Tech for Good Live

This week we are chatting about a robotic turtle funded by Nesta and the most evil people in tech (like every week!) and wondering if the government will ignore another piece of statistical evidence that they paid for… slow clap. 

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

And our guest this week is Christina McDermott 

Christina is the Managing Director of Cattington, a social media and digital content agency based in Liverpool. 

She’s worked in social media for over ten years and her career has encompassed everything from creating content for clients including Channel 4 and pretending to be the Green Giant on Facebook. (People asked him a lot of questions about poo.) 

This week’s topics:   

Stat of the week:

Half of veganuary participants stay vegan

Charity news of the week: 

Tech ideas competition for children from Nesta has announced it’s semi-finalists:

A mention for Mental Health Foundation testing new app in Manchester

Tech news of the week: 

Slate review of evil tech companies

A Rant or Nice of the week?

Priti Patel’s plan to tackle radicalised youth is so flawed it’s mad, says study 

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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] 

And 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 podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty. 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.

You can find out more about our friends Happy Porch at happyporch.com

It’s our first episode of the year, and we’ve got a great show lined up for you. We talk about the North / South divide in the charity sector. Oxfam gets some stick because of an expensive jacket, and facial recognition is still the absolute worst.

Host Rebecca Rae-Evans is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton, Sacha Wynne and producer Paul Jakubowski.

Our special guest this week is Sarah Miguel, Head of Business Development at People’s History Museum.

Sarah leads on marketing, digital, and income generation at the PHM, building relationships with partners and funders to drive change, raise the profile of the museum and build the organisations resilience and sustainability. She leads a fantastic and passionate team, whose work helps the museum tell the stories of ‘ideas worth fighting for’.

This week’s topics...

Stat of the week: 

New charity density report from NPC shows a huge imbalance for impoverished areas with places like Blackpool getting 0.6 per 1,000 whilst South Northamptonshire gets 3.2 per 1,000.

Charity news of the week:  

Oxfam called greedy for pricing of designer jacket.

Schools to introduce free sanitary products.

Tech news of the week: 

Facial recognition ...yep.

But there’s hope

Rant of the week:

If you restrict access to open-source code, is it still open?

Related:

People’s History Museum announces plans for 2020

And finally… 

Newly labelled “longevity economy” taking off at CES

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

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

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty.

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. You can find out more about our friends Happy Porch at happyporch.com

Christmas is a time for friendship, joy, fun, election rage and disappointment, and most importantly - a time for podcasts. Pretty sure there is a christmas song that will back that up.

Thanks for joining us for this special episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It’s a podcast about technology being used for social good. We’ll be talking about our favourite news from the year.  And this episode is special for three reasons:

1. It’s Christmas. YES
2. We’re joined by our friends from other brilliant Manchester meetups: HER+Data MCR, Open Data Manchester, Py Data Manchester and McrFRED. Welcome everyone! 
3. And finally - because this episode is being recorded in front of a fabulous live audience at Leaf in Manchester.

We have two panels for the price of one!

Panel two starts at 19m 50s

Panel One Host:

Rebecca Rae-Evans

Panel One Guests:

Harry Bailey

Sam Milsom

Simon Owen

Panel Two Host:

Hera Hussain

Panel Two Guests:

Sacha Wynne

Dr. Rachael Ainsworth

John Carney

Thanks to podcast.co for helping us out with podcast stuff and Evolution for sponsoring this event. 

If you liked what you heard, please drop us a friendly review on iTunes. Our Mums would love it.

If you want to talk to us or send complaints, which is clearly more likely, our twitter is @techforgoodlive

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal. .

Can the Circular Economy ever create a world of positive social change? In the third and final episode of Series Two we discuss the powerful, political world of economics and then look to the future, with the help of bananas.

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Huge thanks to all this season's contributors:

Gaëlle Guillaume

Iain Gulland

Ken Webster

Marc Zornes

James Close

Andy Doran

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This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal.

Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans

Produced by Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans and Rebecca Rae-Evans.

Music has been graciously provided by George Fell.

Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide.

You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal. .

In this second episode of Series Two, we talk to people who make beautiful cars and the people who recycle the metal in the cars.

