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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It's a podcast all about using technology to make a positive social impact, or how more often than not, it's making a negative impact. Chat GPT and Google have made some improvements to accessibility – so now even more people can plagiarize stuff. Google has introduced some new AI updates to the way search works. And finally, we'll be looking into a study that says that Grannies are the answer to mental health issues. Host Bex is joined by TFGL team members, Greg Ashton, Mille Vardheim and Paul Jakubowski. Our special guest this week is Harry Harrold, Head of Neontribe, a digital agency committed to tech for good! Good story of the week: ChatGPT and Google went head to head with their AI updates. And that seems to be good news for accessibility…not that they realised it though:  OpenAI GPT-4o — breakthrough voice assistant, new vision features and everything you need to know - Tom's Guide  Bad news story of the week: At Google I/O last week Google introduced a ton of AI including updates to search. Is this a death knell for the internet or an evolution in the way the internet work? Google remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs - The Guardian  And finally Turns out grannies are the answer to mental health:  It's easy, it's everywhere: the simple solution improving mental health around the globe - Positive.news  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at hello@techforgood.live  We'd love it if you gave us a nice 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. 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 back to another episode of the Tech For Good Live podcast!  The world is on fire, so of course we're spending our time talking about tech for good. That's fine. We're all making good choices here. This week's show is what they call “a real humdinger”.  We're going to be talking about “Introspective Inner Development Goals”. Not sure what that means, but they're all pretty powerful players on a Scrabble board.  The US Supreme Court, also tentatively titled “Rent-a-Fascist Inc.” have passed another judgement and in other news, Japan has launched a wooden satellite. That sounds fun. Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski.  Our special guest joining us this week to talk about the news is Georgia Iacovou, a freelance tech policy writer and creator of the excellent Horrific/Terrific newsletter.  Georgia will be with us again on the next episode, where we will be talking about being a content writer in the data ethics and civic tech spaces, working in the content moderation space, and how social media is effed right now. Discussed in this episode: Good story of the week Could the introspective Inner Development Goals help to break down the barriers for the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Can the Inner Development Goals help us create a more sustainable future? - Positive.News  Bad news story of the week It's unclear whether this is bad news yet but the US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether laws on Texas and Florida could come into force. These would allow the states to force social media companies to not take down certain content: Justices sceptical of Tex., Fla. laws that bar platforms from deleting content  - Washington Post And finally Japan to launch world's first wooden satellite to combat space pollution - The Guardian   ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 sponsorships and donations. 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 social impact. In this episode, we are talking about influencers and whether or not 2024 is the year they'll finally unionize.  We discuss the Taliban giving away a load of free sim cards. Sure there's no ulterior motives there. And finally Greg tells us about e-ink finally arriving in… toilets? Can we do a welfare check on Greg please? Is this some kind of cry for help? Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski We are joined this week by Roy. Over the years he's been a tech entrepreneur, a design educator, many other things including a job as a Senior Digital Forensic Investigator.  Next week we will find out more about life as a Senior Digital Forensic Investigator, so tune in for that. This week's topics: Good story of the week: Could 2024 be the year influencers unionize?: The creator economy is ready for a workers' movement - TechCrunch  Bad news story of the week: The Taliban are giving lots of free SIM cards to returning refugees. A worrying new trend in oppressive nations as they start using technology to control the people: The Taliban's curious love of SIM cards - Rest of World And finally Last year it was cars and e-ink displays have now made their way to…toilets.  E Ink has gone from cars... to toilets?! - The Verge  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton, Tom Passmore and Producer Paul. Our special guest this week is Stuart Pearson - formerly working for the Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford area of Citizens Advice as Head of Business Delivery; but now on secondment with Manchester City Council as their Senior Digital Strategy Officer. This is the final episode of the season, we will be back in the near year with more fantastic guests! Thank you to everyone that joined us this year. ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast.  In this episode we talk about taking AI seriously. We also talk about not taking AI seriously, because apparently the human manifestation of bin juice, Elon Musk, is getting into the AI business. It's going as well as you'd expect. NOTE: This podcast was recorded shortly before last weekend's fireworks in the world of AI, when Sam Altman was still the CEO of OpenAI. Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton, Tom Passmore and Producer Paul. Our special guest this week is Stuart Pearson - formerly working for the Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford area of Citizens Advice as Head of Business Delivery; but now on secondment with Manchester City Council as their Senior Digital Strategy Officer  Come back for next week's episode where we talk to Stuart in more detail about Manchester's Digital Strategy. This week's topics: Good story of the week: Given past experience, governments including our own have surprised us all by actually taking the challenges of AI serious: Five takeaways from UK's AI safety summit at Bletchley Park - The Guardian Biden hails ‘bold action' of US government with order on safe use of AI  - The Guardian  Bad news story of the week: More legislation couldn't come soon enough as tech bros use AI for that well known worthy cause - throwing shade: Elon Musk and Sam Altman are arguing over whose bot is better - Fortune  And finally Turns out if you buy a Cybertruck from Tesla and sell it in the first year they will sue you. Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla - The Register  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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. A podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact! Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore. If you listened to last week's show you'll have heard from our guest Christina Cran  as she joined us for our news round up. You wanted more, and we are very happy to say that Christana is here to spend a bit more time with us, and basically become best friends.  Christina is the founder of youth mental health organisation, Wee Seeds and communications consultant for the charity world. Find out all about Wee Seeds here: weeseeds.co.uk  And their socials: Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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. A podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact! In this episode we talk about the UK Government's Online Safety Bill. Is this a helpful thing, or just another way for society to stop Greg from going online? Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton, Tom Passmore and Producer Paul. Our guest this week is Christina Cran. Christina is the founder of youth mental health organisation, Wee Seeds and communications consultant for the charity world. Come back for our next episode when we find out more about the work Wee Seeds are doing to improve the mental health of the next generation. This week's topics: Good story of the week: No tech legislation is ever going to be perfect but let's take a moment to appreciate the drive to make the internet a safer space in the UK's new online safety bill: TechScape: How the UK's online safety bill aims to clean up the internet - The Guardian  Bad news story of the week: Marc Andreessen adds to the list of former tech luminaries taking a dark turn or was he always just a thoughtless tech bro? A Tech Overlord's Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World - New York Times  And finally Someone has combined two of Greg's favourite things. Tech and taking the piss out of tech people: Tech Roast Show - YouTube  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about the ways technology does good in the world. Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team member Greg Ashton. Our special guest this week is Dan Owen.  Dan is a trustee and developer at BanktheFood, a charity on a mission to ensure food banks always have exactly what they need and not just baked beans. In this episode, Dan tells us all about his journey with BanktheFood, from an idea presented to him by a bunch of eager school children, to becoming an award winner at the recent Tech4Good Awards. ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about the ways technology does good in the world. We'll be talking about Threads, obviously. It would be weird not to and we'll be looking into  how some decisions being made in the US courts are affecting tech.  Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest this week is Dan Owen.  Dan is a trustee and developer at BanktheFood, a charity on a mission to ensure food banks always have exactly what they need and not just baked beans. In this episode, Dan will give us his thoughts on the latest news, but tune in to next week's episode to hear more about the amazing work he is doing with BanktheFood, an award winner at the recent Tech4Good Awards. This week's topics: Good story of the week: It's goodish news for now because it seems everyone is being nice on Threads. Zuckerberg's Twitter Killer: Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news - Guardian  But is it all bollocks?  Zuckerberg's kindness pledge for Threads is ‘absurd', says Molly Russell charity - Guardian  Bad news story of the week: Seems the courts are going full Atwood in America: Let's take a look at those US Supreme Court decisions and how they will affect tech - The Register  Biden administration seeks emergency order halting ban on social media company contacts - Reuters  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to yet another season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. A podcast all about the ways technology does good in the world. Starting from next week, we've got a jam packed season for you, delving into all things tech and good. And bad. You'll hear from Dan at BanktheFood. We'll be talking to Phyllida Swift from Face Equality International, Rachel Pattinson from Open Lab at Newcastle Uni and Nicky Clegg will joining us from STEM Learning  We are looking forward to all of that and hope you are too!  In the meantime, we have something a little different for you for this bonus episode. We often chat to our wonderful guests, but we don't often tell you much about our team, other than of course important things like what their favourite pizza topping is, or if they were a cartoon character which would it be… so today we chat to the team with a series of mini interviews. Who you will hear (and when) : Tom Passmore (from 02:00) Tom tells us about his work with Dsposal, and their mission to make managing waste easier for everyone. If you want to hear more from Tom and his exploration of the Circular Economy, check out our special podcast series all about it.  Harry Bailly (from 08:50) As an agility coach, Harry tells us about his work training tech teams of all sizes, helping to improve agility, boost productivity and supporting wellbeing through mentoring, pair coding and process improvement. Fay Scofield (from 17:15) Fay is the founder of Catnip Comms: A social media consultancy with a focus on charities. She tells us all about the trials and tribulations of running a social media consultancy in the modern social media era. Paul Jakubowski (from 25:08) Producer Paul talks about his move to Norway and his work with No Isolation, and their mission to bring people together through warm technology and knowledge. There's a mention for an old TFGL favorite, the AV1 telepresence robot for managing persistent school absence, and Komp, the one button computer connecting generations.  Greg Ashton (from 33:30) Podcast research supremo Greg talks about his journey from the toxic toy industry to working as a Service Designer for the Department for Work and Pensions. Rebecca Rae-Evans (from 41:40) And finally, our host has the mic turned on her. She tells us about her return to the service designer world, after years of running and managing tech for good focussed design teams.

Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast.  In this episode we are talking about a Manchester-based startup that's trying to use data and AI to stop child labour. Primark and Apple will be delighted. We also take a look at the rise of religious versions of ChatGPT. Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team member Greg Ashton. Our special guest joining us to talk about our news stories this week is Scott Casson-Rennie, who is, amongst other things, COO of NGO FASD Ireland and host of the A and F podcast exploring adoption and fostering and other related topics. Tune in to the next episode where we get to know more about Scott. Good story of the week: Manchester UK based startup is trying to use data and AI to stop child labour: Data driven solutions to eradicate child labour in supply chains - HACE  Bad news story of the week: Worrying rise of religious versions of ChatGPT including GitaGPT, BibleGPT and Ask Quran: India's religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god — and condoning violence - Rest of World  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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. It's a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact. Basically just a bunch of cool people talking about all the cool stuff that all the cool kids love. We're super popular and have happy and fulfilling lives. In this episode we're talking about how the world has gotten a little more accessible. And we'll be talking about spies. But apparently not in an exciting and fun way. Bex is on hosting duties and she is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest is Arielle Tye, Head of Development at ProMo Cymru, a youth and community organisation specialising in digital services. Good story of the week Great round of accessibility wins: Greece makes nearly 200 beaches accessible with adaptive chairs - Independent.ie And more wilderness will be accessible to wheelchair users thanks to this tank looking wheelchair: These All-Terrain Wheelchairs Are Making Nature More Accessible (and Enjoyable) for Those With Mobility Issues - Nice News And moving away from wheelchairs, the already brilliant 'Be My Eyes' is due for an AI upgrade: Be My Eyes: Popular App Tests “Life-Altering” AI Tool to Help Visually Impaired People - Nice News  Bad news story of the week: The NSO and Pegasus story isn't over and it looks like the US government have been struggling to kill it because they keep buying it: A front company and a fake identity: How the U.S. came to use spyware it was trying to kill - Japan Times  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to another episode of the Tech for Good live podcast. We talk about tech that does some kind of social good, but we also like talking about how tech could maybe be a little less terrible. This may be our 240th episode, which is very silly. In one we are talking about the news, including Internet Ninjas and Elon Musk doing something new involving AI. Oh, good. Joining host Bex is Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski, and we are also joined by an old face/voice, Mille Vardheim. This week's topics: Good story of the week: Internet 'ninjas' fighting misinformation on Twitter. But are they in danger of becoming the trolls they hunt: The 'ninjas' fighting climate change denial on Twitter - BBC News  Bad news story of the week: After co signing the recent letter to demand a pause in AI development Elon Musk had started a project to develop his own competitor to ChatGPT: Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI, Financial Times reports - Reuters  ---------------------------- Next week we have an interview with our old friend Mark Walker from Ability net, an accessibility consultancy. We'll be talking about what's changed since we last spoke (pre-pandemic) and also about their up and coming Tech 4 Good Awards.  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 Tech for Good Live, a podcast about tech that does some good in this world…or is it where we complain about the bad stuff tech does? We don't know anymore. Or maybe we've never known. In this episode we're chatting about women starting businesses, who'd have thought it eh? We also talk about an unusual algorithm in Rotterdam. Joining host Bex is Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski. Our special guest this time is Sarah Miguel. Changemaker and tech enthusiast, wearer of a number of different hats, including Head of Fundraising at Safe Passage, Non Exec Director at FutureEverything and Trustee at MASH. Good story of the week: More women than ever are founding their own businesses The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship - Natwest Group And the FTSE 350 hits 40% female representation on their boards FTSE Women Leaders  Bad news story of the week: An algorithm used by the city of Rotterdam is having a huge impact on its citizens. Wired's investigation into the algorithm has discovered the usual ingrained biases Inside the Suspicion Machine - Wired  Lovely story of the week: Psychedelic mushroom ruling! Minds altered on psychedelics for mental health - Positive.news  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to another episode of Tech for Good Live! It's a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact on the world.  Joining host Bex is producer Paul and Greg Ashton. In this episode, we speak to last week's news guest in more detail.  Karen Dolva, co-founder of No Isolation talks to us about why the company was created and their mission to reduce social isolation and loneliness by developing warm technology, with the telepresence robot AV1 and the one-button computer Komp. ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 Tech for Good Live! It's a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact on the world. In this week's episode we are talking about ChatGPT because of course we are.  We are also partying like it's 2016 because we're discussing how elections are ripe for abuse. Joining host Bex we have TFGL team members, producer Paul and Greg Ashton. Our special guest this week is Karen Dolva, co-founder of No Isolation, a Norwegian company founded in 2015 with an aim to reduce social isolation and loneliness by developing warm technology. Good story of the week: Many many many years ago we talked about education needing to better adapt to students using Google. Now ChatGPT has presented an even more pressing need to adapt. This article shared by Karen presents some great discussions that are already happening: Artificial intelligence: Are we smart enough? - NRK (Norwegian)  In a weird turn, Bing's new version of ChatGPT has fallen in love with journalist Kevin Roose: Creepy Microsoft Bing Chatbot Urges Tech Columnist To Leave His Wife - Huffington Post   Bad news story of the week: It was something we all suspected. And now the Guardian and an international team of journalists have confirmed that not only are there organised efforts to sway elections through social media. But someone has turned it into a lucrative business: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections - The Guardian  ---------------------------- Come back for next week's podcast, where we'll have more of a proper chat with Karen about warm technology, digital inclusion and much more. As a teaser to that, No Isolation created the AV1, one of the Tech for Good Live team's favourite stories.. AV1 is a little robot who can enable children to get out and about when they otherwise wouldn't be able to. ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 the Tech for Good Live Podcast! We're still experimenting with our new podcast format (thanks for being our guinea pigs, listeners!) where we take a deep dive on a topic with our guest.  In this episode we're joined by Westlake, one of the founders and creative director of Flannel & Blade and we are discussing the ‘neo-luddites', a new wave of teens that seem to be turning their backs on their smartphones. We also take a quick look at some technology that is being used for good (for once!) with the Be My Eyes app. Fay Schofield is your host and she is joined by Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Luddite Teens: ‘Luddite' Teens Don't Want Your Likes - When the only thing better than a flip phone is no phone at all. - New York Times What is ‘neo-luddism', the rejection of modern technology? . The Star (not that one)  Apps doing good: Be My Eyes  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 the Tech for Good Live podcast! This is our third episode of 2023 and we're a wee bit excited. If you're new here, we get together about tech for good, tech for bad and everything in between! In this episode we are talking about the future of social media and AI generated art. Fay Schofield is your host and she is joined by Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Our guest to discuss this week's topics is Westlake. Storyteller, editor, cultural producer and network weaver with twenty years communications experience. Founder of the creative collective - Flannel & Blade. Born in Blighty, living in NYC. This weeks stories: Co-founders of Instagram think they've found the future of social media. And it's not video. The issues with Twitter seem to have energised new innovation in social media, could this be the start of a new era? Instagram's co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text - The Verge  Picking up on a topic we touched on a few weeks ago, AI generated "art". There's now a number of lawsuits including in the US and UK: First AI Art Generator Lawsuits Threaten Future of Emerging Tech - Bloomberg Law  Florida high school athletes won't have to report their periods after emergency vote - NPR ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to the Tech for Good Live Podcast, where, yep you guessed it, we talk about how tech can be used for social good. But also how the bad stuff just keeps getting in the way.  Joining host Bex is producer Paul, Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore. In this episode, we are having a chat with our special guest Alex Nelson, Principal Designer at Hala Systems, who develops cutting edge humanitarian technology for conflict zones, like early warning systems for hospitals and schools in Syria to allow them to evacuate during bombings.  We find out more about the challenges he faces in that role, there's a plea for tech and design companies to do more to support right to left text and Arabic in their tools, and we hear his thoughts on the tech world at the moment. ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to the Tech for Good Live podcast. We're back after a surprise full season break,  and raring to go trying out a whole new podcast format, discussing the good, the bad and the ugly side of tech. We are talking about how AI might help cheating in exams, but also might help with mental health diagnosis. Sounds like a win win. And we return to our usual segment  “What's Elon done now!?” Joining host Bex is producer Paul, Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore. Our special guest is Alex Nelson, Principal Designer at Hala Systems, who develops cutting edge humanitarian technology for conflict zones, like early warning systems for hospitals and schools in Syria to allow them to evacuate during bombings. Good story of the week: AI is having a wild ride right now, excitement over ChatGPT turned to fear of cheating in exams and other misuse and back to exciting new uses for these AI tools including mental health diagnosis: Listening For Illness: Your Voice May Soon Help Detect Health Problems - Worldcrunch  Kintsugi Named One of Fierce Healthcare's 2023 ‘Fierce 15' Companies - Silicon  But it seems some need more caution and common sense in considering how we use AI: A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster. - Washington Post Bad news story of the week: In a continued effort to throw the baby out with the bath water, Twitter gets rid of third party apps, remembers a subscription needs some kind of benefit, and suggests they'll have an ad free version soon (and not because all the advertisers have left): The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today - The Verge Elon Musk admits Twitter has too many ads, says fix is coming - Tech Crunch  Ugly story of the week: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic - Time ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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, hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast!  In this bumper episode we are talking about home blood pressure monitoring, the fact that charity staff are paid less than other sectors, Google's impact on democracy, and partying - Finnish style. Host Fay Schofield is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Harry Bailey. Our special guest for this episode is Dr Anas Nader - Anas is an A&E doctor whose experience of burnout inspired a health tech initiative, Patchwork Health, which is helping to make NHS careers more sustainable and solve the current staffing crisis This episode was recorded August 24th 2022. Stat of the week  New study finds at home blood pressure monitoring using an app don't make the process any better Apps don't make at-home blood pressure monitoring better - The Verge  ORCHA Charity news of the week Charity staff paid 7% less than other sectors - UK Fundraising  Tech news of the week Incremental changes to the way Google works have damaged democracy and society more widely: Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy - Wired  And finally… Women in Finland are posting videos of themselves partying in solidarity with their prime minister Sanna Marin - Twitter  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! If you're new here, this is a show where we gather together to discuss tech being for good, but most likely tech being used for EVIL *manic laugh*.  In this episode we're chatting about a generous (edit: former) CEO, a recruitment crisis in the care sector and iRobot (not the crappy Will Smith film). Host Bex is joined by TFGL pod regular Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Our guest for this episode is Ume Pandya. Ume is the Design & Product Director at HealthLumen. He is also a Venture Partner at the impact investor Bethnal Green Ventures. This episode was recorded on August 16th 2022 Stat of the week  CEO Dan Price from Gravity Payments paid his staff £66k as standard and is calling for other companies to do the same: CEO who pays staff $80K minimum wage calls for companies to pay a fair wage - LadBible UPDATE:  Dan Price, CEO who cut his pay so workers made at least $70,000, resigns - Washington Post Charity news of the week Crisis in the social care sector as vacancies increase by 52% over the last 12 months Government intervention needed to curb the workforce crisis in social care - Care England  Tech news of the week Venture firm a16z proving once again that having all that money doesn't make you any smarter, as they once again fund Adam Neumann. a16z says ‘WeBack' to WeWork's Neumann with its biggest check ever - TechCrunch  This investment in Flow comes just after reports surfaced that VC Billionaire Marc Andreessen fought against a proposal to build new affordable housing units in his ultra-wealthy hometown of Atherton, CA.  