Tech for Good Live

This is a special episode because we’ll be talking about green tech. That’s right. The environment and stuff. And technology. Fun. We’re mostly going to be talking about death and stuff.

We're joined by friends of the pod, Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from clean-tech start-up Dsposal

On the pod we talk about our carbon footprint, you can find yours by taking this short quiz here: footprint.wwf.org.uk

Things we mention:

Green Tech Symposium

Lots of stuff on energy and transport eg:

https://energimine.com/ 

https://www.qbots.ai/

http://urbanchain.co.uk/

Smart Waste Smart Resources conference

https://greyparrot.ai

https://www.stuffstr.com

https://www.rubiconglobal.com

https://www.mrw.co.uk/latest/defra-backs-digital-waste-tracking-proposals/10044921.article

And finally... UK music festivals no longer have any excuse for making a mess:

http://kumbh.gov.in/en/campaigns-swachh-kumbh

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

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Oh yeah, nearly forgot... #BinTrackerApp (you're welcome, Tom)

We’re talking about International Day of the Girl - and there’s some unpleasant stats we’ll be dealing with. DSC gave the Charity Commission a proper hammering in the press. It’s just like those design twitter fights, but everyone is more polite, and we’re looking into a new DfE report on the effect social media has on mental health.

And we have a guest with us today!

Dinah Turner - Director of Stepping into Business which aims to empower every child to succeed in the 21st century through innovations such as Entreprenaws, their 5 star rated educational app. 

Find Dinah on Twitter @dinahturner

Find out more about Stepping into Business here.

This weeks topics:

Stat of the week: 

Some stats from International Day of the Girl (Oct 11th):

• 1 in 6 girls have missed school because of their appearance
• 1 in 4 have not left the house because of their appearance
• 1 in 5 have avoided public speaking because of their appearance

Source:

https://bit.ly/2J7u3n0

130 million still not in school:

https://bit.ly/2Ihe8lh

Charity news of the week:  

Article in Third Sector blasts the Charity Commissioner:

https://bit.ly/2MB4rj2

Tech news of the week: 

New Department for Education report claims social media is not responsible for young people’s mental health problems:

https://bit.ly/2P3sIBe

On a related note Facebook launched “Let’s Talk”:

https://bit.ly/35T2Xtd

Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] 

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Nesta have announced the finalists for the “Tech to Connect” competition. Fake accounts are lobbying the US government to destroy the internet. Facebook have done something again. It's probably awful? That’s normally how it goes, we can’t keep track anymore!

We’ll also be talking about My Little Ponies. FINALLY. This is why Bex got into podcasting.

And we have the return of a guest, Phil Lennon!

Phil is a Freelance Lead Frontend, UI & Hybrid App Consultant, and part of the GROUP OF HUMANS. A curated network of the best designers, strategists, technologists and creatives in the world.

You can find him online here

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: 

9.6 million fake comments made to US government by lobbyists in support of scraping net neutrality:

https://bit.ly/2AGX97Q

Charity news of the week:  

Nesta announce finalists for Tech to Connect competition:

Charity News announcement: https://bit.ly/32bu3tr 

Full list: https://techtoconnect.challenges.org/finalists/

Tech news of the week: 

Some Facebook news, first political advertising:

https://bit.ly/2petBfz

And finally...

Ponies: The Galloping

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

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t’s October! Which means it is officially autumn. October, as you all know, is officially the greatest month of the year. A season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.

As the golden leaves slowly tumble from their branches, we’ll be covering a range of fascinating stories. The ongoing NHS privatisation is on our agenda. The CharityComms survey results are out, and as you’d imagine, everything is not ok.  

We have a guest with us!

Hera Hussain - Feminist and founder of award winning tech project, ChaynHQ, helping survivors of abuse get the information and support they need.

She also finds time to help the Open Contracting Partnership to make government contracting more open.

