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It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and on this weeks podcast we dicuss VR for mental health and a new Royal-approved free text helpline. We also talk about how AI is awful and also bikes. Our guest this week is Ben Fowkes, Commercial Director at Delib. Reminder that we're still in full crowdfunder mode! You may not know this, but we’re a team of volunteers and we survive off favours, late nights and lunch times so some cash would help us reach more people and help us champion using tech for social good. If you want to contribute to the work we’re doing, show us some love. This weeks stories: Charity news of the week: The UK’s first free 24/7 text helpline for people in crisis has been launched https://bit.ly/2LE15i8 Tech news of the week: Mental Health Awareness Week. Can Virtual Reality help with treatment? Is Virtual Reality the future of mental health treatment? https://bit.ly/2JnyUlx Rant of the week: The Telegraph: US faces its first ban on 'inhumane' facial recognitio

On this week's show we consider a grim report for charity donations. And we’re either going to talk about Apple being proper knobbers again... or we're going to talk about Amazon being proper knobbers again. Exciting! And we have a wonderful guest! Lauren Kelly is here with us. Lauren is a thinker, tinkerer, and positive changer of behaviour at Behaviour Studio. You can find them @WeAreBehaviour In other news.... Something fabulous, exciting and terrifying has happened this week. We have launched a crowdfunder and are aiming for £3000. If we hit that milestone, there's a chance that we might get natwest match funding. You may not know this, but we’re a team of volunteers and we survive off favours, late nights and lunch times so some cash would help us reach more people and help us champion using tech for social good. If you want to contribute to the work we’re doing, visit TechforGood.Live and click on “Crowdfunding” to support us. We have fun rewards on offer such as... watch a Kurt Russell

Welcome to another rousing episode of Making Friends with… This time, host Jonny Rae-Evans is joined by Mills Vardheim of the Tech for Good Live team. So what is this. Basically - we have no friends. We’re broken, lonely people - just stumbling around in the dark. So why not shamefully use our platform to make some new friends. Best friends. Amiright? In this Making Friends with... episode we have none other than the amazing Tash Willcocks. Tash has over 20 years of experience shaping future changemakers in the creative industry. She was previously programme leader of the BA and MA Graphic Design course at Salford University, and now facilitates the learning of worldwide postgraduate students that join the MA Digital Management and MA Digital Experience Design programmes at Hyper Island as Head of Masters in Europe. We talk about how she got into the industry, her role in educating the next generation, the role of ethics in education and the famous designer ego. We hope you enjoy the episo

This week we’re talking about money. Billions and billions of pounds of money. And also the value of carers. Maybe they’re one and the same thing? Action for Children have a plan to help children share how they’re feeling, with digital. And health apps, those cheeky rascals, are sharing your data in ways you would not believe. Or maybe you would. Because you listen to this podcast. And we’ve prepared you for the end times. Jonny and Bex Rae-Evans are back this week and are joined by Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. This weeks topics: Stat of the week: £134 billion versus £132 billion - one is the cost of the NHS and one is how much it would cost if all carers in the UK stopped doing what they doing: https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/news/unpaid-carers-save-the-uk-132-billion-a-year-the-cost-of-a-second-nhs Built with support from 200 charities and social enterprises and it’s already helped over 100,000 people: https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/04/15/free-impa

On the podcast this week we talk about tech being used for good. Again. Do you keep your social media profile private? We talk about that. And vigilantes are shaming people who damage national parks. A bit like a shit but less violent batman. Reason Digital's Greg Ashton and Producer Paul are here and Harry Bailey has jumped into into the hosting hotseat. And we have a guest! Jack Sheppard joins us! Jack is a digital product designer and creative event producer who splits his time between London and Manchester. He focuses on making products and services simple for real human beings and encouraging designers to think about the real-life implications of the things they design. You can find him on Twitter @madebysheppard and his website. On this weeks episode: Stat of the week: 67% of women keep their social profiles to friends only, opposed to 48% of men: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/privacy-feminism.html Charity news of the week: Vigilante shaming “influencers” who impact national park