Rant of the week  The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes - Wired And finally… Some loon made an exo-suit for a snake  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 listeners and welcome to yet another episode of the tech for good live podcast. This time we are talking about esports, new charity related domains, and we'll be answering the question, “is web3 dying?” because it's a 45 minute show and we can definitely wrap that up in a 10 minute segment. Host Bex is joined by TFGL regular Greg Ashton. Our special guest for this episode is Craig Steele from Digital Skills Education If you know a young gamer inspired by esports - they can get Craigs book “Ultimate Gamer: Career Mode - Everything You Need To Be A Gaming Industry Pro” and learn about all the creative and technical jobs in the gaming industry. It's available wherever books are sold, and in libraries across the country. This episode was recorded on August 9th 2022 Stat of the week  The Commonwealth Games hosted an esports pilot event. Data from the Commonwealth Games Federation suggests that 16-24-year-olds are more likely to watch esports tournaments (32%) than traditional sports tournaments (31%), with 44% watching live streams of video games. Commonwealth Games: 'An education in what esports actually is' - BBC News  Charity news of the week New domains added to .org family:  New charity-related domains released - UK Fundraising  Annual public meeting for the charity commission is going hybrid on 12th October - Gov.uk Tech news of the week Is Web3 dying? After crypto's crash and NFTs' collapse, Web3 idealists race to prove that the dream of decentralization isn't dead -  Fortune And finally… Our guest has a Twitter bot which writes tweets that fit pretty well into the wider Twitter-sphere: Craig Bot    ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 everyone, and welcome to the Tech for Good Live podcast, a podcast for the curious minds out there who are intrigued by the prospects of using technology for people and planet. More often than not it's a space for us to come together weekly to discuss what's going on in the tech and civil society world. In this episode we discuss the stagnation of the UK economy and a startup hoping to disrupt the VC experience. Host Dama Sathianathan is joined by TFGL podcast regular Greg Ashton. Our special guest for this episode is Louise Marston from Resolution Ventures, the venture arm of the Resolution Foundation. Stat of the week  The Resolution Foundation delivered their interim Economy 2030 report. Stagnation Nation - The interim report of The Economy 2030 Inquiry Charity news of the week The next wave of dormant assets will unlock around £740m worth of new funding for England.  Matt Leach and Seb Elsworth: Dormant assets distribution – two complementary approaches - Civil Society The Prince of Wales Foundation will not be investigated for accepting £1 million from Bin Laden family Regulator rules out action against Prince of Wales charity over bin Laden donation - ThirdSector  Tech news of the week Startup, Landscape, is trying to disrupt the VC experience with a Glassdoor style reviews platform for founders. And now they are launching a new platform for VC scouting. Shaking up the early-stage Landscape - Preseed Now And finally… The England women's team win the Euros and Football Rebooted are going to capitalise on the renewed interest by giving people the chance to Freeport unused football boots so they can distribute them to those who can't afford them: ‘A milestone': Euro 2022 helps reboot campaign to break down barriers - Positive.news  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to the hottest pod on record. The Tech for Good Live Podcast. With the entire planet ablaze, some of the volunteers here at Tech for Good Live have decided to spend another hour in front of screens to talk about all the key topics going down this week. And what a blistering show we have lined up for you.  We talk about my Tom's favourite subject - waste and recycling! What a treat. We hear about the roasting that International aid organisations took from the University of Oxford. And is Meta going to bask in the glow of appreciation for its first annual human rights report? Hold onto your earbuds everybody - this one is going to be a scorcher!!! The heat affected podcast record left us with a skeleton crew of Tom Passmore on hosting duties, joined by fellow TFGL team member Greg Ashton. Stat of the week  The big plastic count results are in and the shocking results suggest that the UK's homes produce 96.6 billion pieces of plastic packaging waste a year, with only 12% being recycled in the UK.  'Jaw-dropping' amount of plastic thrown away by British households every year revealed - Sky News    ‘We haven't been given the money to get it right': why so much of the UK is rubbish at recycling - Guardian  Charity news of the week New study finds NGOs are more focused on internal dynamics than resolving how their organisations fits into the world we're in: International aid sector in a ‘crisis of legitimacy', study finds - Guardian  Tech news of the week Meta published its first annual human rights report: Dunstan Allison-Hope / Twitter  And finally… Short and medium train journeys to be free in Spain following similar move in Germany to provide €9 train tickets: Spain: Short and medium distance trains will be free this autumn, thanks to a windfall tax - Euronews  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 the Tech for Good Live podcast. What a week – there's a heatwave afoot, mountains of ice cream are being consumed and we've all become starry-eyed by the photos coming back from the James Webb telescope. We also have an action packed episode for you! This week we are talking about an AI translation project from Facebook, the cost of living crisis, Uber being shady and much more. Host Fay Schofield is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski. Our special guest for this episode is Sam Wheeler, Director, co-owner and ‘Admiral of Ops' at tech for good app development and web design company, Big Lemon. Stat of the week  Facebook open sources their AI universal translation project of over 200 languages including what are known as "low-resourced languages": Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages - The Verge  Charity news of the week New NPC report warns funders of the impact of the cost of living crisis and calls for them to act: Inflation could ‘engulf an already battered' voluntary sector, think tank warns - Third Sector  Tech news of the week Quick mention: Match Group is bringing Tinder's free background checks to more dating apps - The Verge  Main Story: Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals - The Guardian  Sad of the week Paul's fundraiser to help give back to those who supported his sister in her battle against mitochondrial disease. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/in-memory-of-laura-jakubowski --------------  Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 the Tech for Good Live Podcast. If you're new here, it's a podcast all about using technology to have a positive impact on people and planet. But more often than not it's a place for mates to come together and rant about the state of the world, and damn do we have lots to rant about.  