Tech for Good Live

There’s lots to talk about this week, including a new charity social network that aims to connect charities with volunteers and the fact Carole Cadwalladr has launched a crowd funder to fight back against the enemy of everything and everyone that is decent...Arron Banks.

We have a wonderful guest to mull all this over with, Gemma McCall, Co-Founder of Culture Shift. (https://culture-shift.co.uk/)

Culture Shift is a Tech For Good business whose mission is to positively change culture.

You can find out more about their first product Report + Support at reportandsupport.co.uk

And you can find Gemma on Twitter @Gezzabelle

This weeks stories:

Stat of the week: 

84% of rape claims in London are classified as a crime by the police but only 6% make it to court.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jul/31/only-3-of-rape-claims-london-result-convictions-study-says

Charity news of the week:

Smiley Network aims to connect volunteers and charities:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/07/31/the-smiley-network-matches-charities-with-people-who-can-be-of-help/ 

Tech news of the week: 

Carole Cadwalladr is doing a crowdfunder to help her fight against Arron Banks via Go Fund Me:

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1157318676535816192?s=08 

Continuing the story:

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1156115388255674369?s=12

And on the topic of Facebook:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7edb/this-tool-lets-you-see-facebooks-targeted-political-ads-all-over-the-world 

And finally...

Facebook facepalms:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kx8ay/facebooks-new-chatbot-is-unsure-if-mark-zuckerberg-is-a-murderer 

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We're back in the studio this week and Sophie Walker from Dsposal is in the hosting hotseat, sitting in for Bex who is currently drowning in a sea of foster kittens (no, really!)

She's joined by podcast regulars Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski from Reason Digital.

And we have a special guest, Alex Alexandrescu. Alex is Co-Founder of Dicey Tech, helping companies prototype and develop smart products, using that same knowledge to create future-proof educational experiences.

You can find out more about Dicey Tech at https://diceytech.co.uk/ and you can find Alex on Twitter

Topics this week include:

Stat of the week:

24% of people in the UK now use digital payment apps and NSPCC have taken advantage of this:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/07/29/digital-wallet-donations-lead-to-increase-in-giving-for-nspcc/ 

Charity news of the week:

Instagram launch donation stickers in Europe:

https://medium.com/@NicolaGeeTweets/instagram-donate-3f679bf4ac74 

Quick mention...

£2 million available from Nesta’s Future News fund:

https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/announcing-future-news-pilot-fund/

Tech news of the week:

The worm continues to turn, really really slowly, for tech::

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/23/20707658/justice-department-antitrust-big-tech-review-google-apple-investigations 

And finally..

Ear tickling can prevent aging:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49157343

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In this special episode of Tech For Good Live, the team embarked on a trip to a wonderfully sunny Leeds, to meet the team from The Digital Cooperative Development Consortium (DCDC)

while they ran the Coop Hack, a two day ethical tech hackathon as part of Cooperative Fortnight 2019.

DCDC is a cooperative body built with technology at its heart (a platform coop). They dream of a future where software is created collaboratively and distributed frictionlessly, a future where tech companies operate fairly and transparently, and a future where technology empowers individuals, by protecting the privacy and self-sovereignity of their data.

On the podcast we're joined by Benjamin Babik, Co-Founder & Technical Architect at DCDC. He talks to us about what happened at the hack, how DCDC got started, and his hopes for cooperative technology in the future.

You can find out more about DCDC at https://dcdc.io

and on Twitter @dcdcio

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We have an action packed episode of greatness for you this week. Amazon have teamed up with the NHS. What could go wrong? Stanford are doing something around facial recognition. There is also something in the agenda about “Giving a Shit for Good”. That seems on brand.

We have a smaller team this time out, small but mighty. Like poorly diluted Vimto. It’s too syrupy. Too strong. Everyone regrets it. But it is powerful.

Host Bex Rae-Evans is joined by Reason Digital's Greg Ashton, and Head of Design at Snook, Jonny Rae-Evans.

Topics discussed in the episode:

Stat of the week:

10,000 images and 82,000 annotated heads is just one data set created by Stanford university for facial recognition datasets

https://nyti.ms/2Lho8hT

Charity news of the week:

Give a shit for good:

https://giveashitforgood.org/

Tech news of the week:

Quick mention for the Facebook record fine:

https://bit.ly/2XRrNcM

Main story - Amazon to team up with NHS:

https://bit.ly/30OEUbV

Related:

https://bit.ly/2O4Jy3P

https://bit.ly/2xKdqaK

And finally...

Sight for the blind:

https://bit.ly/32xiLR3

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Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. Season Two ended in a big way - with live podcasts brought to you from Camp Digital. It was fun. Such guests. Much podcasting.