Hello! It’s time again for another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! We’ve been on little break as part of our new seasonal format, this means we have had time to share some specials like our live podcasts from UX Copenhagen. See, we do have friends! If you haven’t already, go and check them out. Now back to this week and we to talk about yet another leak at Facebook, an exciting new app for mental health support and AI and tech regulation. Tom and Sophie from Dsposal are back on the pod, joining regular Greg Ashton, and Producer Paul. And we have not one but two special guests! Doug and Logan from Unmasked. They're here to tell us about their new app to help people with mental health issues find friendship and support. You can find out more about the project on their website: https://unmaskedmentalhealth.co.uk/ Or find them on Twitter @UnmaskedH On this weeks episode: Stat of the week: This week Facebook leaked only 540 million user records: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/facebook-re

Hello listeners. We've been back to UX Copenhagen! This year’s topic was consent and privacy. We were there for both days of the conference and we're bringing you three special editions of the Tech for Good Live podcast with a whole host of fantastic guests. On the third and final episode, joining podcast regular Ben White, Managing Director at digital agency Reason Digital and host Rebecca Rae-Evans, consultant at the design agency Sigma, is Saskia Videler. Saskia is an independent content strategy consultant, a content designer, UX writer, lecturer, public speaker, workshop host AND she produces and hosts the podcast series “Efficiently Effective”. Saskia Videler is based in Belgium. She works for large organisations in retail, telecom, and government, as well as for smaller NGO’s and companies. Special thanks to Helle Martens (@snetramelleh) and the UX Copenhagen team for having us back! If you’ve enjoyed listening to this podcast, please drop us a friendly review on iTunes. You can hear m

Hello listeners. We've been back to UX Copenhagen! This year’s topic was consent and privacy. We were there for both days of the conference and we're bringing you three special editions of the Tech for Good Live podcast with a whole host of fantastic guests. On episode two, joining podcast regular Jonny Rae-Evans, Head of Creative at Capgemini and host Rebecca Rae-Evans, consultant at the design agency Sigma, are Sheryl Cababa and Darren Menachemson. Sheryl is an Executive Creative Director at Artefact and has more than 20 years of experience in product design and consultancy. With one foot planted in design research and strategy, and another in interaction design. She has experience working with companies such as Microsoft, Philips, and IKEA, leading projects across industries from retail to robotic surgery systems. Darren is a partner in ThinkPlace, a world-leading public good design firm that works to create better futures for society. His focus is on applying design thinking at scale to intractab

Hello listeners. We've been back to UX Copenhagen! This year’s topic was consent and privacy. We were there for both days of the conference and we're bringing you three special editions of the Tech for Good Live podcast with a whole host of fantastic guests. On episode one, joining podcast regular Greg Ashton, Digital Strategist at digital agency, Reason Digital and host Rebecca Rae-Evans, consultant at the design agency Sigma, are Gry Hasselbalch and Nicole A. Cooke. Gry is co-founder of DataEthics.eu. For over a decade, she has worked with the industry, policymakers, NGOs, and end users in the cross field of tech, ethics, human rights, and society. She is also appointed member of the European Commission’s high level group on AI and ethics developing ethics and policy guidelines for AI in Europe. Nicole is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds an M.Ed. in adult education from Pennsylvania State University and an MLS

Happy International Women's Day everyone! And yep if you’re asking… there is an International Men’s Day. Also, be a better person. This week we’re talking about automated benefit cuts, WWF foul play, Facial recognition for dog shelters, and finalists for the Impact Awards, and I guess, more foul play? We also make fun of robots, again. And we’re probably high up on their kill list by now. Joining us this week we have the usuals: Amelia, Sacha, Sophie and Bex, with Mills producing this week because you know, women. And we have a guest! Helen has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years in EU/Govt/local authority policy influencing and campaigning roles. You may have noticed something different this week; in honour of International Women’s Day we’ll be featuring an all women podcast! This week's stories: Stat of the week: 8000 face incorrect benefit cuts from automated fraud detector https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-face-incorrect-benefit-cuts-from-automated-fraud-detector-116

