Tech For Good Live

Welcome back to a new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast! If you’re new here, run now and never look back, joking of course! We’re a podcast focused on chatting about using tech to have a positive social impact. If you’re a regular listener…God help you. On this episode we’re talking about data leaks, the rise of the humble text message donation and a different type of world wide web (arachnophobes feel free to tune out at that point)  Fay Schofield is on hosting duties and she’s joined by TFGL regular Greg Ashton. Our special guest is John Fitzgerald. John works on digital evolution at the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, working with charities to assess and improve their digital capability. John is also a trustee at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. If you’re a charity listening to this, John would love you to go get a Digital Checkup to help you to assess your organisation’s current digital maturity and how this compares to other organisations of a comparable size. The check u

Welcome to the Tech for Good Live podcast! This is a weekly show all about how technology can, should, but often isn’t, used to have a positive impact on the world.  In this episode, we are talking about how a Swiss student has demonstrated Twitter’s algorithm is biased (shocker), the UK is full of ageists, social media is going to be used to vet gun ownership and McBoatyMcBoatFace may be knocked off the best named boat spot, as the ‘Flying Farage’ is gaining traction to become a reality. Fay Schofield is on hosting duties, and she is joined by Greg Ashton and Marium Navid Our special guest is Tereza Litsa, Digital Engagement Manager at Lightful and organiser of the #ReclaimSocial campaign. This week’s topics: Stat of the week  $3,500 is the amount Twitter paid to Bogdan Kulynych, a graduate student at Switzerland’s EFPL university, who demonstrated the bias in the algorithm - The Guardian Charity news of the week  Ageing better's new survey finds most people think the UK is ageist - Ageing Better

Hello and a warm podcast welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We’ve a HOT episode of the podcast lined up for you.  The planet is dying and the chances of us saving it are dwindling. So yeah, we’ll be chatting about that. Surely a podcast can fix it.  We’ve got some positive news about a partnership between the wonderful Chayn and Bumble.  There’s some legitimate concerns about Apple’s new privacy plans, so we’ll be talking about that, and much more... Joining host Bex we have TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore. Our special guest is Louise Corden. Louise has been Lead Digital Producer at NSPCC for the last four years, and is just about to move to the Design, Data and Tech team at Citizens Advice. This week’s topics: Stat of the week Not a stat, a fact, we're f*cked: Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' - BBC News  And political will is still questionable: The perverse argument against the bipartisan infrastructure bill: It wants to addr

We’re back with another episode of the Tech For Good Live Podcast. It’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive impact in the world. We talk about charity. We talk about social issues, and we talk about the interwebs and everything in between.  In this episode, recorded at the height of the Olympic season, the team talk about a World Record privacy fine from the EU and a high jump in donations for RNLI. Host Jonny Rae-Evans is joined by pod regular Greg Ashton.  Our special guest this week is Dave Fardoe. He’s the chairman of Accordant Solutions, a tech company specialising in social value measurement.  Discussed in the episode: Stat of the week €746 million is now the highest ever privacy fine from the EU. Given to Amazon for breach of GDPR - Bloomberg Charity news of the week: Update on last week's story about the RNLI volunteer assaults. Turns out there are more nice people in the world - The Guardian   And in this year's Community Life Survey, informal volunteering is at a rece

Hello and welcome to the hellmouth. This is an episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast – a show all about using technology to do social good. In this episode we are peeking behind the curtain of TikTok’s algorithm. For those listeners who are Bex’s age, TikTok is a social media product, and not a tiny mint that provides up to two hours of freshness. We’re talking about the RNLI team getting some grief from losers and haters. And we’re talking about Pegasus. Not the winged horse that we all know and love, but instead about those awful men who are probably listening to everything we say. No, not Instagram, the other awful men. Joining host Bex in this fight against evil we have TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Fay Schofield.  And we have a return guest with us! The excellent Lauren Coulman from social impact consultancy Noisy Cricket!  Stat of the week:  It takes less than 2 hours for Tik Tok to work out what videos it wants to show you. In some cases less than 40 - Wall Street Journal Charity ne