Find her on Twitter @herahussain

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: 

40% of small value NHS contracts were given to private firms following section 75 of the 2012 NHS act equating to £9.3billion in funding for 2018 - but the good news is this might be on the way out:

https://bit.ly/2lKhOUZ 

Charity news of the week: 

CharityComms 2019 Salary Survey:

https://bit.ly/3547LM6 

Related update on #charitysowhite:

https://bit.ly/2pLXK6a 

And a guide to wellbeing for comms professionals:

https://bit.ly/2LP6GQV 

Tech news of the week: 

Finding balance at TikTok:

TikTok Pledges $2 Million Dollars for the Season of Giving Back with #CreateforaCause - https://prn.to/30OPhvE 

TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content - https://bit.ly/2nmZLoA 

And finally...

They’re bringing back Spitting Image!!:

https://bit.ly/2njIwE6 

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

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Welcome back to a brand new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. That’s right - we got renewed for another season. That’s how popular we are! Either that, or we all just made a collective decision to stay onboard this sinking ship. We’ll see it out to the bitter, bloody end.

We have lots to talk about this week, including a report that Facebook seem to be doing something about privacy concerns of 3rd party apps - whaaaat? European charities are lagging behind the rest of the world with online donations, and tech thinks it can stop your neighbour from being an absolute knobber.

Host Bex, Producer Paul and this weeks researcher Harry Bailey are joined by trustee, journalist and all round tech for good allstar, Pauline Roche!

You can find Pauline on Twitter @paulineroche

And you can find Ellie Hale's 'collating climate tech for good' post here: https://bit.ly/2n9Ua4q

Stories mentioned on this weeks pod:

Stat of the week: 

“Tens of thousands”. Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps amid privacy investigation into rampant data theft: https://bit.ly/2m2lNfj

Charity news of the week: 

European charities are behind rest of world in accepting online donations: https://bit.ly/2moeEpJ

Big Issue vendors to accept contactless payments https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49632116

Tech news of the week: 

Nextdoor’s new Kindness Reminder wants to stop neighbors from being so mean: https://bit.ly/2ktsRkI

Homes in north London are set to be heated by warm air from the London Underground: https://bit.ly/2lFZsnW

Introducing the Hippocratic License: a modified MIT license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to harm others: https://firstdonoharm.dev

Rant of the week:

Are brain implants the future of thinking?: https://bit.ly/2lBZfSC

And finally...

Fish scales and red algae used to make biodegradable plastic which can be put into household or industrial compost heaps: https://bbc.in/2lBVfS5

And 

Boston Dynamics set to begin leasing it’s Spot robot to companies with a suitable use for one: https://bit.ly/2mnX0lW

What did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

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It’s the season finale, so that means it’s time for something a little bit special. For this episode Bex travelled to London and sat down with the exceptional Ellie Hale, Dama Sathianathan, Nissa Ramsey and Sarah Drummond. 

It’s not often you get such a formidable group of experts around the same table, so we dive straight in and debate the very state of tech for good in the UK and beyond.

Sit back, enjoy, send us thoughts, questions, complaints on twitter @techforgoodlive. You know the drill.

Things mentioned:

James Plunkett article - https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/the-good-future-d154eac8473c 

Tech vs Abuse - https://www.techvsabuse.info/ 

NetSquared Meetups - https://www.meetup.com/topics/netsquared/ 

Climate-KIC Innovation Fund - https://www.climate-kic.org/ 

Nesta DSI4EU - https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/digital-social-innovation/  

Impact.Tech - https://impact.tech/ 

Everyone on the pod can be found on Twitter:

Sarah - @rufflemuffin

Nissa - @nissaramsay

Dama - @dama_yanthy

Ellie - @eg_hale

Bex - @RebeccaWho

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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, Jonny and Fay chat with Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know & Author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. Laura also hosts the What is Wrong with UX podcast.

We talk about UX, and how to actually build products that work, and chat about all things Silicon Valley.

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 week we are talking about Ecosia and the Amazon being on fire. The hashtag #CharitySoWhite was trending on Twitter - we talk about that. And there’s a new food-sharing platform that we should probably tuck into. Pun 100% intended. 

And we have a great guest with us today!

Michal Wisniewski from Flock, a #HR #tech #startup that recently completed the #LisbonChallengeAccelerator.

