Tech for Good Live

Classic Pod antics this week with the original gang taking time to talk about the government's lack of professionalism in their approach to research. Plus there's some more Blockchain news, developments in hearing aid tech, fingerprints from photos and an unusually brief rant.

Things we mentioned:

MISSING EVIDENCE: An inquiry into the delayed publication of government commissioned research

http://senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Missing-Evidence.pdf

Aidchain - blockchain payment gateway

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/04/20/blockchain-charity-donation-platform-launched/

Next-Gen hearing aids:

https://www.cnet.com/news/hearing-aids-now-theyre-internet-ai-and-health-devices-starkey-oticon-harman-bose/?sf186388622=1

Fingerprint recognition from photos

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/15/britains-first-whatsapp-fingerprint-conviction-leads-flood-new/

Jack’s dream day as a mascot for Everton:

https://www.noisolation.com/uk/news/av1-everton/

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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As the weekly pod attendance gets more out of hand, Bex and Greg are joined by friends of the pod Kirsty Styles and Harry Bailey. The guest this week is a fantastic last minute stand in from Beth Wiltshire from the Democracy Society, self proclaimed tech novice and owner of an iPhone 3.

This week the gang are looking at whether blockchain is all that, the benefits of user-generated content, smart cities and some unplanned and fairly lengthy political discussion. Bex playing fast and loose with the timekeeping after her break.

They end the show on why social good projects should be sharing information more rather than wasting money solving the same problems and why science mistakes are great for the environment.

If you’d like to get in touch with Beth

@EGwiltshire

@demsoc

www.demsoc.org

Things we mentioned:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/04/13/report-reveals-orgs-using-blockchain-social-impact/

https://lightful.com/blog/content/how-uniteforparkinsons-is-a-masterclass-in-user-generated-content/

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/04/11/video-blog-website-long-term-health-conditions-launch/

https://en.reset.org/blog/tvilight-smart-street-lights-turn-when-nobody-around-04162018

https://www.thebetterindia.com/119066/manipal-students-devise-a-green-billboard-that-purifies-air/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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This shambles of a pod goes extra shambolic this week as mum and dad leave the kids in charge. That’s right, Bex and Jonny are away leaving Greg to stumble his way through presenting this pod but it’s not all bad, you finally get the pleasure of hearing more from Producer Paul and Mille Vardheim, who has more than just her knowledge of bins to share.

Expect the gang to dispel the ‘digital native’ myth, agree wholeheartedly that online campaigns have got out of hand and incredibly briefly touch on drones for medical supplies. It’s once again Ben’s turn to have a rant and lucky for you he has one prepared on HiPPO stereotypes before rambling into a description of the next Black Panther, a touching tale of a king trying to guide his country through a digital transformation project.

Things we mentioned:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/04/06/report-challenges-assumptions-youth-digital/

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/04/04/report-reveals-pitfalls-clicktivism-mass-email-petitioning/

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/04/02/alexa-users-can-now-donate-more-40-charities-using-their-voice

https://www.cnet.com/news/zipline-new-delivery-drones-fly-medical-supplies-faster-farther/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

Music by @geekytom

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You asked for it (probably) and the team are delivering, this is the first weekly Tech for Good Live podcast. These will be a little shorter, so expect 45 minutes of compact rants and digital news.

To mark this auspicious occasion the team are all back together recording in their new studio with data wizard Julian Tait, CEO of Open Data MCR. Expect him and Greg to have a little bromance over GDPR throughout.

Featured this month are Google questionable research funding practises, charity donations for kids and a wonderful new way for families to spy on their elderly relatives.

If you’d like to get in touch with Julian:

@opendatamcr

http://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/

Things we mentioned:

https://campaignforaccountability.org/work/googles-academic-influence-in-europe/ 

https://readie.eu/what-we-do/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/30/new-america-foundation-google-funding-firings

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/03/16/pocket-money-giving-app-boosts-offering/

https://www.youralcove.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/science/robot-fish.html

Music by @geekytomGet in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: [email protected]

It's International Women's Day so we’ve decided to do something different from our usual podcast. We decided to shut up.

This podcast is a chance for you to hear the stories of what it is like to be a woman working in tech today. These are first hand stories. They are true. And we should all listen and reflect.

Thank you to everyone who has shared their stories, and to thank everyone in the sector who is working day in day out to make this stop.

And thanks to our wonderful voice actors for donating their time to this, Anna, Mills, Rose, Fay and Kirsty.

Links:

Open Heroines - https://openheroines.org

MCR Live - https://www.mcr.live

The Federation - http://www.thefederation.coop

Omidyar - https://www.omidyar.com

Music: Three Thousand Men In White Coats - Shadow Priest 

The third and final podcast in our special edition series of Tech for Good Live podcasts, recorded from UX Copenhagen. (@uxcopenhagen)

It’s a two day conference on ethical design and we’re here, bringing you three podcasts looking across a range of topics: Accessibility, dark patterns and design ethics.