But we are back now in the Manchester studio, that means it must be time for 2019 Season Three. 

On today’s agenda… we talk about Charity whistleblowing, Facebook trying to create a global currency and there's a cathartic rant about the term 'diversity & inclusion'.

Our guest this week is Kirsty Devlin. Kirsty is Founder and Programme Director at coding school, Recode UK. Recode believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn to code, regardless of their postcode.

They provide a free coding education for individuals who belong to under represented groups within the technology industry and to anyone for whom adversity or financial hardship acts as a barrier to entry.

Find out more about them at https://recode.org.uk/

This weeks topics:

Stat of the week:

Charity whistleblowing has increased by 83% since the Oxfam scandal:

https://bit.ly/2XLkE9b

Charity news of the week: 

Plans to extend hostile environment to include charities:

https://bit.ly/2JwYNgf

https://bit.ly/2LNwKMA

Tech news of the week: 

Libra - Facebook’s global currency gets charity support and then hits a blocker:

https://bit.ly/2FvTi0u

https://bit.ly/2JH2wrF

https://bit.ly/2S9OWkw

And finally....

Fuck of as a service

https://foaas.com/

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We're back at Camp Digital and here is the final episode of our three special podcasts recorded live in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.

Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans, Activist, strategist, commentator & account manager at Sigma. She's joined by podcast regular Ben White , Director at social enterprise Reason Digital.

Joining them for a deep dive into some of the topics raised throughout Camp Digital 2019 are Cennydd Bowles and Matt Edgar. They discuss the latest news, trends and controversies in ethical tech.

Cennydd Bowles is a London-based designer and writer with fifteen years of experience advising clients including Twitter, Ford, Cisco, and the BBC. His focus today is the ethics of emerging technology. He has lectured on the topic at Facebook, Stanford University, and Google, and is a sought-after speaker at technology and design events worldwide. His second book, Future Ethics, was published in 2018.

You can find him on Twitter @Cennydd

Matt Edgar is head of design for NHS Digital and his focus is on digital services for NHS patients, carers and the public, while developing designers and the design profession across the whole organisation.

Matt previously spent 5 years as a service designer, digital coach, and founder of service design and innovation consultancy Stick People. He developed the GDS Service Manager Programme, and coached in the DWP Digital Academy.

His service design clients included the Co-op, NHS organisations, and local government.

You can find him on Twitter @mattedgar

This podcast is possible thanks to the support of Podcast.co, The Federation supported by Luminate and The Co-op Foundation.

And our June sponsor OneSub - they’re crowdfunding to break the echo chamber giving you instant access to a difference of opinion and helping you get a balanced view of the world. To find out more, go to https://onesub.io/crowd

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We're back at Camp Digital and here is the second of three episodes recorded live in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.

In this episode we are joined for a chat by the fireside by Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet.

Now globally acclaimed as leading experts in the field, AbilityNet specialises in advising individuals on adaptive and assistive technology, as well as helping clients design attractive websites that are easy to use by all. 

A member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, Robin has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design and its impact on accessibility. In 2017, Robin was awarded with an MBE in the new year's honours list, for his services to digital inclusion. 

Robin's projects have included raising awareness through a busy public speaking schedule in Europe and the US, and co-hosting AbilityNet's Tech for All podcast. 

Robin is also very active in advising government and organisations in the area of digital strategy.

He serves on both parliamentary groups for assistive technology and disability (the APPGAT and APPGD), as well as providing on-going input into the Government Digital Strategy and directly to the DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport).

Find out more about AbilityNet @ abilitynet.org.uk

Find Robin on Twitter @ twitter.com/usa2day

He was interviewed by Greg Ashton, digital strategist at Reason Digital. He's on Twitter @ twitter.com/grgashton

This podcast is possible thanks to the support of Podcast.co, The federation supported by Luminate and The Co-op Foundation.

And our June sponsor OneSub - they’re crowdfunding to break the echo chamber giving you instant access to a difference of opinion and helping you get a balanced view of the world. To find out more, go to https://onesub.io/crowd

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We're back at Camp Digital and here is the first of three episodes recorded live in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.

In this episode we are joined for a chat by the fireside by Gavin Neate, founder of Neatebox.

After serving with The RAF in the Military Police, Gavin began an 18-year career with Guide Dogs for the Blind as a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor. His comprehensive knowledge of visual impairment and routine experience of poorly installed pedestrian crossings led him to design a unique system, with which any person living with reduced mobility, could safely and automatically operate a pedestrian crossing using their smartphone.

The ‘Button’ system has been winning innovation awards and is now installed in the entire town of Largs and increasingly available across the UK.