Flock’s mission is to help people find their calling at work. They help businesses to raise performance by aligning core values and motivations within organisations.

Find out more here: https://yourflock.co.uk/

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week: Ecosia search engine sees a 1,150% spike in users following Amazon fires:

https://bit.ly/2NHm4A8

EU offers £16million to help fight Amazon fires:

https://bbc.in/2PkFQ6D

Which Brazil are turning down:

https://bbc.in/2Loofpx

But is the situation worse in Africa:

https://bbc.in/2MOKHLh

Charity news of the week: #charitySoWhite: 

https://bit.ly/2Hk83Ee

https://bit.ly/2LgtZ4o

Tech news of the week:

Food sharing platform aka Jonny’s nightmare - https://olioex.com

Rant of the week:

Biometrics is a lie...

https://bit.ly/2o4wcGl

https://bit.ly/2mcGcg5

https://bit.ly/2PrdIz6

https://bbc.in/2zdNZix

And finally...

Trump thinks he’s living in a Channel 5 Sci-Fi movie:

https://bbc.in/2zdNZix

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On this week’s show we talk about digital maturity in the charity sector. We’ll also find out more about some awesome new Girl Scout badges, such as coding for good and Tom is going to rant about recycling. 

Our guest this week is Nissa Ramsay. Nissa is a freelance research consultant working in the tech for good space. You can find her on Twitter @NissaRamsay

In her own words, it’s pretty niche, but if what you do sounds like what Nissa does - i.e. you work in UK charity sector, freelance, in the tech for good space, but basically you are not a tech person - then join their community. Or send them info on projects you need (paid) help for and want to advertise to freelancers:

http://www.thinksocialtech.org/community

On Digital Maturity - if you’d like to take part in the next phase of the research, please get in touch with [email protected] 

You can hear more about the findings from the Digital Maturity research via the Catalyst network at the end of August, via their Medium blog https://medium.com/wethecatalysts. 

TheCatalyst.org.uk is the major new collaborative to bring a social purpose to the digital revolution.

Catalyst is a coalition of major foundations, digital design agencies, civil society bodies and the UK government seeking to massively accelerate the use of digital in the UK’s voluntary and charity sector.

CAST is the incubator and a member of TheCatalyst.org.uk 

You can see their poster about the findings here: http://thinksocialtech.org/digitalmaturityresearh/poster 

And finally, you can also read their Guide to Digital Maturity Assessments here

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Things we talked about in this week’s show:

Stat of the week: 50 guides, codes, self-assessment tools, research papers and blogs on digital maturity:

https://bit.ly/2L1WWAT

Charity news of the week: Girl Scouts launches a bunch of new badges including coding for good:

https://bit.ly/2HmU5Sl

Tech news of the week:

Amazon facepalms in a naked attempt to spread propaganda about their fulfilment centres:

https://nyti.ms/30DpOX3

https://bbc.in/30kpSL8

Rant of the week: The article grinding Tom’s gears:

https://bit.ly/2P0VMLd

And finally... A nice refugee story from Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MeAndVan/status/1161211789247426560

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In this weeks episode, Producer Paul chats to Dsposal's Sophie Walker and Tom Passmore about what they got up to at last months Bluedot festival, a music, science and culture event held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.

They discuss their attempts to demystify data in a fun and informative way with Open Data Manchester and of course, their special interest in the on-site bins.

We also had Harry Bailey out in the field, inverviewing Matthew Cobb. Matthew studies the sense of smell in maggots, as part of his job as Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester. He is also interested in the history of science, and his most recent book, Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, was shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Book Prize. He discusses what insights we have gained from robots down the centuries, in particular how we think about the brain, and explores what tomorrow holds.

Further reading:

Open Data Manchester at Bluedot: https://bit.ly/2NfDWSf

Matthew Cobb:

https://twitter.com/matthewcobb

Rachael Ainsworth: The Violent Birth of Stars:

https://bit.ly/30bxHCx

Bluedot Offical Site:

discoverthebluedot.com

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