In this podcast, we talk about design ethics.

With tech for good live regulars:

Ben White - Head of Delivery at pro-social digital agency, Reason Digital (@benwhiteba/ @reasondigital)

Rebecca Rae-Evans - Looking after digital ethics at The Federation (@rebeccawho/ @federationmcr)

Jonny Rae-Evans - Head of Product Innovation at the Big Lottery Fund (@jonnyraeevans)

And special Guest:

Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design, a San Francisco based design agency. Besides sharing his knowledge at conferences all over the world, he has written 2 popular books, “Design is a job” and “You’re My Favorite Client”.

Where to find Mike: https://muledesign.com/speaking/mike-monteiro 

The second in our special edition series of Tech for Good Live podcasts, recorded from UX Copenhagen. (@uxcopenhagen)

It’s a two day conference on ethical design and we’re here, bringing you three podcasts looking across a range of topics: Accessibility, dark patterns and design ethics.

In this podcast, we talk about the ethics of selling to people and dark patterns.

With tech for good live regulars:

Ben White - Head of Delivery at pro-social digital agency, Reason Digital (@benwhiteba / @reasondigital)

Rebecca Rae-Evans - Looking after digital ethics at The Federation (@rebeccawho / @federationmcr)

Special Guests:

Martin Ibsen - Digital director of design-people ( @MartinIbsen )

David Dylan Thomas - Creator and host of the Cognitive Bias Podcast and a senior experience designer at Think Company (@movie_pundit )

The first in a special edition series  of Tech for Good Live podcasts, recorded from UX Copenhagen. (@uxcopenhagen)

It’s a two day conference on ethical design and we’re here, bringing you three podcasts looking across a range of topics. Accessibility, dark patterns and design ethics.

In this podcast, we talk accessibility and inclusive design. We talk about the best and the worst in the sector and the latest developments.

With regulars:

Rebecca (Bex) Rae-Evans - looking after digital ethics at The Federation (@Rebeccawho)

Jonny Rae-Evans - Head of Product Innovation at the Big Lottery Fund (@jonnyraeevans)

And with special guests:

Eriol Fox - from Ushahidi, open sources crowd mapping platform for human rights activists and crisis response. Founded in Kenya in response to violence around the elections - to raise marginalised voices. (@EriolDoesDesign / @ushahidi)

Molly Watt -  is a prolific advocate of inclusive technology. She specializes in assistive technology and design for those with sensory impairment (@MollyWattTalks)

Greg was away for this episode - so there was much chaos. Thankfully, Harry Bailey (@harrybailey) stepped in.

We also had a guest - the wonderful Simon Collison (@colly).

In this episode:Bex hurt Jonny’s feelings - because he’s not as good as Greg.

Simon knows a LOT about hedgehogs.

A disturbing amount of charities do not have a digital strategy. Trump might use Deepfakes for nefarious reasons (shock). The gang flawlessly plan Simon’s murder, and Ben thinks that the entire podcast is FAKE NEWS.

Simon has the answer to all of this - Keep Quincy Jones alive.
Yeah, it got weird.

Our next podcast will be at UX Copenhagen. Follow along at #TfGLonTour

Things in this episode:

58% of charities do not have a digtial strategy

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/01/17/58-of-charities-do-not-have-a-digital-strategy-reveals-tech-trust/

Major movement to reclaim social media “for good”:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/02/06/major-movement-to-reclaim-social-media-for-good-inspires-thousands-of-positive-tweets-and-posts/

Apparent shock at YouTube being sh*theads:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/05/senator-warns-youtube-algorithm-may-be-open-to-manipulation-by-bad-actors

Former Facebook and Google employees aim to combat tech addiction:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/05/tech-addiction-former-facebook-google-employees-campaign

Applied futurist, tech commentator, author, and all round nice guy Tom Cheesewright joins the team on our first pod of 2018. Don’t worry, this isn’t another Meltdown/Spectre winge session, no no, the team are back to their familiar ‘whipping boy’ as they assess yet another failure by Facebook to protect its users.

There’s also stats on ‘customer satisfaction’ for charities, Socks for Satan, contactless pay points from Goodbox and a jolly little security drone from Japan. Well, Greg thinks it’s jolly.

If you’d like to get in touch with Tom:

https://bookofthefuture.co.uk/

@bookofthefuture

Things we mentioned:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/01/02/macmillan-tops-charity-customer-satisfaction-table/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/indyventure/goodbox-charity-donations-cashless-society-a8061586.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/satanist-church-pensacola-west-florida-holds-drive-socks-homeless-collect-charity-pagan-a7639881.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/05/tough-new-german-law-puts-tech-firms-and-free-speech-in-spotlight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42560688

https://news.sky.com/story/addicts-warned-facebook-groups-are-not-anonymous-11197078

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/this-japanese-drone-sends-workers-home-on-time

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