This week we cover public perceptions of transgender folk, controversial funding announcements and of course we talk about the what's going on in the US - where firearms apparently have more rights than people who menstruate. Dama Sathianathan is on hosting duties and she is joined by fellow TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest for this episode is Pete Beckett,Tech startup founder at Ethiot.  Stat of the week  New report from the 'More in common' think tank find only 2 percent think ‘the debate about transgender people' is one of the most important issues facing the country. With most preferring a 'live and let live' approach:  Britons and Gender Identity - More in Common  Transgender athletes: New rules probably also in athletics  Charity news of the week MP John Nicholson questions National Lottery Community Funding for the controversial LGB Alliance:  MP queries National Lottery Community Fund's ‘disturbing' decision to fund LGB Alliance -  ThirdSector Tech news of the week Meta bans employees from discussing Roe v Wade:  Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe v. Wade decision and is deleting internal messages that mention abortion: report - Insider  Whilst other companies promise to cover healthcare costs for their staff: How Apple, Disney and Other Companies Have Responded to Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade - CNET Nice of the week  Deep Reckonings  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to the Tech for Good Live podcast! In case you're new here, come on in and take a seat, if you're an old hat - thanks for sticking around. This podcast is all about discussing how we use technology for social good, and how more often than not it ends up being used for evil. In this episode we're chatting about parents giving their kids career advice, fake social media accounts and The Handmaid's Tale. Lots of cheery stuff then. Hosting this week is Fay Schofield, and she's joined by fellow Tech For Good Live team member Greg Ashton. Our special guest this week is Alice Thwaite. Founder of Hattusia, a tech ethics campus, community and consultancy. Discussed in this episode: Stat of the week  More than 75% of parents felt that giving relevant career advice to their children was almost impossible in such a fast-changing jobs market ‘How is that a real job?' Parents struggle to keep up with children's career options - The Guardian  Charity news of the week Raleigh international announced its closure this week Raleigh International announces closure with immediate effect - UK Fundraising Tech news of the week New app from the Centre For the Protection of National Infrastructure (yes that's a thing) helps you identify fake social accounts to help people avoid sharing misinformation ‘Think Before You Link': app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles - The Guardian Nonce-sense from Google: Mass confusion as Google asks users to learn ‘what a nonce is' - Independent And finally… Margret Atwood auctions fireproof edition of The Handmaid's Tale - Instagram / Washington Post ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 the Tech for Good Live podcast where we talk about technology for good, live. In this episode we talk about bias, privilege, and how rhetoric can take hold of our beliefs even when they can be clearly proven wrong. I know that is a shocker for everyone. And that's why you listen to this podcast. We also discuss exciting developments in the virtual reality space and how it is being applied to medical science.  Hera Hussain is our host and she is joined by fellow TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest this week is Graeme Heyes, researcher in sustainable design innovation and facilitator of sustainable design sprints with a PhD in sustainable business model design and environmental management.  Stat of the week  People from societally advantaged groups think equality-promoting policies will affect them negatively, even if they would actually benefit Privileged people misjudge effects of pro-equality policies on them - New Scientist 1 in 3 U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains. - US News Charity news of the week Financial times and Infosys demonstrate the importance of climate change policy in an excellent way: The Climate Game  Tech news of the week NeuroVirt brings full-stack VR treatment to physical rehab: Better rehab in virtual reality - PreSeed Now  And finally… Kickstarter for a football which is also a portable generator - Soccket ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. It's a podcast all about using technology to have a good social impact.  This week we are talking about privacy and how the tech world is shaping the age-old fight for reproductive rights in one of the world's richest and most powerful nations. And it's not just about one country, but how it's a problem for all of us - everywhere. We also talk about what period-tracking apps are tracking, and if and who and what they're selling about us. But it's not all grim. We've also found the strangest brand collaboration. It's really bizarre. Hera Hussain is on hosting duties and she is joined by fellow TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski. Our special guest this week is Kathryn Kosmides, joining us from New York. She's the founder of Garbo, a new kind of online background check. Discussed in this episode: Stat of the week  It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards. Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics - Vice  Cycle-tracking apps stand behind their privacy policies as Roe teeters - The Verge Charity news of the week Does this win the award for strangest campaign collaboration:  You Can Now Pick Up A Designer Scarf Alongside Your Pret Lunch Thanks To A New Charity Initiative - Elle Mental Health Awareness Week 2022. The theme is loneliness - i Tech news of the week Tinder will let you perform background checks before swiping right for $2.50 - Fortune EU's new rules for Big Tech will come into force in Spring 2023, says Vestager - TechCrunch  Nice of the week  It was local council election time in the UK recently and we wanted to give a shout out to Democracy Club, a civic tech initiative, whose data was used by Councils, Electoral Commission and other government websites. And finally… You think the roads are shit now, wait until they're made out of used nappies  - Positive.news ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 back to yet another episode of the tech for good live podcast. It's a podcast where a bunch of mates get together and talk about using technology to have a positive impact on people and planet.  