Tech For Good Live

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

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/ ht

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 impair

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-twe

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

Live from Federation, it's the Tech for Good Live Christmas podcast live!   Not only that, but this year it's a joint extravaganza with the team joining forces with not one, but two amazing meetups - Ladies that UX and NUX! And to represent these wonderful people we have UX aficionados and meetup legends Llara and Rick.   In classic end of the year style expect some tech for good live stats of the year plus an internet minute 2017 from Greg, who apparently doesn't care so why he included it we've no idea. There's also chatbot for fundraisers, vending machines for the homeless and our guests get to air their thoughts on AI and other things that didn't happen this year.   So grab a glass, put your feet up and have a very merry Christmas.   See you all in the new year!   Find our guests: @ladiesthatuxmcr @the_llara @nuxuk @rick_threlfall   Things we mentioned: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/happens-internet-minute-2017/ https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/30/childrens-society-introduces-faceboo

The team have their first returning guest this month with friend of the pod Fay Schofield gracing them with her presence.  She has a bone to pick with Facebook so listen out for her rant at the end of the show, good thing to because the team never complain about Facebook ever, after all Zuckerberg is one of their biggest fans.   Also this month you’ll hear about charity sector pay, viral campaign fails, digital inclusion and an app that will save you money and raise it for charity at the same time. You’re also blessed with a couple of updates on a few campaigns previously mentioned on the pod, aren’t you lucky?   Things in this episode:   https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/06/salary-survey-shows-charity-workers-earn-32-less-sectors/#.WgF_pGh-pPY https://culturedvultures.com/hellblade-developers-raise-60000-world-mental-health-day/ http://standuptocancer.hyundai.co.uk/ https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2017/10/03/new-charity-campaign-aims-to-go-viral/ https://thedealerapp.co.uk/ https://www.charitydigitalnew

A fairly standard pod this month where you’ll get to hear the team talking about, well, standards, from connectors to internet, they just can’t get enough of them. There’s also time to talk automation, charity crossovers with console games and that absolutely mind-bendingly misplanned Facebook VR event. Zuckerberg really is making it too easy for them. Things this episode: https://qz.com/1098441/only-5-of-young-workers-in-britain-are-in-jobs-that-are-safe-from-robot-replacement/ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-09-all-proceeds-from-hellblades-sales-tomorrow-will-go-to-charity http://benefittosociety.co.uk/ http://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-vr-puerto-rico http://www.wired.co.uk/article/w3c-eff-open-standards-web-cory-doctorow https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw3k9g/in-this-game-your-favorite-web-browsers-are-anime-babes-in-a-swimsuit-contest Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveSnapchat: techforgoodEmail: hello@techforgood.live  

The ‘Pod’ this month was recorded LIVE at Wuthering Bytes, the digital festival with the best name EVER! Co-organiser of the Hebden Bridge based event, Tim Harbour joins the team this month, soldiering on with a particularly frustrating cold. The team discuss Instagrams erroneous definition of the word ‘low’, how you can help raise awareness with Shelter, AI doing stuff and how AR could actually be really useful for charities. The audience get in on the rant this month and offer up the topics including amongst other things, (one of) Greg’s favourite companies to complain about, Apple. It’s worth noting this was recorded prior to the Apple event, but given the scope of the leaks this year most of it’s correct. If you’d like to contact Tim or Wuthering Bytes: @timharbour @wutheringbytes   Things this episode: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/instagram-cyber-attack-hack-celebrities-selena-gomez-justine-bieber-millions-ordinary-social-media-a7926211.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog

To quote Ben:   “It’s been quite feisty podcast, we all genuinely love each, and...whatever, I hope that you can get something out of this, I hope Paul can kind of resurrect something….”   Thanks to the brilliant and erudite Kirsty Styles for running rings round the team and taking them to task. You can find her @kirstystyles1 (damn you @kirstystyles for camping on the first of her name).   And a final thanks to Bex for “Printernet”, the world will never be the same.   Things this episode: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding https://givewithdata.com/ https://datacoup.com/ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nrk-norwegian-news-site-comments-read-story-understand-post-quiz-questions-a7607246.html https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132632/ai-is-inventing-its-own-perfect-languages-should-we-let-it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40859004 And because Ben asked: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/the-dark-side-of-guardian-commen

Laying waste to the team with his acerbic wit this month is Fritz von Runte, self-confessed friend and lover to music, UX specialist and designer. Fritz has made a name for himself as a vocal, and amusing member of the tech community in Manchester and is an advocate of ‘tech for good’. On the podcast, an analysis of stating the obvious over 205 pages and why Facebook sucks at creating shareable content for important causes. The week after the launch of the Fundraising Preference Service the team wonder will it work and why isn’t it a Marketing Preference Service? And Greg finally gets to rant about Amazon and their latest edition to the Echo range, Echo Look. If you’d like to get in touch with Fritz (though we’re not sure he wants that): Twitter: @vonrunte Our podcast title this month was kindly provided by the wonderful InspiroBot - inspirobot.me/ Things this episode:sofii.org/images/Articles/The-…-PROJECT-SUMMARY.pdf www.womensaid.org.uk/keeping-women-safe-online/ public.fundraisingpreference.org.uk/ www.cr