This success has led to a range of smart solutions based on the challenges disabled people face every day and the latest release, “Welcome”, has provided a smart platform which connects disabled shoppers to customer services teams providing the service team with training and awareness immediately prior to their customer's arrival.

Gavin has a real love for equality and inclusion and believes firmly that a positive approach and a clear understanding of all parties' points of view is the foundation for the very best solutions.

Here, he talks to us about what experience really means, in terms of professional progression and his experience of being a social tech entrepreneur.

Find him on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/gavinneate

Find out more about Neatebox

https://www.neatebox.com

He was interviewed by Sophie Walker, COO of clean tech startup Dsposal. You can find out more about Dsposal at https://dsposal.uk

This podcast is possible thanks to the support of Podcast.co, The federation supported by Luminate and The Co-op Foundation.

And our June sponsor OneSub - they’re crowdfunding to break the echo chamber giving you instant access to a difference of opinion and helping you get a balanced view of the world. To find out more, go to https://onesub.io/crowd

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This week we are talking about the exceptional turnover of socially responsible tech companies in the UK, a startup has launched an AI to help detect parkinsons and Twitter is doing research to work out if Nazis are bad. Yep. 2019 everyone. It’s 2019. (definitely not 2009)

We have a guest! Co-Founder and design partner at Hactar, Jonty Sharples. Find out more about Hactar at http://hactar.is/

SPONSOR ALERT:

OneSub is our June sponsor and is also super interesting. OneSub is a brand new startup that’s on a bit of a mission to break the “echo chamber” - that thing we’re all stuck in where Facebook and Google and Twitter only show us more of the same.

OneSub’s trying to change all that.

By training an AI to read the news for you, OneSub is able to show you an alternative perspective to any news story in seconds. It learns what you’ve read so that each day it can highlight just a few important stories to help you build a balanced view of the world… and to put your phone down when you’re all caught up.

OneSub is crowdfunding in June to kick start its public launch. Get involved at onesub.io/invest

This weeks topics:

Stat of the week:

Socially responsible technology companies in the UK have a turnover of £732 million opposed to £634 million from the manufacture of consumer electronics:

https://bit.ly/2XzAswq

Charity news of the week:

Startup launches ai app detecting parkinson’s:

https://bit.ly/2EVRqOi

Tech news of the week:

Twitter isn’t sure if nazi’s are bad:

https://bit.ly/2wQpMhf

Rant of the week:

Does politics need to change? And we’re not just talking about parties:

https://bit.ly/2HNl9KV

Similar 2017 study

https://ind.pn/2ikrJLS

Is this the answer in the US:

https://bit.ly/2wwDeql

And finally...

Gotta catch em all, and by all we mean sheep cause Pikachu is gonna help you sleep:

https://bit.ly/2KwxAfR

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Voice assistants are well sexist. We talk about that. We talk about a massive overhaul of the process of booking a breast and cervical cancer screening. Apparently it should be as simple as booking a plane ticket. Nancy Pelosi isn’t drunk - but Facebook is indifferent either way. And we have a rant about how doing good things with tech is turning into a pissing contest. Eyerolls all round.

And we have a special guest! Seren, Creative Awareness Lead for the CATS campaign. You can find her on Twitter https://twitter.com/Seren_AHJ

CATS (Cancer Awareness in Teenagers Society) are all about making sure young people know the common signs and symptoms of cancer - Find out more about their fantastic work at http://www.thecatscampaign.org/

This weeks stories...

Stat of the week:

5% of voice assistant interactions were “unambiguously sexually explicit”:

https://bit.ly/2Wg6lN3

and

https://bit.ly/2Mu07FM

UNESCO report “Think Piece 2”: https://bit.ly/2YZm154

Charity news of the week:

Making an appointment for breast and cervical cancer screening should be as simple as booking a plane ticket online, says the man behind an overhaul of the current system in England.

https://bbc.in/2Wnyq52

Tech news of the week:

Facebook leaves shallow fake (that’s a thing now) video of Nancy Pelosi online:

https://bit.ly/2wiC5Cm

and

https://bit.ly/2HNPf13

Additional reading:

https://bit.ly/30UUDa1

Rant of the week:

Is everything just an ethics competition now?

https://bit.ly/2VZznfv

And finally...

“Not wank” can be an acceptable vote:

https://bit.ly/2W19snZ

Reminder that we're still in full crowdfunder mode! You may not know this, but we’re a team of volunteers and we survive off favours, late nights and lunch times so some cash would help us reach more people and help us champion using tech for social good. There’s only a week left and if we don’t reach the a target we get nothing so if you want to contribute to the work we’re doing, show us some love!

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