Tech for Good Live

Hello and welcome back to a new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact. 

And of course that means that this week we are talking about knitting. Apparently some tech dudes bought knitting.com and it sounds like they’re the absolute worst. 

Tom Hanks continues to show his range. He’s leapt into a volcano, he’s dated a mermaid, he got really big that one time, and now he’s selling dental plans online. Only, it’s not really him. We discuss the implications of AI and owning our own identities. 

Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski

Our special guest for the next couple of episodes is Aurelie Lionet. Aurelie is a seasoned Service Designer and one of the four co-founding members of Design Declares, which is a group of designers working together to declare a climate and ecological emergency. They’re committed to building a community and creating resources to adapt design practice towards climate action and regeneration. 

Good story of the week:

Knitters vs the tech bros

The all-out revolt against Knitting.com helps explain boycotts at Reddit and Etsy - Quartz

Bad news story of the week:

AI Tom Hanks promoting “some dental plan”

Beware the AI-generated Tom Hanks. - The Verge 

And finally

4.5m tall, 3.5ton £2.5 million robot suit

Japan startup unveils 15-foot robot suit for space exploration - The Independent 

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. 

Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski

In this episode we chat to Nicki Clegg from STEM Learning UK, finding out more about STEM Learning UK’s vision to have a world-leading STEM education for every young person in the UK.

Links from the chat:

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

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We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. 

In this episode we are talking about some good news for environmental activists, as well as the good, and the bad of social media… and is it possible to have any kind of decent balance there?

Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski

Our special guest this time round is Nicki Clegg from STEM Learning UK. Nikki will be discussing our news topics with us this week. Come back for the next episode where we will be finding out more about STEM Learning UK’s vision to have a world-leading STEM education for every young person in the UK.

Good story of the week:

Some good news on the environment front. 16 young people win a court case in Montana, holding the state to account for failing to protect the environment and investing in fossil fuels.

Young people who sued their state over climate change notch their first victory - The Verge 

And analysis shows we've been overestimating the amount of plastic in our oceans by as much as 30x!

Analysis Shows We’ve Been Overestimating the Amount of Plastic in Oceans by 30x - Good News Network 

Bad news story of the week:

If you're over a certain age Tik Tok is the source of all our current evils. At least on social media. But is it that simple? With social media in a time of change, can we balance the good with the bad on social media? Is the human race even capable of not making a mess of it?

TikTok has its faults, but it’s also diverse, eye-opening and completely full of life - The Guardian 

TikTok users in UK to be left with ‘more toxic’ version of app, say campaigners - The Guardian 

And finally…

Cooking just got a whole lot easier…especially if weapons of mass destruction are on the menu

AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread sandwich” - Ars Technica

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast about tech being used for good, but also how it’s being used for bad and how that needs to stop, please and thank you. 

Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski

Our special guest is Rachel Pattinson from Open Lab at Newcastle University, which is a world-leading research group in interaction design and ubiquitous computing.

In this episode we talk to Rachel in more detail about all things uni, research, academia and using tech for social good.

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast about tech being used for good, but also how it’s being used for bad and how that needs to stop, please and thank you. 

In this episode we are talking about charity donation trends, online identity and Billion Dollar Barbie. 

Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski

Our special guest to talk about this week's news items is Rachel Pattinson from Open Lab at Newcastle University, which is a world-leading research group in interaction design and ubiquitous computing.

Join us for the next episode where we talk to Rachel in more detail about all things uni, research, academia and using tech for social good.

Good story of the week:

A good mood might be the key to donations:

People who donate to charity seem to have one thing in common - Quartz 

Bad news story of the week:

Online identity and tokenisation is picking up interest in tech again. But are the tech bros the right people to solve digital identity?

Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project - The Verge 

Are you ready to have your identity tokenized? - Quartz 

And finally:

Greta Gerwig is first female director $1 billion at the box office:

Greta Gerwig becomes the first female director to make $1billion at the box office - Far Out

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about the ways technology does good in the world.

Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team member Greg Ashton.

Our special guest this week is Dan Owen. 

Dan is a trustee and developer at BanktheFood, a charity on a mission to ensure food banks always have exactly what they need and not just baked beans.

In this episode, Dan tells us all about his journey with BanktheFood, from an idea presented to him by a bunch of eager school children, to becoming an award winner at the recent Tech4Good Awards.

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about the ways technology does good in the world.