In this week's show we talk about e-scooters. Are they an illegal form of transport meeting an unmet need in society, or are they the one thing even more embarrassing than running a podcast about tech for good? In a shocking turn of events, Amazon continues to be what we've come to expect of Amazon and workers rights. What next you ask? They're apparently hiding workplace injury figures by getting staff to work "light duties" for nonprofits. And some boffins have realized that video calls can curb creativity. Joining host Dama Sathianathan we have TFGL team members Bex Rae-Evans, Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Our special guest this week is Max Wilson, founder of Spokesafe, who provide cyclists, couriers, delivery drivers, scooter riders and everyone in between with access to a network of secure places to park. Discussed in this episode: Stat of the week  Despite being illegal to use in the UK, 1 million e-scooters have been sold since 2018:   ‘I know they're exciting – but calm down!' Britain's love-hate affair with the e-scooter - The Guardian  Charity news of the week Amazon hides workplace injury figures by getting staff to work "light duties" for nonprofits: Amazon accused of using charity work scheme to conceal warehouse incident rates - Engadget Charity digital skills survey 2022 is live! Take the survey here  Tech news of the week Peer reviewed report finds video calls curb creativity: Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation - Nature  Does Zoom doom creativity in the workplace? - Protocol  Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return - FT ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to another episode of the tech for good live podcast, a podcast all about tech being used for social good. Or more likely, tech being used for social bad and how that makes us all really sad.  We are pleased to say that we've not been bought by Elon Musk. But Twitter has, we talk about that, it would be weird not to, right? We also discuss VPN's, Facebook, harassment and other fun. Bex is back in the hosting seat and is joined by TFGL regular Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Our special guest this week is Amanda Manyame, Digital Law and Rights Consultant at Equality Now. Amanda advises and conducts research on digital laws, policies, human rights and anticipates the legal risks and harms associated with technological innovation. Links from this episode: Stat of the week  8/14 of the top VPNs include trackers How Private Is My VPN? - The Markup  Charity news of the week White co-founder of No White Saviours accused of misuse of funds and harassment of her black co-founder - Twitter / @lovettejallow Tech news of the week Response to Facebook's request to dismiss the $150 billion lawsuit pulls no punches - Twitter / @jason_kint And Elon Musk couldn't be arsed to solve world hunger for $6 billion but buys Twitter for $44 billion - Associated Press  Nice of the week  Protecting people's rights in the digital age: a Universal Declaration on Digital Rights - YouTube / Equality Now Women Leading in Artificial Intelligence, Equality Now proposes to mobilize the international community towards the creation of a Universal Declaration on Digital Rights (UDDR) - Equality Now And finally… Someone made a light that checks the local council website and tells you which bin to put out - Twitter / @tabard ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 to another episode of Tech for Good Live, a podcast all about using technology to drive positive outcomes for people and planet. But more often than not, highlighting the many ways tech is causing havoc in our daily lives. If you're a long time listener, you'll know that we're quite a cynical bunch, but when we do hear stories of tech used to drive positive impact in the world, we're all the more ecstatic and can't wait to tell you more about them.  This week we are talking about rampant inequality and its effects on people's happiness, a new social media platform designed to stop you from doom scrolling (hurrah!), and the metaverse coming for your soul. Dama Sathianathan is on hosting duties and is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski. Our special guest this week is Kathryn Dingle, Digital Product Manager at NPC, an organisation helping charities, funders and policy makers to maximise social impact. She is also a volunteer Co-Director for IC Change UK, a campaign to create a world where women are free from violence. Stat of the week  Countries that allow economic inequality to increase as they grow richer make their citizens less happy - The Guardian  Charity news of the week Plans for a new social media platform focused on positivity. Where a 'like' can help find charities: The new social media platform designed to stop you ‘scrolling through bile' - Positive.News  Supernova  Tech news of the week The Metaverse is coming for your soul:  Metaverse Company to Offer Immortality Through ‘Live Forever' Mode - Vice This has already been done by the brilliant Pete Trainor: Pete and James Nice of the week  Covid vaccination technology may be used as first heart attack ‘cure' - Standard  And finally… Exo-seleton helps boy with cerebral palsy walk  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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! 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, Business for Social Responsibility, states Facebook's expansion of encryption would do more good than harm: Meta's encryption plan has human rights benefits, report says - Washington Post   Charity news of the week New Greenpeace campaign asks for the public's help to understand what plastic we're using and throwing away: The Big Plastic Count  Tech news of the week First Amazon union formed in the US, Amazon is obviously fighting this and has plans to block words like "Union" in its internal messaging app:  ‘A marathon, not a sprint': how Chris Smalls defied Amazon to form a union - The Guardian  Amazon says New York union organizers gave workers weed to help secure unionization votes - Insider  These are the words Amazon's planned employee chat app reportedly won't let you say - The Verge  Nice of the week  Advancing Healthcare Awards Robot Cat Cam ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 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 week  A Kirby song cover just won a Grammy - The Verge And finally… You can enjoy sushi in VR and there's something called a "butter device"! ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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.

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 - Metro  Bloomberg Instagram post   Charity news of the week 14,000,000 shopping baskets full of food waste could be saved along with 1,110 truck loads of plastic if organisations follow sustainability charity, WRAPS, 3 recommendations: Reducing household food waste and plastic packaging - WRAP Tech news of the week Social media and modern warfare: Is Russia winning the disinformation war in Ukraine? - New Scientist The first TikTok war: how are influencers in Russia and Ukraine responding? - The Guardian  Ukraine invasion: Russia restricts social media access - BBC news  Tech companies rally to help their teams in Ukraine: Tech companies mobilise plans to help employees in Ukraine - Metro  And finally… $4.37 billion sale of offshore wind farm in the US shows a huge financial shift to renewables - Upstream Online   ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 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?   Attack on ‘woke' charities has backfired, campaigners say - The Guardian Tech news of the week Apple employees use Android to plan unionisation secretly:  Apple's retail employees are reportedly using Android phones and encrypted chats to keep unionization plans secret - Android Police  What does the future hold for employment law with the metaverse (paywall but basic premise is do normal employment laws apply): Metaverse vs employment law: the reality of the virtual workplace - Financial Times And finally… Have you been feeling suerza or sounder recently?   ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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.

