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, Busi

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 w

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 - Metr

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

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 re

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  Te

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, L

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

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 C

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 cha

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. --------- Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at hello@techforgood.live  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

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.   --------------  Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at hello@techforgood.live  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 spons

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

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  Cha

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

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 zer

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 attitude

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

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 Oa

Hello fellow lonely people and welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. I imagine right now you’re wondering why you even bothered to tune in to this show. Maybe you’re having a bad day. Maybe you regularly make bad decisions like this. Either way, thank you! We appreciate it. We’re in this together now. Just waiting for it to end. But together We have some interesting stuff to talk through though. BBC’s CAPE team have launched their toolkit for designing an inclusive workspace, so we get into that and the #showthesalary campaign has come to an end, well kind of, but maybe not really. Joining Tech for Good Live’s Jonny and Rebecca Rae-Evans is Ben Fowkes, Commercial Director at Delib. This week’s topics: Stat of the week  10%-30% of the population are neurodivergent. BBC UX&D neurodiversity dept - CAPE (Looking at neurodiversity) launch their toolkit for an inclusive workspace. While working environments are required by legislation to be accessible for physical disabilitie