And Tom's mind is blown, multiple times!

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Huge thanks to all this season's contributors:

Gaëlle Guillaume

Iain Gulland

Ken Webster

Marc Zornes

James Close

Andy Doran

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This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal.

Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans

Produced by Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans and Rebecca Rae-Evans.

Music has been graciously provided by George Fell.

Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide.

You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal. .

In this first episode in Season Two, we have a look at the wing of the Circular Economy we missed in Season One, the bio-cycle, and we start digging into economics – both circular and linear - and ask questions like...

“Who is the Circular Economy for?”

“Will it stop the climate emergency?”

“Will it make the rich richer?

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Huge thanks to all this season's contributors:

Gaëlle Guillaume

Iain Gulland

Ken Webster

Marc Zornes

James Close

Andy Doran

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This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal.

Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans

Produced by Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans and Rebecca Rae-Evans.

Music has been graciously provided by George Fell.

Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide.

You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

Recorded live at Unheard Voices, hosted in YES, Manchester.

Unheard Voices is an inspiring and informative one-day music education conference that asks ‘whose voices aren’t being heard?’ and is presented by Brighter Sound and More Music

Generation Phone – The Problem’s Not Them. It’s Us.

The effects of technology on young people are constantly portrayed as negative. But have we got this wrong? Have we just failed to keep up over the last decade? And are we now excluding young people if we don’t embrace new technology?

Hosted by Ben White, Tech For Good Live podcast regular and Managing Director at award winning social enterprise Reason Digital.

The Panel:

Sarah Angel

Bolton born singer-songwriter and model who has been flaunting her experimental soul sound over the past couple of years across the UK. Sarah’s versatility and creative passion has led her into the creation of her style blog, fashion films, and subsequent music videos, working both in front of the camera and behind the scenes in artistic and co-direction.

Find Sarah on YouTube and her website

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April Preston

April was the first spokesperson for Stockport Young Carers and has been passionate activist from the age of 10. She continues to campaign on a wide range of issues from mental health to children leaving care. April is also a is a trustee of Autistic Associationof Greater Manchester. She has campaigned to repeal Section 28, and against the Iraq war.April has also argued against the council’s treatment of our homeless and chaired events fighting for a more diverse and tolerant society.

Find April on Twitter

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Lewis

Lewis has been djing for around six years and producing for two. He mainly djs electronic music ranging from house to dubstep to drum n bass. Lewis is part of More Music's Youth Programme and regularly headlines gigs at More Music's Music Hall in Morecambe, as well as performing at festivals in the North West.

Find Lewis on Soundcloud and elsewhere

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Freddie Aitken

As the newly appointed Operations and Finance Officer at Brighter Sound, record label owner, radio show host and electronic music producer and performer Freddie Aitken has been a part of Manchester’s progressive electronic music scene since his arrival at the University of Manchester to study Social Anthropology in 2013. Throughout this period, engaging young audiences in the most effective way possible has always been a top priority.Modern technologies, with all their challenges and opportunities, have been ever-present.

Find Freddie (as Ayrtan) on Soundcloud

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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] 

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

Welcome to our special bonfire night edition. As we’re all no doubt aware Bonfire night celebrates the triumph of brutal, state sponsored persecution in the face of a bloody failure of violent rebellion. With sparklers. What more appropriate night could there be for an episode of the Tech for God live podcast.

We have a guest with us! Lauren Hogan, Volunteering Projects Officer with Turn2us, a national charity who support people facing financial struggles.

You can find out more about their Connect tool at https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Connect 

This week’s topics:   

Stat of the week: 

'84% of traffic to Childline is accessed via a Google product, and we have no control over this.

https://twitter.com/odihq/status/1190256225029632000?s=12

Campaign news of the week: 

The Supported Loving campaign led by My Life My Choice:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/30/campaign-for-learning-disabled-peoples-love-lives

Tech news of the week:

Twitter bans political ads whilst Facebook doubles down on not even fact checking them:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952?s=12

https://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-dropping-all-political-ads/

Beyond the fact checking there’s more unusual activity on Facebook ads:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50270727

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/31/facebook-prep-ads-instagram-political

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/04/i-worked-political-ads-facebook-they-profit-by-manipulating-us/ 

A Rant or Nice of the week?:

130 banks sign up to UN Principles for Responsible Banking - Greenwashing or a genuine effort by banks to improve:

https://www.positive.news/economics/clean-money-could-a-commitment-to-responsible-banking-make-the-banks-better/

And finally…

Sifted is looking for nominations for the real "game changers" out there — from founders to developers to community builders in Europe - nominate yourself and your tech for good friends: 

https://sifted.eu/articles/sifted-gamechanger-callout/ 

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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] 

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

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty.

