Tech for Good Live

Jonny was at the wheel this week, so expect hijinks, rambles and plenty of self-deprecation but don’t fear, Ben has returned to deliver his particular style of measured debate...mainly because he wasn’t drinking pints of gin.

This week the gang discuss the benefits of playing on the Trump machine for donations, how people still don’t get how a charity works and some more positive news from one of the big tech players. There’s a rant on codes of conduct and how people just don’t know what to do with them, before we bid farewell to an old robot.

Things we mentioned:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/wildfang-raices-melania-trump-immigration-i-really-care-jacket-a8417091.html

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/06/28/funders-attitudes-determined-by-core-costs/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/ninety-percent-sustainable-ethical-fashion-charity-donate-a8200736.html

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/07/02/tech-trust-and-microsoft-launch-free-ai-workshops-for-charities/

https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/the-honda-asimo-robot-is-being-retired-29-06-2018/

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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This week, sometimes co-host Harry Bailey stepped in to help the team defend their cynicism against the refreshingly positive Tom Passmore of Dsposal. He’s a waste disposal and circular economy genius and luckily for him the stat of the month is all about the horrendous amounts of waste we produce and the ways tech is tackling this torrent.

You’ll also hear about an interesting synergy between cosmetics retailer Lush and Bex’s favourite ethical mobile, Fairphone. Sadly there’s no rant this week, but that’s mainly because the gang got stuck in on some worrying uses for IoT devices and ran out of time. Still managed to talk about bats, bears and penguins...oh my.

If you want to find Tom:

https://dsposal.uk/

@Yourdsposal

Things we mentioned:

https://sidewalktoronto.ca/

https://beta.lush.com/en/article/lush-lens-prototype-launches-in-first-naked-shop-in-milan

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html

https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/06/15/this-dutch-town-uses-high-tech-streetlights-to-keep-their-bats-happy/

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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It's a World Cup Special this week! Well, Bex mentioned the world cup coverage at one point, so that's us doing our bit.

Apart from that, we looked at the reduction in people using social media for news, Facebook helping with blood donations, Google taking a stand on working with the military and presenting us with their principles when it comes to AI development.

What we talked about:

A reduction in the number of people using social for news, 6% in the US: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/digital-news-report-2018.pdf

A shift in attitudes from the platforms to make changes based on ‘civic duty and fear of regulation’: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-platform-press-at-the-heart-of-journalism.php/

Facebook helps blood donations:

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/09/blood-donations-in-india/

The staff at Google prove you can stand up for what you believe in when working in tech: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers

Google's AI principles:

https://ai.google/principles

Using tech for sneaky psychological testing:

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2018/04/pearson_growth_mindset_software.html 

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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

In this episode, we talk about responsibility and data with Aurélie Pols.

Aurélie is a member of the European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS) Ethics Advisory Group(EAG), co-chairs the IEEE’s P7002—Data Privacy Process standard initiative, and serves as a training advisor to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Previously, she served as data governance and privacy advocate for leading data management platform (DMP) Krux Digital Inc. prior to its acquisition by Salesforce. She teaches privacy and ethics at IE Business School in Madrid and Solvay Business School in Brussels. Disclaimer: she hasn’t watched Black Mirror!

Also joining us was the wonderful Dr Reka Solymosi, Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at The University of Manchester.

Hosted by @rebeccawho, featuring pod regular Ben White.

Produced by @paul_yakabovski

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It’s a pod of ups and downs this week, so hang onto your hats as the team drag you through the spectrum from sensible and productive innovations to the disappointing and potentially harmful.

High points include using idle phones on charge for developing cancer treatments (hey Vodaphone, we have some ideas on that) and the brilliant CAST have been developing design principles for charities.

The low is, of course, the rant of the week and the topic of claiming you can build an app, for a charity, in just 3 days.

Spoiler, the team don’t think it can be done.

But they are open to being surprised so listen out for their challenge to test this app, wouldn’t it be fun if they had to eat their words.

Things we mentioned:

https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17385116/mary-meeker-slides-internet-trends-code-conference-2018

https://blog.vodafone.co.uk/2018/05/01/dreamlab-sleeplikeahero/

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/06/04/digital-design-principles-for-the-uk-charity-sector-launched/

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/05/22/not-for-profits-chance-to-have-app-built-for-free/

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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

This episode we’ll be speaking to Mary Mazzio about tech legislation and modern slavery.

Mary joins us to talk about her documentary 'I am Jane Doe' which chronicles the legal battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their daughters, who were trafficked for commercial sex on Backpage.com. It’s a look at how tech can be an enabler of modern slavery without appropriate regulation.

You can catch the documentary now on Netflix

Mary is an Attorney and Award-winning filmmaker with a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from Georgetown Law. She studied film production as a graduate student at Boston University. She is a former partner with the law firm of Brown Rudnick in Boston.

Also mentioned: https://www.iamlittlered.com

Hosted by @rebeccawho

Featuring pod regulars:

@grgashton

@jonnyraeevans

Produced by @paul_yakabovski

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The fifth and final episode of our series of podcasts recorded live at Camp Digital 2018 in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. 

In this episode we are joined for a chat by the fireside by Molly Watt.

Molly is an Accessibility and Usability consultant and inclusive technology evangelist.

Living with a genetic condition called Usher syndrome, causing deafblindness, Molly is completely reliant upon and benefits from using mainstream assistive technology.

Consequently, she is passionate about working in the world of digital accessibility, website accessibility and usability, patient participation and healthcare. Molly actively promotes the use of assistive technologies and the importance of website accessibility and inclusivity.

She has spoken widely about these subjects around the world, including at Harvard Medical school, the House of Commons, Apple HQ in Cupertino, Apple Corporate in Sydney and QCon in San Francisco alongside Sigma's Chris Bush. Molly is co-founder of the charity Molly Watt Trust, supporting those with Usher syndrome, and she runs her own company, Molly Watt Ltd, serving as an active ambassador and advocate for MWT and GN Resound.

You can find her on Twitter @MollyWattTalks & her website

Interviewed by Greg Ashton - Researcher, strategist, geek and habitual complainer. After years of helping sell stuff that people don't need he's turned to good and now works as a Digital Strategist at pro-social digital agency, Reason Digital @grgashton

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The fourth in a five episode series of podcasts recorded live at Camp Digital 2018 in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. 

In this episode we are joined for a chat by the fireside by Ben Leonard from META, discussing his views on financial services, digital ethics and privacy by design. 

Ben founded META (methinkact.co.uk) in 2017 to help people help themselves. META’s mission is to accelerate how data is used to empower people.

Prior to META, Ben spent 18 years in Investment Banking at HSBC leading a number of businesses. Most recently, he was Co-Head of the UK Financial Services team where he advised clients on Strategy, Operational & Regulatory change and Capital Raising.

Ben also spent time working with the UK Retail Business and the Pension Fund at HSBC, engaging with Treasury & the FCA on the Financial Advice Market Review and playing a core role in HSBC's involvement in the Pension Dashboard project.

Interviewed by Ben White - Head of Delivery at pro-social digital agency, Reason Digital. He’s worked in charity, government and theme restaurants, but always ends up messing about with computers. @benwhiteba

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

This episode we’ll be speaking about bias in technology and Safiya Umjola Noble’s book Algorithms of Oppression algorithmsofoppression.com

With:

@safiyanoble

@herahussain

And regulars:

@benwhiteba

@rebeccawho

and producer paul_yakabovski

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