Tech for Good Live

Hello 2019!

We've got lots of lovely Tech For Good Live stuff planned this year, kicking off with our new seasonal schedule!

Here's a little preview of everything we've got in store for you in the next few months!

This Tech for Good Live podcast is a three-part series about WorkerTech, made in conjunction with our friends at Bethnal Green Ventures.

In this third and final episode we wrestle with the concept of the Gig Economy and talk about precarious workers. Is the Gig Economy inherently bad and exploitative, or does it provide freedom and flexibility? Is it possible for a WorkerTech solution to exist in this space? We sit down and chat with Uber, Zinc, Cabfair and whole host of others as we try to get an answer.

Throughout this series we spoke to Dan Tomlinson from the Resolution Trust, Linda Wickstrom from Accenture, Fabian Wallace-Stephens from the Royal Society of Arts, Unman Mohamed from Organise, Guy Levin from Uber, Duncan McCann from the New Economic Foundation, Rachel Carey from Zinc and of course, Jessica Stacey from Bethnal Green Ventures.

You can find a full transcript of this episode at https://www.techforgood.live/latest/the-workertech-podcast-episode-3

This podcast has been brought to you in collaboration with Tech for Good Live and Bethnal Green Ventures.

Thanks to the contributions from Accenture, Royal Society of Arts, Resolution Trust, Organise New Economic Foundation, Zinc, and Uber. This episode wouldn’t be possible without Podcast.Co providing us with their studio space.

This podcast would not have been possible without Paul, Rebecca and Jonny from the Tech for Good Live team, and Jess, Dama and Milly from BGV.

To check out more from Bethnal Green Ventures, visit https://bethnalgreenventures.com/

To listen to more podcasts like this, visit techforgood.live or subscribe via iTunes or your favourite podcast provider.

This Tech for Good Live podcast is a three-part series about WorkerTech, made in conjunction with our friends at Bethnal Green Ventures.

In this second episode we talk about the importance of workers having a voice. The importance of employees being able to support one another, to organise and take shared action. As union membership declines and tech becomes ever more integral to work and our daily lives, has the ability to come together and to organise faded away? What role is tech playing in this space? We talk about the Google Walkout, hear about a WorkerTech case study to support Amazon employees, and we discuss remote working.

Throughout this series we spoke to Dan Tomlinson from the Resolution Trust, Linda Wickstrom from Accenture, Fabian Wallace-Stephens from the Royal Society of Arts, Unman Mohamed from Organise, Guy Levin from Uber, Duncan McCann from the New Economic Foundation, Rachel Carey from Zinc and of course, Jessica Stacey from Bethnal Green Ventures.

View a transcript of this podcast on the Tech for Good Live website.

This podcast has been brought to you in collaboration with Tech for Good Live and Bethnal Green Ventures.

Thanks to the contributions from Accenture, Royal Society of Arts, Resolution Trust, Organise New Economic Foundation, Zinc, and Uber. This episode wouldn’t be possible without Podcast.Co providing us with their studio space.

This podcast would not have been possible without Paul, Rebecca and Jonny from the Tech for Good Live team, and Jess, Dama and Milly from BGV.

To check out more from Bethnal Green Ventures, visit https://bethnalgreenventures.com/

To listen to more podcasts like this, visit techforgood.live or subscribe via iTunes or your favourite podcast provider.

This Tech for Good Live podcast is a three-part series about WorkerTech, made in conjunction with our friends at Bethnal Green Ventures.

In this first episode we explore what WorkerTech is and why we should care about it. We question whether the very nature of work is changing due to technology, and find out what real-world effect artificial intelligence and automation are having on workers in the UK.

Throughout this series we spoke to Dan Tomlinson from the Resolution Trust, Linda Wickstrom from Accenture, Fabian Wallace-Stephens from the Royal Society of Arts, Unman Mohamed from Organise, Guy Levin from Uber, Duncan McCann from the New Economic Foundation, Rachel Carey from Zinc and of course, Jessica Stacey from Bethnal Green Ventures.

View the transcript for this episode on the Tech for Good Live website.

This podcast has been brought to you in collaboration with Tech for Good Live and Bethnal Green Ventures.

Thanks to the contributions from Accenture, Royal Society of Arts, Resolution Trust, Organise New Economic Foundation, Zinc, and Uber. This episode wouldn’t be possible without Podcast.Co providing us with their studio space.

This podcast would not have been possible without Paul, Rebecca and Jonny from the Tech for Good Live team, and Jess, Dama and Milly from BGV.

To check out more from Bethnal Green Ventures, visit https://bethnalgreenventures.com/

To listen to more podcasts like this, visit techforgood.live or subscribe via iTunes or your favourite podcast provider.

It's Christmas in the studio, we have mince pies, port and other festive treats. So get the fire on, grab your favourite blanket, and prepare for what will be the highlight of your Christmas. we're so sorry if that is actually true.