Welcome to the second episode of “Making Friends With…” - a new 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 and Jonny chat with Richard Wilson, co-founder of Stop Funding Hate. They talk about the origins of the organisation. The push back from the media. Supporters. Trolls. And how they managed to make the campaign such a huge success. 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. Thanks!

We have a whole host of interesting topics to talk about this week, such as charities and the Mail on Sunday engaging in verbal fisticuffs, a VR project to help young people suffering from mental health conditions and the fascinating secret lives of the Facebook moderators. Joining host Ben White this week are Jonny Rae-Evans, Harry Bailey and Producer Paul. Stat of the week: The Mail on Sunday says that ten of the UK's largest charities spent more than £225m on support and governance costs. Charity Sector pushes back: https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/sector-hits-back-mail-sunday-story-spending/finance/article/1562776 Charity news of the week: A charity’s virtual reality project to help young people overcome mental health issues has scooped two technology awards. The Children’s Society’s Reality Check project was one of four organisations to win a best not-for-profit gong at the inaugural Vodafone Techstarter awards. https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/02/14/vodafone-techstarte

In this week's episode we discuss whether parents trust social networks to protect their kids online, Instagram gaining a donation option and the end of Amazons New York HQ plans. Along the way we ask the big question on everyone's minds this week, how many towels is the right amount of towels? And finally, the recently engaged Greg finds his dream wedding venue. Stats of the week: 6/10 parents do not think social networks protect children from risks such as sexual grooming and inappropriate content around self-harm and suicide: https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/02/15/parents-back-charitys-call-for-tough-social-media-regulation/ Charity news of the week: Instagram to launch donations function: https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/02/13/instagram-to-launch-donation-feature/ Great Ormond Street Hospital launch VR tour: https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/02/15/hospital-charity-launches-virtual-reality-tour/ Tech news of the week: Amazon cancels plans t

If you are listening to this on the release day, it’s Valentine’s Day! That means the faint smells of love and capitalist greed are in the air. Such joy. Much happiness. Such card purchases. We have a jam packed show this week, filled with stories about islamophobia on twitter, we talk about cockroaches and how they relate to technology. Germany are being the heroes we all need now in the fight against intrusive advertising. AND we even have some time to talk about Captain Marvel. Because she’s totally all about using Kree technology - but only for good. Bex is back hosting this week, she's joined by a expletive heavy Greg Aston, Jonny Rae-Evans, and Dsposal's Tom Passmore. Our special guest this week is Jo Morfee from the excellent InnovateHer. You can find her on Twitter (@JoMorfee) Find out more about InnovateHer at: https://www.innovateher.co.uk/ This weeks topics: Stats of the week: New algorithm finds 48% of tweets from 45 far right accounts contain weak to strong Islamophobia:

Hot on the heels of our WorkerTech podcast, we look at promotion opportunities for part time staff. A charity has created a new cancer support map. Facebook and Google go to war with Apple. And have the police gone too far? … Is now the time of facial recognition software? Bex was away in lovely Bristol and we are sadly guestless due to the dreaded winter lurgy, but thankfully host Jonny-Rae Evans, Greg Aston, Ben White and Producer Paul held down the fort. This weeks topics: Part-time workers have just 21% chance of being promoted as opposed to full-time which is 45% And 78% are working beyond their contracted hours: https://www.workingfamilies.orghttps://www.workingfamilies.org.uk/news/mfi_2019/.uk/news/mfi_2019/ Dimbleby Cancer Care launches cancercaremap.org: https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/01/30/charity-creates-online-cancer-support-map/ Facebook caught sucking up data, the problem wasn’t they broke the law, they broke Apple’s terms of service….and then Google got caug