This week I was able to go to a galaxy far, far away aboard the Halcyon Starcruiser. Disney and Lucasfilm invited me to check out the new 2-night Galactic Starcruiser experience where you are the hero, villain or smuggler. You board the Halcyon and become part of the Star Wars universe. You can fly solo or bring the family. Cosplay is encouraged. This adventure takes place between Episode VIII The Last Jedi and Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker.  After my journey abroad the Halcyon Starcruiser and a stop in Batuu over at Galaxy's Edge that is located in Hollywood Studios I was able to chat with executives over at Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Imagineering team about how they created this experience. You can check out the interviews here at the Art of Fatherhood or wherever you get your podcasts.  People In This Podcast Episode Talking About The Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser I grew up on Star Wars. Star Wars has helped shape me into the person I am today. So when I got the opportunity to chat with Doug Chiang, Matt Martin, Greg Ashton and Travis Finstein I was beyond excited. I also had the pleasure of speaking with Ann Morrow, who is the Executive Producer and Executive Creative Director at Walt Disney Imagineering. Other interview in this are part of the Walt Disney Imagineering team and photo team.  I will be sharing more stories, photos and videos during my time on the Halcyon Starcruiser. From Lightsaber Training to the food to the adventures you will go on while you are in the Star Wars universe. Feel free to reach out via email or put your questions in the comment section you may have in regards to the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser.  Please note: Disney World hosted me to check out the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Adventure. My thoughts are my own. 

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 rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years - The Verge  And finally… ‘Thanks to everyone at Asda': success for anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. - The Guardian   ----------------------------   Apply for Becky's (soon to be) old job!  jobs.rnli - Strategic Social Media Manager   ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 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  Tech news of the week From the company who perfected harassment at a distance, Meta/Facebook introducing distancing to 'prevent' harassment in the metaverse: Meta is adding a ‘personal boundary' to VR avatars to stop harassment - The Verge  Sounds like their vision of the metaverse isn't translating into dollars though: For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble? - The Guardian Oh and they might turn their services off of they don't get their way in Europe: Meta (FB) May Shut Down Facebook, Instagram in Europe Over GDPR Data Rules - Bloomberg Nice of the week x2! Wingspan Boardgame Despite Don't Look Up's doomsdaying about tech billionaires (and governments, media) … NASA scientists are working hard successfully stop asteroids, actually!  The quest to avert an asteroid apocalypse is going surprisingly well - Vox     And finally… Nuclear fusion is getting closer: Scientists break through major milestone in harnessing fusion energy - Independent   ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 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 only tell a fragment of the story of inflation, and grossly underestimate the true cost-of-living crisis. In 2012, 10 stock cubes from Sainsbury's Basics range were 10p. In 2022, those same stock cubes are 39p, but only available in chicken or beef. The cheapest vegetable stock cubes are, inexplicably, £1 for 10.  We're pricing the poor out of food in the UK – that's why I'm launching my own price index - The Guardian Charity news of the week Major international aid charities combine forces in a new campaign "We the helpers". UK international aid charities unite in major awareness building campaign - UK Fundraising Tech news of the week Even the guy who designed Google's headquarters thinks "fancy" tech office are a bad idea: The man behind Google's Silicon Valley headquarters says fancy tech offices are ‘dangerous' - SFGATE  Google nest are trying to gamify saving energy: Nest Renew - Google  Nice of the week  AI tech to monitor depression - Thymia And finally… #DronesForGood dog saved from rising tide by a sausage dangled from a drone: Stranded dog saved from rising tide after rescuers attach sausage to drone - The Guardian    ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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! 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 Charities will be most successful in dealing with government culture wars when they work to create consensus: Culture wars' a key political driver for charities in the year ahead, NCVO predicts - Third Sector Tech news of the week Roblox is a community built gaming platform that is accused of exploiting its creators. Not uncommon but these creators are children: The trouble with Roblox, the video game empire built on child labour - The Guardian  And finally… 32nd Human Rights Watch report noted that autocrats faced a significant backlash in 2021, with millions of people taking to the streets in countries like Brazil, Hungary and Uganda. It also highlighted the trend for opposition parties to form coalitions to challenge autocrats, citing the Czech Republic and Israel as places where this has succeeded. Similar alliances have been formed in Hungary and Turkey.  Human Rights Watch World Report 2022    D&AD Impact awards open for applications  https://www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-impact/  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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.

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

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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 up will help you to identify your strengths and the gaps your organisation is facing. Head to digital.checkup.scot to find out more. Links from the episode: Stat of the week  17 websites that were putting their customers' accounts at risk of hijacking after a SIM-swap including WordPress: After the T-Mobile breach, companies are preventing customers from securing their accounts - TechRadar  Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online - The Register  Charity news of the week Text donations soared to record high last year, new figures show - ThirdSector  Tech news of the week Apple dealt huge blow over iPhone App Store as judge instructs it to make major concessions to developers - Independent  And is anyone still using Apple pay: Barely anyone is using Apple Pay in stores anymore - TechRadar And finally… Eight years and 2m arachnids later, spider silk fabrics go on show in London    ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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 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 Tech news of the week Gun licence applicants in UK face social media checks after Plymouth attack - The Guardian Incels: A new terror threat to the UK? - BBC News  Nice of the week  Fundraiser to buy life-saving RNLI hovercraft named after Nigel Farage hits more than £40,000 - Indy100 And finally… This Leeds dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children living with medical disorders  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.  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 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.