Welcome back to another Tech For Good Live podcast. Our plan for the show this week is to spread delight as we highlight just how deep COVID misinformation goes. We talk excitedly about the league table of trust, and with a joie de vivre we discuss digital security in China. Hosting this show this time around is Tom Passmore and he’s joined by Greg Ashton. Our special guest is David Higgins, variously CTO for the original Learndirect online learning platform, Programme Director for the NHS Care Record, Security Cleared Odd-Bod at the Home Office and FCO, Programme and Security Director for the 2nd Generation UK Smart Meters Network, Cabinet Office High Risk programme reviewer, occasional CNI Security consultant and all round advisor for technical and security things. That's a lot of things. This week’s topics: Stat of the week: Majority of covid misinformation linked to just 12 people - The Guardian It seems the claims of a culture war in the UK are being exaggerated by the press and public figures

Welcome back to another episode of the tech for good live podcast. If you’ve lost a bet, or have been tricked into listening to the show for the first time… it’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive impact in the world. Today’s show is jam-packed with excellence, or with tedium, depending on whether you’re “cool” or whatever.  We talk about how the planet is getting hotter but not in a good way. We dig into some stats about charity digital skills and we discuss web privacy and a really boring fight for the future of the internet. This week’s topics: Stat of the week The Amazon rainforest is now producing more CO2 than it absorbs - The Guardian Charity news of the week The Charity Digital Skills report is released today with some interesting findings from the pandemic age. Tech news of the week Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty ware for your privacy. - Protocol Are you for Verified ID’s for social media…? Sign this petition. If you’re against it...sign this on

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. You can tell we’ve been really effective as a podcast, because now nothing bad ever happens with technology. Out there, on the interwebs, everything is just fine.. Mission accomplished. Well done, Greg. On today’s episode we’re talking about why women aren’t entering the tech industry. There's a positive story that involves football and crowdfunding, and Greg will be walking us through the NHS data breach. Jonny Rae-Evans is on hosting duties, and he is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Faye Schofield Our special guest is Chris Burns, Product Person who’s recently worked with The Department for Education and The English Institute of Sport. Chris is a regular mentor at Manchester Met Uni and Tech For Good Live’s Help A Charity initiative. He also co-organises the Deliver Sessions meetup. This week’s topics: Stat of the week  In 2020, the number of girls

Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! In this show we have a new controversy on TikTok, The UN is making new mistakes with data, and Facebook is trying something new - they are attempting to not be the vilest pieces of dog excrement on the planet. Hosting this show this time around is Tom Passmore and he’s joined by ever-present potty mouth Greg Ashton. And we have guests! Plural!  Arda Awais & Savena Surana co-creators of Identity 2.0, a creative studio working at the intersection of digital rights, technology and Identity. For more information and to get tickets for their exhibition ‘This Machine Is Black’, head to identity20.org/thismachineisblack Discussed on the show: Stat of the week There are 168,000 videos on TikTok using Megan Thee Stallion’s new song Thot Shit, but unlike WAP – Stallion and Cardi B’s last viral song – there is not a single trending dance to it. This is part of an indefinite strike by black creators - The Guardian Charity

Hello, victims, and welcome to the Tech for Good Live podcast! If you’re new here, this is a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact. If you’re a regular visitor, please seek medical help. This episode is jam packed with drama, despair, and a little dash of whimsy. We’ll be talking about Amazon again. Not content with destroying economies, local businesses, the lives of their employees, privacy, and… well, the world… they’re now also destroying their own stock.  We’ve a positive story about HSBC and Shelter working together to help people without a fixed address manage their finances. And Greg has discovered a new use for plastic and apparently it’s delicious. Joining host Bex we have Greg Ashton, strong, reliable, and a little bit dangerous. And our special guest is Dr Alina Kadyrova - Member of the TfGL team, who has just finished a PhD in social innovation. Discussed on the show: Stat(s) of the week 124,000 items of stock marked to be destroyed in one week by Amazon