Welcome everyone to yet another joyous edition of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We have much to talk about. Such as… Porn! Suicide! Terrifying rogue japanese robots! And the beginning of the end for fundraising platform MyDonate. In the studio this week is Ben White, who has been away for a while, rearing children. He's joined by pod regular Jonny Rae-Evans and host Bex. AND WE HAVE A GUEST! Lauren Coulman lent us her wonderful voice. Lauren is a social entrepreneur, and founder of social impact consultancy Noisy Cricket, which builds people-powered movements through bringing diverse voices together to create social change. Things discussed: Stat of the week: An “Internet Matters” report has found that 83% of parents support government plans to introduce age-verification on porn sights to increase online safety https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/news-blogs/8-out-of-10-parents-back-governments-pornography-age-verification-plans/ Charity news of the week: BT to close fundraising platform

Welcome to “Making Friends With…” - a new 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 and Jonny chat with user research extrordinaire Steve Portigal, author of Interviewing Users and Doorbells, Dangers and Dead Batteries. They talk about the role of the user researcher, the increasingly blurry line between design and research, design ethics, and Steve’s favourite stories from user researchers out in the field. 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. Thanks!

This week we chat about fake news and the crap news reporting it. We also discuss new toys for charity shops, the future of advertising and fake ethics, and discover our new favourite game... 'When will the tape measure bend!?' In the studio are Greg Ashton, Producer Paul and this weeks host, Harry Bailey. They are joined by special guest, Fianna Hornby. Fianna works in marketing at AutoTrader as well as with our friends at Ladies that UX. She has many, yes many, claims to fame. Besides increasing volunteering at AutoTrader from 1 to 25%, she has also appeared on Songs of Praise twice and had her speaking line in the film Northern Soul cut. You can find her on Twitter @fiannahornby Topics discussed this week: Over 65s 7 times more likely to share fake news: https://apnews.com/c2e7517984a64c6a922e84d550e1e041 Which sounds shocking until you find out in another article that the rate of sharing fake news was extremely low: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/facebook-fake-news-2016-el

Happy new year! The festivities are over. Songs are no longer being sung. Sleigh Bells are no longer ringing. And smiles and happiness feel like a distant memory. That’s right - it must be time for the Tech for Good Live podcast to return. On this weeks show we talk about the impact of AI on smart hearing aids, 400k being spent on three charity projects for digital inclusion, Facebook’s loss is Apples gain, and a Rollercoaster ride that you will definitely need to use the toilet on. Host Bex and pod regular Jonny are joined by offical "Friends of TFGL", Tom and Sophie from Dsposal. Our special guest this week is writer and human rights activist Richard Wilson, co-founder of the excellent Stop Funding Hate campaign group. Launched in August 2016, the campaign aims to make media hate and discrimination unprofitable by encouraging companies to pull their advertising from the Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express.

This Tech for Good Live podcast is a three-part series about WorkerTech, made in conjunction with our friends at Bethnal Green Ventures. In this third and final episode we wrestle with the concept of the Gig Economy and talk about precarious workers. Is the Gig Economy inherently bad and exploitative, or does it provide freedom and flexibility? Is it possible for a WorkerTech solution to exist in this space? We sit down and chat with Uber, Zinc, Cabfair and whole host of others as we try to get an answer. Throughout this series we spoke to Dan Tomlinson from the Resolution Trust, Linda Wickstrom from Accenture, Fabian Wallace-Stephens from the Royal Society of Arts, Unman Mohamed from Organise, Guy Levin from Uber, Duncan McCann from the New Economic Foundation, Rachel Carey from Zinc and of course, Jessica Stacey from Bethnal Green Ventures. You can find a full transcript of this episode at https://www.techforgood.live/latest/the-workertech-podcast-episode-3 This podcast has been brought to you in collab