Joining us for this festive treat are host Bex, podcast regulars Greg Ashton and Harry Bailey and our guest this week Hilary Stephenson, Founder MD of Sigma.

Things we talked about:

51% of adults over 75 live alone and 6% leave the house once per week or less but research by Lancaster uni says technology can help:

https://theconversation.com/how-an-app-can-help-fight-loneliness-in-old-people-at-christmas-108443

Our favourite Christmas campaigns (a few included below):

https://lightful.com/blog/social-media/charity-christmas-campaigns-2018/

Solidarity forever...another day another workers group, will 2019 be the year of the next gen unions?:

https://news.sky.com/story/video-games-workers-create-union-to-demand-rights-11581699

Or is 2019 the year of ethics washing:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/10/salesforce-hires-its-first-chief-ethical-and-humane-use-officer.html

Thanks to the magnificent PR Agency One who are helping us with PR and what not.

Also, thanks to podcast.co, they know everything about podcasting and host us in a fancy studio in Manchester. You can hire it if you’re into that sort of thing.

If you liked what you heard, please drop us a friendly review on iTunes.

Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: [email protected]

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

This is the final episode in a special series in partnership with The Federation, exploring ethics in tech.

In this episode, we talk about 'Functional Sovereignty' with Frank Pasquale.

He talks to us about the concepts in his book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms Behind Money & Information

About Frank:

Frank Pasquale's scholarship and public speaking translates complex law and policy into accessible writing and presentations. His research agenda focuses on challenges posed to information law by rapidly changing technology. He is presently researching a book on automation and the professions.

Frank has testified before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, appearing with the General Counsels of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He has also presented before a Department of Health & Human Services/Federal Trade Commission Roundtable (on personal health records) and panels of the National Academy of Sciences (on ubiquitous sensor networks and the IoT). Frank has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Cardozo Law School. He served as the Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care Regulation and Enforcement at Seton Hall University. Frank is an Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.

Frank has been named to the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Data Competition Institute, Patient Privacy Rights, and the Journal of Legal Education. He has blogged at Concurring Opinions since 2006. His work has been published by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Boston Review, and many other media outlets.

Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans (@rebeccawho), featuring pod regular Greg Ashton (@grgashton)

Produced by @paul_yakabovski

Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: [email protected]

This week find drama, intrigue, mystery and stolen data as the gang delve into what’s going on with Amazon’s HQ, take a look at the folks who have collaborated on a new Charity Digital Code of Practise and find out why Facebook are mad about their data being stolen...lolz.

Joining host Fay Schofield are Greg Ashton, Harry Bailey and Producer Paul.

Things we mentioned:

Stat of the week

Amazon HQ hustle - 6.4 miles

https://www.recode.net/2018/11/9/18077342/amazon-hq2-headquarters-jeff-bezos-dc-ny-virginia-long-island-kara-swisher-scott-galloway

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/14/amazon_hq2/

http://fortune.com/2018/11/21/amazon-new-headquarters-long-island-city-crystal-tech-jobs-half/

Charity news of the week

Charity digital code of practice:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/11/15/charity-digital-code-of-practice-launches/

Assessment “tool”:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/11/16/digital-code-of-practice-assessment-tool-launches/

Digital skills for trustees:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/11/23/the-5-digital-skills-to-look-for-in-your-next-trustee/

Tech news of the week

Unprecedented event as MPs force seizure of documents relating to Cambridge Analytica:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/19/facebook-gives-45m-to-fund-80-local-newspaper-jobs-in-uk-media

And Finally...

The unfortunately named AI and robotics program aiming to help older people (They called it ARIES):

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/11/aries

Thanks to the magnificent PR Agency One who try to make sense of this mess. Also, thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty.

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: [email protected]

The team break free from our Manchester studio and head down south to the glorious Bath Digital Festival.

Regulars @rebeccawho and @jonnyraeevans are joined by Dr Katarzyna (Kathy) Stawarz - Research Associate at University of Bristol and Jessica Lascar - Product Designer at Monzo.

We talk about design ethics and where ethical responsibility should lie when building digital products. That’s not all! Designing with friction, privacy and the flaws in gamification as all feature in this jam-packed episode.

Thanks to the magnificent PR Agency One who try to make sense of this mess, and thanks to Bath Digital Festival for having us.

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: [email protected]

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work?

In this episode we consider Space Age thinking. Which is great - because we love space. We hear that a Blade-Runner-esq future might be on the horizon - and that might not be too bad. Also, and more importantly, we explore the unintended consequences of the Circular Economy.

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This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team.

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

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work?

In this episode we look at the real world examples from some of the UKs biggest retailers. We also find out that Apple have a robot called Daisy that can rip mobile phones apart. But in a good way apparently...

This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team.

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