Welcome to another Tech for Good Live podcast, if you’re new here, run, run for the hills. The podcast title might sound like a lovely look at adorable technology projects doing good in the world, but more often than not, it’s actually about all the terrible stuff happening in the world. I suppose we should start every Tech for Good Live with a content warning based on the types of things we usually discuss, but our first segment this week feels pretty heavy on sexual assault, so we’re letting you know up front.  We also talk about newspapers being divisive (nothing new there) and Amnesty international are launching an Algorithmic Accountability Lab, which we’re very intrigued by. We do have a good news story to finish up with and it’s obviously about alcohol.  Fay Schofield is on hosting duties, and she’s joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore And our special guest this week is Lou Lai, Strategist, fundraiser, marketer, charity lover. Lou is the Transformation Director at Manifesto Lond

In this episode we’re talking about a global movement that is putting people living with disabilities on the business leadership agenda. We’re also talking about how the online world is responding to asks for support for charities in Palestine. We also chat about how algorithms on Facebook and Twitter may be further suppressing marginalized voices around the globe. This week’s topics: Stat of the week Two years ago, they launched the campaign to get 500 national and multinational, private sector corporations to be the tipping-point for change and help unlock the social and economic value of people living with disabilities across the world. They just became The Valuable 500 Firms 'lose trillions' by ignoring disabled consumers - BBC Charity news of the week Gaming network IGN is facing a staff revolt after senior management stepped in to delete, and apologise for, a post linking readers to charities and organisations in Palestine. - The Guardian Tech news of the week Tech and their difficult r

They say necessity is the Mother of Invention, so strap yourselves in for a hackathon of creativity. The TFGL Bat Signal has been beamed into the sky leaving Ben White, your stand-in host to sort of moodliy perch on a gargoyle somewhere trying to get a good Zoom connection. In this episode we’re talking about the interesting choices ahead for employers in the third sector, coming to terms with a more remote workforce. Twitter have opened the tip jar and Signal has been shining a light on Facebook’s targeted advertising, leaving the team to wonder what they’d be labeled as. Joining Ben (Tired Professional Dad) is Greg Ashton (Angry Food Obsessed Dog Dad) and our special guest Zoe Amar (Knackered Tech Nerd) Zoe is widely regarded as one of the charity sector’s leading digital experts. She founded digital agency and social enterprise Zoe Amar Digital in 2013, she is the Chair of The Charity Digital Code of Practice and her podcast Starts At The Top discusses how leaders across all sectors are using digital to

This podcast is all about using technology to have a positive impact on the world. Sometimes though, we talk about the opposite of that. You know, like Elon Musk’s plan for a slave army on Mars. Or Zuckerberg’s plans for a slave army on earth, or Tim Cook’s plans for a beautifully branded slave army on earth. This week’s episode will surely be upbeat though, because we’re finally in the month of May. Pre-slaughter lambs are in the fields. Flowers are blooming everywhere except in Bex’s flower beds. Not a euphemism. We have a quick update on Basecamp, where everything is absolutely fine. We delve into the numbers and statistics and wotnot about charities and their emissions and energy use in 2020. Also absolutely fine. And in the tech news of the month we talk about how police have been given the go-ahead for using facial recognition technology. I’m sure that will absolutely not lead to horror stories of racism. So yeah. Uplifting content from beginning to end.  Joining host Bex, we have Greg Ashton and

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast.  This time, we are talking about a universal basic income trial. FUN. We discuss institutional racism and bias in the charity sector: Absolutely NOT FUN. And finally, Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are about to have a big fight. Jonny Rae-Evans is on hosting duties and he is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore.  Our Special guest this week is Mia Peters, a user centred service design and research practitioner with extensive public sector experience. This week’s topics: Stat of the week Two year trial into basic income ends in America and finds find people on the guaranteed income found full-time work at more than twice the rate of non-recipients - Positive.News Charity news of the week Another charity reports institutional racism and bias - The Guardian Tech news of the week Reaction to the ‘changes’ at Basecamp, that were announced in Jason Fried’s post this week Things are about to get tense betwee

Welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! We’ve a lot to talk about this week, including: The planned “Instagram for Children” spin-off seems to have been scrapped by Facebook. That’s good, but surprising news, because Instagram has always been indifferent about the harm they cause kids, so let’s see what happens there. Big tech and the incoming anti-trust action. That sounds incredibly boring, but we’ll try to keep it fun. And a really concerning “innovation” in prison tech.  Joining host Bex on the show this week we have TFGL team members Fay Schofield and Ankur Asthana. And our special guest is Ross McCulloch, Director of Third Sector Lab who specialise in digital strategy & service design for charities. He is the founder Digital Trustees Scotland - a movement which aims to get a tech professional on every charity board. Ross developed and facilitates the highly-successful SCVO Digital Senior Leaders Programme. He also runs the CharityComms Scotland Networking Group a

Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast.  We’re still recording these episodes remotely on plague island but we’ve got a great episode lined up for you, filled to the brim with stories like... Fake news on Facebook. Don’t worry though, we’re pretty sure it’s a one-off. Prince Phillip, even though dead, is still able to contribute to the UK being less equal. Skillz. And YouTube decides to…. *checks notes* favour white supremacists over Black Lives Matter.  So yeah, that all sounds fun right? Joining Bex on the show this week we have TFGL regular Greg Ashton and making a second appearance on the podcast, our special guest is Sarah Miguel. Sarah is Head of Business Development at People's History Museum (PHM), a Trustee at MASH and will soon be joining the board of Future Everything. This week’s topics: Stat of the week 294 of the 301 top comments were fake in a Facebook post from an independent Azerbaijani news outlet. About an activist being sentenced to 8 months in prison fo

Whilst the UK faces the confusing weather combo of freezing temperatures, snow and glorious sunshine. We're here to provide you with some ever consistent gloomy forecasts. This week on the pod we look at why Wikipedia is putting the HIS in history. There's an exciting new youth focused development from NSPCC. And Facebook comes out swinging like… well, like Nick Clegg in a fist fight. And by fist fight we mean a 5,000 word essay on medium. Thanks, Medium. Ben White is on hosting duties this week and he is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Sam Milsom This week’s topics Stat of the week: Wikipedia volunteers are 90% make and less than 1 in 5 biographies are about women - LX Male Wikipedia editors are deleting women, says Sandi Toksvig - The Times   Charity news of the week:   NSPCC launches Young People’s Board For Change - Charity Today Tech news of the week:  Facebook on the defense to protect its algorithm with changes to the platform and a looking medium post from Nick Clegg -

Hello and welcome to a new episode and a brand new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast! A lot has gone on over the past couple of weeks… we can now all meet in groups of six outside, the internet has exploded with memes of the Evergreen blocking the Suez Canal, knocking Bernie and his mittens off the top meme top spot, and it’s a 4 day week. What could be better?  Fay Schofield is on hosting duties, and she’s joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore This weeks topics: Stat of the week  More than three-quarters of UK adults actively recycle their plastic waste, despite not fully understanding what happens to it afterwards, says a new study. The majority of British adults don't understand how recycling works - Euronews Why John Oliver is right, plastic recycling is a broken system and what we should do about it - The Independent Re-visit TFGL on the Circular Economy - Season 1 & Season 2 Charity news of the week  Netflix’s latest viral documentary zones in the fis

Welcome to another episode of “Making Friends With…” - a special series where the Tech for Good Live team sit down for an in-depth interview with someone who is doing exceptional work in the tech industry. In this episode, Bex is chatting with some of the good people at Monzo, the online bank that has been shaking up the banking industry over the last 5 years. Her guests are Jessica Bilcock, Public Policy and Vulnerability Manager, and Natalie Ledward, Head of Vulnerable Customers. They discuss the challenges banks face with vulnerable customers and what Monzo are doing to help with the growing issue of problem gambling in the UK. ---------- We hope you enjoy the episode. Please drop us a review on iTunes, and if you’d like to hear more interviews and conversations like this, let us know who you’d recommend we interview. Send thoughts, suggestions and feedback on Twitter @techforgoodlive.