This episode was recorded the night before what was to be the dreaded day of the election. Expect plenty of vitriolic rants about ideologies, members of the political elite and lazy voting.The team also touch on #grime4corbyn conclusively demonstrating their lack of understanding of the musical genre and destroying any lingering illusions of their ‘coolness’.If that isn’t enough Ben finally gets to talk about South America and it’s actually relevant! Who would have thought it.Things this episode:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39678859https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote http://www.macmillan.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/our-ambition/life-with-cancer.html?origin=HP-2017-lwc1 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/17/grime4corbyn-why-british-mcs-are-uniting-behind-the-labour-leader https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/15-21-may-2017/rizeup-political-campaign-looks-get-young-disillusioned-people-voting/ https://whotargets.me/Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveSna

Joining the team this month is the the podcasts very own super fan (only fan) Charlotte Rushton. No stranger to digital herself she works for digital agency and startup Wool Digital, along with Ben White stand in, Ian, she’s dropped in at the deep with the team particularly distracted this month. At some point we think they talk about personal data, tap cars (not tap cats, yet), the hot topic of the Wannacry virus and the appalling outing of the hero of the tale. If you can pick any of that out from the exceptionally rambling route they take this month then you probably deserve a medal, that or an article in the press about your love of pizza.If you’d like to get in touch with Charlotte or Wool Digital: Twitter: @WoolDigital @charrushtonWebsite: http://wool.digital/ Things this episode:http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/its-time-start-taking-control-our-personal-data-seriously http://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2017/05/02/world-first-for-stand-up-to-cancer/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39931635 https://th

This is episode 3 of our new series looking at the Abilitynet Tech4Good Awards.In this episode Mark Walker meets Billy Dann, Pontso Mafethe and Malcolm Spence of Comic Relief, who introduce the Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award - an exciting new award that focuses on how tech can tackle poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. They explain how Comic Relief works with local communities across the region and pick out some examples of how tech is already delivering benefits in their projects and programmes. They are joined by Elise Leclerc of Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, who has been conducting research on behalf of Comic Relief and its partners. She offers headlines from their forthcoming report, which identifies key trends in how tech is delivering social and community value in the region.More information:https://www.tech4goodawards.com/spotlight-comic-relief-tech4good-africa-award/http://www.comicrelief.com/grantshttp://www.m-iti.orgThis podcast is brought to you by Tech For Good Live and Reason Di

Joining the team this month is the ever excellent Martin Bryant bringing his @TechNorthHQ wisdom and a pair of Snapchat sunglasses from SXSW (everyone loved them). Of course the gang were on their best behaviour, downloading the Red Nose Day swear jar app and testing it to its limits, brace yourselves for this episode.You’re also treated to the official podcast debut of the notorious #Ian who takes on the role of Ben White as the voice of dissent and occasional pragmatic wisdom.On the agenda is digital skills for charities, the NHS, its patients and just about anyone else. They also take a break from insulting Facebook and actually cover some of the great and socially good projects they’ve recently launched. Good work Facebook if you can get this lot to say something nice.Apparently this is the Easter episode so they don’t mention Easter at all in an attempt to annoy the Pope or something like that.If you’d like to get in touch with Martin or Tech North:Twitter: @MartinSFP @TechNorthHQWebsite: https://technor

This is episode 2 of our new series looking at the Abilitynet Tech4Good Awards. This month we chat HealthTech LIVE from the BT Tower during the Tech4Good Awards 2017 launch.(www.tech4goodawards.com/) Bex (@rebeccawho) from Reason Digital’s (reasondigital.com/) Techforgood Live team (www.techforgood.live/) and Producer Paul (@paul_yakabovski) join forces with Mark Walker (@scipmark) from Abilitynet (www.abilitynet.org.uk/) who has been running the awards since 2011.We gather together nominees, sponsors, winners, judges and friends of the awards to tell their stories and talk about the latest developments in the sector.We’ve got:Jean Irvine OBE ex-Chair of the accessibility panel, Information Technologists’ Company.Arnav Sharma, winner of the people’s award and creator of the Asthma Pi (https://www.tech4goodawards.com/10-year-old-inventor-kicks-off-abilitynet-tech4good-awards-2017/)  And Dave Godley from MyWard (NHS Devon Partnership) (http://www.tech4goodawards.com/finalist/myward/)Give us a shoutout on Twitte

There was clearly something in the water this month as the team are a little giddy, perhaps making up for the anger last month. Don't worry though, they still rant and this time it's all about terminology, or it's miss-use to be exact.Not before we hear about the bleak outlook for charities, an interesting use of VR by @AnimalEquality and an NHS food app. There's also an update from one of their most popular fundraising campaigns from a previous episode and the team also try to invoke the legal ire of one the most famous vloggers on the planet.Things this episode:https://www.cafonline.org/about-us/publications/2017-publications/social-landscape-2017http://www.rednoseday.com/news-tv-and-events/redouthttp://ianimal.uk/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/yelp-gender-neutral-bathrooms.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveSnapchat: techforgoodEmail: hello@techforgood.live