Tech for Good Live

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

If you’re new here, it’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact. My main advice for any new listeners tuning in is to stop listening right now. Honestly, we’re not worth your time.

If you do decide to stick around though, we’ve some interesting stories in this week’s episode.

We’re talking about a new report into the dangers of Facebook’s encryption plans. Greenpeace wants you to help count some plastic. And, in a shocking development, Amazon continues to be absolute ass-hats. In their crosshairs this week… unions.

Host Bex is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Fay Schofield.

Our special guest this week is Joe Friel. Joe is co-founder of Yalla, a collective of web developers, designers, project managers and strategists. Yalla work with non-profit and impact-driven businesses across the UK, Gaza and Germany.

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

New report from non-profit, Business for Social Responsibility, states Facebook's expansion of encryption would do more good than harm:

Meta’s encryption plan has human rights benefits, report says - Washington Post

Charity news of the week

New Greenpeace campaign asks for the public's help to understand what plastic we're using and throwing away:

The Big Plastic Count 

Tech news of the week

First Amazon union formed in the US, Amazon is obviously fighting this and has plans to block words like "Union" in its internal messaging app:

 ‘A marathon, not a sprint’: how Chris Smalls defied Amazon to form a union - The Guardian 

Amazon says New York union organizers gave workers weed to help secure unionization votes - Insider 

These are the words Amazon’s planned employee chat app reportedly won’t let you say - The Verge 

Nice of the week 

Advancing Healthcare Awards

Robot Cat Cam

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Welcome to the Tech for Good Live Podcast.

We’re back for our second season of 2022 and we’re talking about greenwashing, bitcoin, climate denial, Facebook, and privacy - so the usual shit show.

Host Bex is joined by TFGL regular Greg Ashton and Producer Paul.

Our special guest this week is Nikki Bell, co-founder of Fundraising Everywhere. 

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

Number of adverts banned for ‘greenwashing’ triples in a year - Independent 

Charity news of the week

Bitcoin’s massive energy use faces $5M shame campaign from environmental groups - ARS Technica 

Tech news of the week

New EU law sets up a fight between interoperability and privacy

Is the end nigh for end-to-end encryption? - Guardian 

Facebook drives sceptics towards climate denial - BBC News 

And there was a "bug" which was promoting misinformation rather than blocking it:

‘Massive ranking failure’ meant Facebook showed users nudity, violence, and Russian misinformation - Independent 

Nice of the week 

A Kirby song cover just won a Grammy - The Verge

And finally…

You can enjoy sushi in VR and there's something called a "butter device"!

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TFGL2022 Season 2 kicks off next week and we'll be joined by a bunch of great people from the third sector and beyond to discuss the latest developments in the world of tech for good (and let's be honest, tech for bad).

We'll be here with fresh episodes every Thursday from April 7th.

As you may expect, a fair bit of our time in this episode will be spent looking at stories related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Vladimir Putin continues to roll his tanks into a free, sovereign Ukraine.

We look at ways you can support Ukraine and discuss social media and propaganda.

And we also take a look at some other stories, like charity recommendations for how to reduce food waste.

Joining host Bex and TFGL team member Greg Ashton we have a returning special guest! Beth Wiltshire, based in Brussels and working on digital, tech and space policy and democratic innovation. 

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

Ukraine asks for support through crypto donations and had now raised $20 million as of Monday 28th Feb:

Ukraine raises millions in crypto donations 'to destroy as many Russian soldiers as we can' - Sky News 

Crypto Donations to Ukraine Jump to $20M - Coindesk 

Some are taking more direct action:

Anonymous launches cyber war on Russia and has disabled several websites - Metro 

Bloomberg Instagram post

Charity news of the week

14,000,000 shopping baskets full of food waste could be saved along with 1,110 truck loads of plastic if organisations follow sustainability charity, WRAPS, 3 recommendations:

Reducing household food waste and plastic packaging - WRAP

Tech news of the week

Social media and modern warfare:

Is Russia winning the disinformation war in Ukraine? - New Scientist

The first TikTok war: how are influencers in Russia and Ukraine responding? - The Guardian 

Ukraine invasion: Russia restricts social media access - BBC news 

Tech companies rally to help their teams in Ukraine:

Tech companies mobilise plans to help employees in Ukraine - Metro 

And finally…

$4.37 billion sale of offshore wind farm in the US shows a huge financial shift to renewables - Upstream Online

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

Lame Crypto Boys – get your complaint emails ready for us because we’re going to be talking about the £300million in bitcoin that the UK Police have seized in the last 5 years. Totally not a ponzi scheme.

