

Tech news of the week: 

Quarter of all tweets about climate crisis created by bots.

A Rant or Nice of the week?

Manchester council local plan consultation is currently open - why we need to be active in commenting on these plans here and anywhere in the world

It heralds the airport as a line economic driver and hub contrary to eco crisis, how do we tackle the imbalance of economic growth and solving the climate crisis?

The mayor is also planning to make the environment centrepiece of his Tenure if re-elected and is asking people To contribute to his manifesto.

But will we see bold steps like in other cities across the UK. 

And finally…

Things are going well for renewables though as between July and September last year the UK produced more energy from renewables than fossil fuels for the first time

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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 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

Warning: This week's podcast episode features news articles which discuss suicide and mental health.

In this episode we have a slightly different format than our usual weekly pod. Don’t worry, we’ll still be talking about doom and gloom in tech and society in our constant search for glimmers of hope. But, we’re focusing specifically on data, because this month’s event is a collaboration with the excellent people at Open Data Manchester. So we’ll be talking about data being used to identify keywords that help identify those at risk of suicide, how data is used in the media and whether there’s a conflict between making things open and commercial viability. 

Joining host Sophie Walker are TFGL team members Hera Hussain and Greg Ashton, along with Open Data Manchesters ‘s Sam Milsom.

And we have guests, plural!

Pete Sherlock, Assistant Editor at the BBC Shared Data Unit. In 2015, he was tasked with setting up a unit to provide innovative data-driven content for the website. The unit went from strength to strength, producing a series of original news stories and features that resonated with the BBC’s online audiences.

And we have Annie Gouk, Deputy Editor of data and multimedia at Reach, whose titles include the Mirror, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo and Birmingham Mail. She uses data every day to write national and local news stories as well as being the host of The North in Numbers - a stats based podcast that uses data to get to the heart of issues that affect the North.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: 

4 words and 1 emoji that can signify someone is a suicide risk

Charity/media news of the week:

Ex-love island contestant Molly-Mae to donate proceeds from new fashion line to Mind following the death of Caroline Flack

Are the public hypocrites when calling for greater protections for public figures:

And an interesting perspective

Rant/Provocation... of the week?

AI and open vs closed data - when is it appropriate? What are the misconceptions? Risks vs benefits? Who do we trust?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615181/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/16/ai-systems-claiming-to-read-emotions-pose-discrimination-risks 

https://blog.roboflow.ai/self-driving-car-dataset-missing-pedestrians/ 

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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 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.

On this week’s show we’re talking about how the internet is tracking you. We chat about “Safer Internet Day” and discuss a more ethical ride sharing service.

Host Bex is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton, Mille Vardheim and Producer Paul.

And our guest this week is Chris Paul, Social Entrepreneur, Senior Non Profit Professional, and former Elected Representative, as a Manchester Councillor from 2011-2019. He was also a founder of City Life, the Manchester-based news, arts and listings magazine that was published between December 1983 and December 2005.

This week’s topics:   

Stat of the week 

190+ trackers installed when you view the Manchester Digital Blueprint

A problem not just for the GM council

Charity news of the week  

Safer internet day on Feb 11th - equality now have released some resources #SaferInternetDay #SID2020

DO THE QUIZ! 

Great examples of projects making the internet better

We know big tech has a responsibility, but where do we go next?

Tech news of the week 

More ethical ride sharing

A Rant or Nice of the week?

Facial recognition rant Pt.1

Facial recognition rant Pt.2

& a carbon neutral street food nice

And finally… 

Great use of AI and satellite imaging

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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 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

On this week's show we’re looking at the release of the Tech Talent Charter report. In short, if you’re a woman in tech, everything is still crap. We’ll also be looking at Nicky Morgan’s 5 principles to make tech work for everyone. Principle 1, is probably - “there’s no such thing as a principle worth sticking to”, and Principle 2 is, “let’s all eat the poor”. 

Hera Hussain is on hosting duties, she’s joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Producer Paul.

Our guest this week is Dan Sodergren (Flock / The Landing). Dan is a serial startup founder and a digital marketing and technology expert with over 20 years experience in the Manchester technology sector.

This week’s topics…

Stat of the week: 

Tech Talent Charter Report

And Baroness Nicky Morgan outlined 5 principles to make tech work for everyone

Charity news of the week:

Virtual Reality Rehabilitation

Tech news of the week:

In the light of rising racial tensions Facebook takes a proactive and out of character step

Whilst taking a very incharacter step in the same week

A Rant or Nice of the week?

Good or bad, what do digital IDs hold for the future:

https://digitalid.theengineroom.org/ 

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/03/kenya-halts-biometric-id-scheme-discrimination-fears

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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. Just visit the Tech for Good Live website to find out how.

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 at podcast.co. 

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