We’ll be talking about Threads, obviously. It would be weird not to and we’ll be looking into  how some decisions being made in the US courts are affecting tech. 

Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski

Our special guest this week is Dan Owen. 

Dan is a trustee and developer at BanktheFood, a charity on a mission to ensure food banks always have exactly what they need and not just baked beans. In this episode, Dan will give us his thoughts on the latest news, but tune in to next week's episode to hear more about the amazing work he is doing with BanktheFood, an award winner at the recent Tech4Good Awards.

This week’s topics:

Good story of the week:

It's goodish news for now because it seems everyone is being nice on Threads. Zuckerberg's Twitter Killer:

Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news - Guardian 

But is it all bollocks?

 Zuckerberg’s kindness pledge for Threads is ‘absurd’, says Molly Russell charity - Guardian 

Bad news story of the week:

Seems the courts are going full Atwood in America:

Let's take a look at those US Supreme Court decisions and how they will affect tech - The Register 

Biden administration seeks emergency order halting ban on social media company contacts - Reuters 

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Hello and welcome back to yet another season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about the ways technology does good in the world.

Starting from next week, we’ve got a jam packed season for you, delving into all things tech and good. And bad.

You’ll hear from Dan at BanktheFood. We’ll be talking to Phyllida Swift from Face Equality International, Rachel Pattinson from Open Lab at Newcastle Uni and Nicky Clegg will joining us from STEM Learning 

We are looking forward to all of that and hope you are too! 

In the meantime, we have something a little different for you for this bonus episode.

We often chat to our wonderful guests, but we don’t often tell you much about our team, other than of course important things like what their favourite pizza topping is, or if they were a cartoon character which would it be… so today we chat to the team with a series of mini interviews.

Who you will hear (and when) :

Tom Passmore (from 02:00)

Tom tells us about his work with Dsposal, and their mission to make managing waste easier for everyone. If you want to hear more from Tom and his exploration of the Circular Economy, check out our special podcast series all about it. 

Harry Bailly (from 08:50)

As an agility coach, Harry tells us about his work training tech teams of all sizes, helping to improve agility, boost productivity and supporting wellbeing through mentoring, pair coding and process improvement.

Fay Scofield (from 17:15)

Fay is the founder of Catnip Comms: A social media consultancy with a focus on charities. She tells us all about the trials and tribulations of running a social media consultancy in the modern social media era.

Paul Jakubowski (from 25:08)

Producer Paul talks about his move to Norway and his work with No Isolation, and their mission to bring people together through warm technology and knowledge. There's a mention for an old TFGL favorite, the AV1 telepresence robot for managing persistent school absence, and Komp, the one button computer connecting generations. 

Greg Ashton (from 33:30)

Podcast research supremo Greg talks about his journey from the toxic toy industry to working as a Service Designer for the Department for Work and Pensions.

Rebecca Rae-Evans (from 41:40)

And finally, our host has the mic turned on her. She tells us about her return to the service designer world, after years of running and managing tech for good focussed design teams.

Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about using technology for social good.

If you listened to the last episode you will have heard from our wonderful guest Scott Casson-Rennie as he joined us for our news round up. 

We are delighted to say that we have more time with Scott today where we can get to know him a little bit better and we’ll be talking all things fostering, adoption and technology.

About Scott:

Scott is, amongst other things, COO of NGO FASD Ireland and host of the A and F podcast exploring adoption and fostering and other related topics.

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This is the last episode of the current season, we’ll be back in July with more news and more guests including a Tech4Good Award winner and Rachel Pattinson from the Open lab at Newcastle University

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.

Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. 

In this episode we are talking about a Manchester-based startup that’s trying to use data and AI to stop child labour. Primark and Apple will be delighted. We also take a look at the rise of religious versions of ChatGPT.

Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team member Greg Ashton.

Our special guest joining us to talk about our news stories this week is Scott Casson-Rennie, who is, amongst other things, COO of NGO FASD Ireland and host of the A and F podcast exploring adoption and fostering and other related topics.

Tune in to the next episode where we get to know more about Scott.

Good story of the week:

Manchester UK based startup is trying to use data and AI to stop child labour:

Data driven solutions to eradicate child labour in supply chains - HACE 

Bad news story of the week:

Worrying rise of religious versions of ChatGPT including GitaGPT, BibleGPT and Ask Quran:

India’s religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god — and condoning violence - Rest of World 

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

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

We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast!

Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. 

Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.