We talk about how those old white racist folks’ attacks on “woke” charities have failed.

Apple and Android have united. Well, kind of, in a way. Apparently the staff are secretly unionising. I mean if we’ve heard about it, it’s not very secret, but yay for unions in the tech industry.

Bex is back as host and she’s joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Hera Hussain.

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

Police in the UK have seized 300 million in bitcoin in the last 5 years:

Cryptocurrency crimes have got too big for the US government to ignore - New Scientist

Charity news of the week

Attack on "woke" charities has failed… Or did it really ever start?

  Attack on ‘woke’ charities has backfired, campaigners say - The Guardian

Tech news of the week

Apple employees use Android to plan unionisation secretly: 

Apple's retail employees are reportedly using Android phones and encrypted chats to keep unionization plans secret - Android Police 

What does the future hold for employment law with the metaverse (paywall but basic premise is do normal employment laws apply):

Metaverse vs employment law: the reality of the virtual workplace - Financial Times

And finally…

Have you been feeling suerza or sounder recently? 

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

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Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! This week we’re heading out into the open ocean of tech for good as we’re chatting about plant based foods, hacking and advertising. Oh buoy! 

Joining host Fay Schofield is TFGL pod regular Greg Ashton.

Our special guest for this episode is Becky Steeden, Strategic Social Media Manager at the RNLI 

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

Increases in sales of plant based food hasn't lead to a reduction in meat based sales:

Big Food is ready to sell you more plant-based meat - Vox 

Charity news of the week

Charities are open to hacking because they don't have the money to prevent it:

Humanitarian organizations keep getting hacked because they can’t spend to secure data - Rest of World

Tech news of the week

Facebook and Mozilla to team up on a new method for online advertising:

Mozilla and Meta (Facebook) are now actually working together - XDA Developers

Oh and they've renamed the News Feed, now it's just Feed:

Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years - The Verge 

And finally…

‘Thanks to everyone at Asda’: success for anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. - The Guardian

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Apply for Becky's (soon to be) old job! 

jobs.rnli - Strategic Social Media Manager

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Welcome to Tech for Good Live. In this episode we are talking about carbon footprints, how far companies go to “brag”, Meta making plans to tackle harassment and charities jumping into NFTs. 

Hera Hussain is on hosting duties and she’s joined by Greg Ashton and Dama Sathianathan.

Our special guest this week is Catherine Woodiwiss, former journalist who is now a designer researching selfies & self-construction.

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week (GREG)

By 2015 the richest 10% were responsible for 49% of the world's carbon emissions:

Carbon footprint gap’ between rich and poor expanding, study finds. - The Guardian 

And companies are exaggerating their progress: 

Climate change: Top companies exaggerating their progress - study - BBC News

Charity news of the week 

WWF received backlash for using NFTs for fundraising:

WWF-UK faces backlash over plan to sell NFTs to fund conservation work - Climate Home News 

The Internet is just investment banking now - The Atlantic 

Tech news of the week

From the company who perfected harassment at a distance, Meta/Facebook introducing distancing to 'prevent' harassment in the metaverse:

Meta is adding a ‘personal boundary’ to VR avatars to stop harassment - The Verge 

Sounds like their vision of the metaverse isn't translating into dollars though:

For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble? - The Guardian

Oh and they might turn their services off of they don't get their way in Europe:

Meta (FB) May Shut Down Facebook, Instagram in Europe Over GDPR Data Rules - Bloomberg

Nice of the week x2!

Wingspan Boardgame

Despite Don’t Look Up’s doomsdaying about tech billionaires (and governments, media) … NASA scientists are working hard successfully stop asteroids, actually! 

The quest to avert an asteroid apocalypse is going surprisingly well - Vox

And finally…

Nuclear fusion is getting closer:

Scientists break through major milestone in harnessing fusion energy - Independent  

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Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! If you're new here and you’re wondering what the hell you’ve stumbled into, we’re a bunch of pals that gather together once a week to talk about technology being used to make the world a better place. 

This week, we’re talking about data anonymisation, privacy, ethics and mental health, and the growing world of NFTs. 

TFGL Team members Hera Hussain and Harriet Pugh are joined by our special guest Zoë Firth, Project Lead at Chayn

Stat of the week 

If you’ve been wondering why people have been cancelling their subscriptions, this is the reason!

