Tech for Good Live

Happy new year and welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast!

It’s our very first episode of the year and what a great one we've got lined up for you. We're talking about why it’s so hard to regulate algorithms, a new government backed disabled passenger charter, the world’s obsession with Wordle and the inspiring story of Preet Chandi and her trip to the south pole.

Joining host Fay Schofield on this voyage into 2022 we have TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Hera Hussain

Our special guest is Alex Blandford. Alex is the Lead Product Manager at the University of Cambridge.

Links from the show:

Stat of the week 

Of 40 bills designed to regulate automated decision making in the US, only 1 has passed. And that was a task force whose recommendations have been ignored:

Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Algorithms - The Markup

Charity news of the week

Government teams with charity Scope on Disabled Persons Passenger Charter for bus, coach, taxi, private hire vehicle and rail

Government teams with charity Scope on Disabled Persons Passenger Charter - Gov.uk 

Tech news of the week

Are tech marketers desperate to make the metaverse a thing?

Samsung’s CES 2022 showcase includes a metaverse experience we didn’t ask for - The Verge 

Metaverse Hype Permeates CES 2022 Tech Show - Investor's Business Daily

And finally…

Preet Chandi, first woman of colour to make a solo trip to the south pole - Channel 4

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Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. In this special episode we chat to the people behind GM-THINK. There’ll be talk of commissioning tech, data collection, and collaborating between multiple cross sector organisations. All of this is to ensure we can support those who need it most.

GM-THINK is a multi-agency database that lets services across Greater Manchester share information quickly and securely. The system makes it easy for organisations to coordinate the work they do with people who have multiple and complex needs.

Host Rebecca Rae-Evans is joined by: 

Abbie - Development Officer at Inspiring Change Manchester

Jackie - ICM Programme Manager

Neil - GMThink Co-chair

Grace - RealSystems Customer Success Lead.

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Hello and welcome to the Tech for Good Live podcast. This is a podcast all about how we might use tech for positive social impact. This is a special episode featuring recordings from the Tech for Good module run at the National University of Ireland Galway in 2020 by Bex and Jonny from our team. 

In the podcast you’ll be hearing from the students on their thoughts on dealing with propaganda misinformation, data and privacy. 

The show is produced and hosted by Kristiana Zunde. She is joined by Bex-Rae Evans. Bex is a Tech for Good Live podcast regular and she ran the module for the students at NUI Galway. 

And they’re joined by Sheila Malone. Sheila is a lecturer in Marketing at NUI Galway. 

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

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Hello and welcome to yet another, in a seemingly endless stream of Tech for Good Live podcasts. It’s a show where a bunch of friends get together and talk about how to use technology to have a positive social impact.

In this episode we’re talking about how you can’t trust anything you see on Instagram, especially if someone is telling you they’re going to plant a tree.

We discuss the extraordinary demand that’s going to be placed on charity services this winter. And we chat about a new digital project to help support people with “atypical” speech.

Joining host Bex Rae-Evans we have podcast regular Greg Ashton and Tech For Good Live team member Harriet Pugh.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week 

4 million people posted a picture of their pet to Instagram with the sticker "we'll plant tree for every pet picture" and as we now know, zero trees will be planted - Twitter

Charity news of the week

Tough days ahead for charities?

Charities facing a 'perfect storm' as demand rises - BBC News

Tech news of the week

An actually great project from Google to help people with atypical speech

Google's Project Relate Aims to Help People With Atypical Speech Communicate - PC Magazine

And finally…

Chinese farm uses facial recognition tech to stop goats getting incestuous - Metro

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Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We’ve an action packed agenda this week. We’re talking about Stop Funding Heat and climate misinformation on Facebook. 

In charity news of the week we discuss the way that terror attacks are reported on the news.

Facebook is overhauling the facial recognition on its platform due to fears of “misuse”. If Facebook is worried, it must be bad.

And we end on a heart warming story about a soothing radio for dogs on bonfire night.

Host Bex is joined by Tech for Good Live podcast team members Greg Ashton and Jonny Rae-Evans.

Our special guest is Andrew Wilding-Smith, Product lead at Parkinsons UK.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week 

An estimated range of 818,000 and 1.36 million daily views of climate misinformation on Facebook. Up to 13.6 times more views of misinformation than Facebook claims to send to its Climate Science Center:

#InDenial – Facebook’s Growing Friendship With Climate Misinformation - Stop Funding Heat 

Charity news of the week

Survivors against terror call for changes to the way the media report on terror attacks - The Guardian

Tech news of the week

Facebook ends facial recognition on its platform and deletes records citing the potential risks of misuse - The Guardian

And yet they can't protect children - MSN

And finally…

Soothing music for our furry friends over bonfire night - Oxford Mail

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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 to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. Much like the climate crisis, we just keep getting worse and no-one in power seems to have the appetite to stop us, but this episode looks like it might be an alright one really. Above average anyway.

COP26 is happening in Glasgow, where all the world leaders get together and decide to doom us all because of, well, their own profit margins. So, we’re talking about a load of environment related stories.

We discuss the economic impact of climate change. Because we’re fun, cool people.

We also talk about an international attempt to stop deforestation, making Green Tech cheaper, and of course, we find time to laugh at that stupid Facebook rebrand.

Jonny Rae-Evans has taken on the hosting duties and he is joined by Tech for Good Live podcast regular Greg Ashton.