The team break free from our Manchester studio and head down south to the glorious Bath Digital Festival to record two special live episodes.

In this second episode, we’re taking questions on Social Media and Democracy, in a live recording of BDF Question Time 2019, a public debate about the ethics of social media and the role they play in the rise and fall of our democratic process.

Our host is Jim Morrison, Director of Bath Digital Festival and founder of OneSub

He’s joined by:

Rebecca Rae-Evans - Reply & Tech For Good Live

Bex is founder of the design studio Reply, and the podcast Tech for Good Live. Rebecca has a varied and extensive 15 year agency background in research and user-centred design. Deciding she wanted to align her work with her personal values, 6 years ago, Rebecca transitioned into working exclusively on projects that are for the social (and environmental) good. 

John Harris - The Guardian 

John is a Guardian columnist, who writes on subjects including politics, popular culture and music. He is the co-creator of its acclaimed video series “Anywhere But Westminster,” which focuses on the social realities underlying huge changes in politics.

Eriol Fox - Ushahidi

Eriol is a Design Lead who has worked in-house roles for 9+ years. Eriol is a Humanitarian/tech for good advocate and video game enthusiast. Ushahidi is a humanitarian, non-profit technology leader, developing open-source, digital tools to help people with better democratic process, human rights issues, natural and human-made disasters.

James Padolsey - Ex-Facebook & Twitter Software Engineer

James in his past as a software engineer worked at Facebook, Twitter & Stripe. He stepped away after ten years in tech and is now training as a paramedic.

Mykola Kuzmin - University of Manchester

Mykola is a 3rd year PPE student at the University of Manchester. Debate Mate Advanced Mentor, winner of Model United Nations competition at Regent's University and the winner of The Devil's Advocates debate on Immigration.

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Thanks to Bath Digital Festival, and to OneSub for bringing us here. OneSub are pretty ace, you should have a look at what they do, they’re building a new way to read the news, helping to balance bias and break out of filter bubbles. 

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

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

The team break free from our Manchester studio and head down south to the glorious Bath Digital Festival to record two special live episodes.

First up, we’re talking Digital Healthcare.

Digital and technology provides so many opportunities to improve systems, process and experiences for good. Is this really the case for the health sector? What are the opportunities for the health sector? Can current innovation do more harm than good? Can we build for prevention rather than reacting? How can digital solutions reach and benefit those who are digitally illiterate or less aware of their health?

All these questions and more are discussed by the panel.

Joining host Rebecca Rae-Evans are:

Andy Morley - New Level Health 

Andy is a pretty impressive tech specialist and local advocate for using digital for health as a preventative measure rather than reactive. He’s been working with a lot of local organisations to try and encourage more collaborative working. 

Paul Targett – RIVIAM Digital Care

RIVIAM builds platforms for health and social care providers so, can provide a great example of using technology for health. In this area RIVIAM supports child immunisations managing digital consents from parents and is supporting Virgin Care Adult services. Also provide digital referral and consent services for mental health and child physical health services.

Margaret Davidson - Mayden Academy 

Margaret heads up business development and marketing for Mayden Academy, helping to create a pipeline of diverse talent into tech. Mayden Academy teaches people how to code, preparing them for new careers as software developers in just 16 weeks. We are one of the top coding training providers in the UK, with a 100% graduation rate, 100% post-course employment rate, and five star ratings on graduate review sites.

Dr. Shanil Mantri

Shan is an experienced GP, former Chief Clinical Information Officer for a Clinical Commissioning Group and has an entrepreneurial interest in health technology.

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Thanks to One Sub for bringing us to this event and to Bath Digital Festival for having us. 

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

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