270 health experts to Spotify: Joe Rogan’s Covid misinformation is ‘a sociological issue of devastating proportions’

Charity news of the week

Last week, The Crisis Text Line was in the news when Politico shared that the suicide and crisis helpline based in the US, was selling anonymised data from its conversation with texters to train a chatbot for customer service run by it’s for-profit spin off, Loris.ai. 

Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions - Politico

After causing an outrage in the data science, human rights and ethics space - especially on twitter - the charity announced THIS WEEK they will no longer be selling data to Loris.ai.

Crisis Text Line stops sharing conversation data with AI company - The Verge 

Tech news of the week

NFTs are the rage! Do you know what they are?

This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address - VIce

Would you buy a home in the metaverse? - FT

Crypto queens: Women stake out space in blockchain world - Reuters

Women Rise 

Rant of the week 

Google Illegally Used Dark Patterns to Trick Users Into Handing Over Location Data, State AGs Say - Gizmodo

And finally…

The New York Times Buys Wordle 

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Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! If you're new here and you’re wondering what the hell you’ve stumbled into, we’re a bunch of pals that gather together once a week to talk about technology being used to make the world a better place. Well, in all honesty, we often end up talking about tech being used for evil but “Tech for Bad Live” isn’t as catchy is it?! And there are still glimmers of hope out there of wonderful people doing amazing things with tech.

So as we soldier on into murky corridors of tech, this week we are talking about the food price index, a new internal aid charity campaign, fancy offices and dogs!

Tech for Good Live pod regular Greg Ashton joins host Fay Schofield and our special guest this week is Louise Pavoni, Digital Engagement Manager at  Leukaemia UK.

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

The CPI and the retail price index (RPI) are used interchangeably to document the rising price levels of groceries and household goods across the UK. Yet they only tell a fragment of the story of inflation, and grossly underestimate the true cost-of-living crisis. In 2012, 10 stock cubes from Sainsbury’s Basics range were 10p. In 2022, those same stock cubes are 39p, but only available in chicken or beef. The cheapest vegetable stock cubes are, inexplicably, £1 for 10. 

We’re pricing the poor out of food in the UK – that’s why I’m launching my own price index - The Guardian

Charity news of the week

Major international aid charities combine forces in a new campaign "We the helpers".

UK international aid charities unite in major awareness building campaign - UK Fundraising

Tech news of the week

Even the guy who designed Google's headquarters thinks "fancy" tech office are a bad idea:

The man behind Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters says fancy tech offices are ‘dangerous’ - SFGATE 

Google nest are trying to gamify saving energy:

Nest Renew - Google 

Nice of the week 

AI tech to monitor depression - Thymia

And finally…

#DronesForGood dog saved from rising tide by a sausage dangled from a drone:

Stranded dog saved from rising tide after rescuers attach sausage to drone - The Guardian 

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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 to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! In case you’re new here, it’s a podcast all about the use of technology for social good. Although, we seem to spend most of our time talking about technology that is the absolute worst.

In this episode we’re talking about deepfakes, Tom Cruise, and, potentially, the death of truth on the internet. We discuss culture wars, and we learn more about the recent Roblox scandal. 

Joining host Bex we have Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton and Jonny Rae-Evans

Our special guest this week is Lex, Co-Founder & Design Director at COMUZI, a design studio building future-positive digital products, services & experiences.

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week 

78% of people could not distinguish the deepfake from authentic content even when given a warning they could be viewing a fake:

Tom Cruise test shows people can’t detect fake videos even when they know they are fake - Independent  

Charity news of the week

Charities will be most successful in dealing with government culture wars when they work to create consensus:

Culture wars' a key political driver for charities in the year ahead, NCVO predicts - Third Sector

Tech news of the week

Roblox is a community built gaming platform that is accused of exploiting its creators. Not uncommon but these creators are children:

The trouble with Roblox, the video game empire built on child labour - The Guardian 

And finally…

32nd Human Rights Watch report noted that autocrats faced a significant backlash in 2021, with millions of people taking to the streets in countries like Brazil, Hungary and Uganda. It also highlighted the trend for opposition parties to form coalitions to challenge autocrats, citing the Czech Republic and Israel as places where this has succeeded. Similar alliances have been formed in Hungary and Turkey. 

Human Rights Watch World Report 2022 

D&AD Impact awards open for applications  https://www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-impact/ 

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