Our special guest is Sandra Pallier, Co-organiser of ClimateAction.tech and interaction designer at Microsoft

You can find loads of great content from ClimateAction.tech and their conversations about using tech to tackle climate change on their YouTube channel.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week 

Of the 438 empirical studies of the impact of climate change since 2010, zero have been included in the established Economic models

Whilst 58% of people want decisive action worldwide:

Climate change: Polls shows rising demand for government action - BBC News 

Charity news of the week

At least £1.25bn in funding to be given to indigenous people and local communities as part of the aim to stop deforestation by 2030 - The Guardian

Tech news of the week

The new name for Facebook is Meta

World leaders pledge to make green tech cheaper:

World leaders announce plan to make green tech cheaper than alternatives - The Guardian 

And finally…

Lego surveyed children to understand how to tackle climate change and made their ideas into a leaflet for cop 26 attendees

Books mentioned by Sandra:

The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel

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

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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.

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

If you’re new here we’re a podcast that talks about what’s new on the Tech for Good scene, but more often than not we end up talking about how tech is being used for evil - quite timely for Halloween!

Talking of Halloween, the agenda this week is pretty scary! We talk about the fact that Trump is making a comeback. The world is heating up and campaigners are keeping a close eye on global leaders ahead of the UN’s climate change conference COP26. And surprise, surprise Facebook is back to its dodgy dealings. 

Fay Schofield is your host and she is joined by TfGL regular Greg Ashton.

Our special guest this week is Ana Zarraga, Head of Digital and Content at Global Witness, an organisation that challenges the abuses of power to protect human rights, the environment and secure the future of our planet.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week 

From zero to 12 billion trump's media venture kicks off in typical hyped style:

Analysis: From zero to $12 bln; investors chase Trump stock hype - Reuters 

But not without issues:

Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social - The Guardian 

Charity news of the week: COP26 special

UK must postpone Cop26 because poorest nations being shut out, say campaigners - Independent  

Last line of defence - Global Witness 

COP26 sponsors cause 350m tonnes of climate pollution - The Ferret 

UN sounds alarm on missing climate pledges - Reuters

Tech news of the week

 The reality of Facebooks damaging activities is brought more into light:

Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge - The Guardian

A whistleblower’s power: Key takeaways from the Facebook Papers - Washington Post  

And finally…

Hilarious Alan Partridge-esque interview where the interviewer can't understand why trees are more sustainable than concrete. - Indy100

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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. In this episode we’re talking about the effect of social media on the spread of conspiracy theories. One expert says that actually, you’ve always been a weirdo and social media didn’t make you this way. 

Charities are changing their behaviour to improve their cyber security since the pandemic, we discuss why this has come about.

And Prince William has announced the winners of Project Earthshot, which are five ideas to try to save the planet.

Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live regular Greg Ashton

Our special guest this week is Joe Dix, Head of Digital at WWF 

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week 

World's most prominent expert in conspiracy theories says social media is not making more people believe conspiracies like QAnon - Rolling Stone

Charity news of the week

Four out of five charities have changed their attitude or behaviour to cyber security since the pandemic. The less good news is that a quarter of these changing attitudes were down to experiencing a breach firsthand - Charity Digital

This comes as the charity commission tells charity leaders to protect their organisations following 8.6 million of lost funds in the last financial year - Gov.uk

Tech news of the week

The first five "Earthshot" prize winners are announced - Positive.news

And finally…

Viewers fall for John Lewis' trap and give them more coverage following their latest advert, morons. - The Independent

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

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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! It’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive impact on the world. 

On today’s podcast we are talking about a social enterprise that aims to address low numeracy skills among working-age adults. BT is the latest big firm to basically duplicate work that expert charities are already doing. Lego seems to have suddenly realised that the gender bias in their toys isn't a good idea. And something called Snapchat has done something to do with young people running for office. Apparently it’s something young people use.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week 

It is estimated that just under half of working-age adults in the UK have numeracy skills lower than that expected of an 11-year-old child - FT

Social enterprise Plain Numbers aims to help this

Charity news of the week

BT plans to duplicate the efforts of charities who probably know better than them - Sky News

Tech news of the week

Snapchat to add feature to help young people run for political office - NPR

And finally…

Lego to remove gender bias from it's toys

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

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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 nerds! Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact. It’s fun, it’s friendly, it’s frustrating but it’s always super professional and polished. Our one regular listener will know that was actually a hilarious joke.

In this episode we are talking about far right people continuing to be awful. Charities are demanding that they have a charity commissioner that is neither politicised or you know, evil. And, in news that will surprise everyone, Facebook are awful, harmful, and doing it knowingly, rather than just due to incompetence, so says a whistleblower.

Joining Bex today is Tech For Good team member Fay Schofield.

Our guest is Marie Farmer - Founder of digital health app Mini Mealtimes, an app that helps parents track the nutritional info of the food their children are eating so they can make informed decisions about their families health.

Stat of the week 

Hundreds new membership with far right group Oath Keepers following January 6th Capitol attack - The Guardian

Charity news of the week

Open letter from 23 charities asking the government not to politicise the role of charity commissioner (which would be illegal) - i

Tech news of the week

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Reveals Identity In Bombshell '60 Minutes' Interview - HuffPost 

Facebook 'operates in shadows' - and Instagram is worse than other social sites, whistleblower tells Congress - Sky News 

Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Facebook whistleblower claims - The Guardian 

Facebook whistleblower says Zuckerberg knows site harms children: ‘The buck stops with Mark’ - The Independent  

And finally…

New Fairphone plus earbuds!!!

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