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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 a new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It's a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact.  And of course that means that this week we are talking about knitting. Apparently some tech dudes bought knitting.com and it sounds like they're the absolute worst.  Tom Hanks continues to show his range. He's leapt into a volcano, he's dated a mermaid, he got really big that one time, and now he's selling dental plans online. Only, it's not really him. We discuss the implications of AI and owning our own identities.  Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest for the next couple of episodes is Aurelie Lionet. Aurelie is a seasoned Service Designer and one of the four co-founding members of Design Declares, which is a group of designers working together to declare a climate and ecological emergency. They're committed to building a community and creating resources to adapt design practice towards climate action and regeneration.  Good story of the week: Knitters vs the tech bros The all-out revolt against Knitting.com helps explain boycotts at Reddit and Etsy - Quartz Bad news story of the week: AI Tom Hanks promoting “some dental plan” Beware the AI-generated Tom Hanks. - The Verge  And finally 4.5m tall, 3.5ton £2.5 million robot suit Japan startup unveils 15-foot robot suit for space exploration - The 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.  Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski In this episode we chat to Nicki Clegg from STEM Learning UK, finding out more about STEM Learning UK's vision to have a world-leading STEM education for every young person in the UK. Links from the chat: Smashing Stereotypes in the Tech sector to attract the future workforce Tickets, Tue 26 Sep 2023 at 14:00 | Eventbrite Become a STEM Ambassador ---------------------------- 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.  In this episode we are talking about some good news for environmental activists, as well as the good, and the bad of social media… and is it possible to have any kind of decent balance there? Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest this time round is Nicki Clegg from STEM Learning UK. Nikki will be discussing our news topics with us this week. Come back for the next episode where we will be finding out more about STEM Learning UK's vision to have a world-leading STEM education for every young person in the UK. Good story of the week: Some good news on the environment front. 16 young people win a court case in Montana, holding the state to account for failing to protect the environment and investing in fossil fuels. Young people who sued their state over climate change notch their first victory - The Verge  And analysis shows we've been overestimating the amount of plastic in our oceans by as much as 30x! Analysis Shows We've Been Overestimating the Amount of Plastic in Oceans by 30x - Good News Network  Bad news story of the week: If you're over a certain age Tik Tok is the source of all our current evils. At least on social media. But is it that simple? With social media in a time of change, can we balance the good with the bad on social media? Is the human race even capable of not making a mess of it? TikTok has its faults, but it's also diverse, eye-opening and completely full of life - The Guardian  TikTok users in UK to be left with ‘more toxic' version of app, say campaigners - The Guardian  And finally… Cooking just got a whole lot easier…especially if weapons of mass destruction are on the menu AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread sandwich” - Ars Technica ---------------------------- 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. A podcast about tech being used for good, but also how it's being used for bad and how that needs to stop, please and thank you.  Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest is Rachel Pattinson from Open Lab at Newcastle University, which is a world-leading research group in interaction design and ubiquitous computing. In this episode we talk to Rachel in more detail about all things uni, research, academia and using tech for social good. ---------------------------- 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. A podcast about tech being used for good, but also how it's being used for bad and how that needs to stop, please and thank you.  In this episode we are talking about charity donation trends, online identity and Billion Dollar Barbie.  Joining host Bex are Tech For Good Live team members, Greg Aston, Tom Passmore and Paul Jakubowski Our special guest to talk about this week's news items is Rachel Pattinson from Open Lab at Newcastle University, which is a world-leading research group in interaction design and ubiquitous computing. Join us for the next episode where we talk to Rachel in more detail about all things uni, research, academia and using tech for social good. Good story of the week: A good mood might be the key to donations: People who donate to charity seem to have one thing in common - Quartz  Bad news story of the week: Online identity and tokenisation is picking up interest in tech again. But are the tech bros the right people to solve digital identity? Kenya suspends Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto project - The Verge  Are you ready to have your identity tokenized? - Quartz  And finally: Greta Gerwig is first female director $1 billion at the box office: Greta Gerwig becomes the first female director to make $1billion at the box office - Far Out ---------------------------- 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.

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 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.

Hello and a warm podcast welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We've a HOT episode of the podcast lined up for you.  The planet is dying and the chances of us saving it are dwindling. So yeah, we'll be chatting about that. Surely a podcast can fix it.  We've got some positive news about a partnership between the wonderful Chayn and Bumble.  There's some legitimate concerns about Apple's new privacy plans, so we'll be talking about that, and much more... Joining host Bex we have TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore. Our special guest is Louise Corden. Louise has been Lead Digital Producer at NSPCC for the last four years, and is just about to move to the Design, Data and Tech team at Citizens Advice. This week's topics: Stat of the week Not a stat, a fact, we're f*cked: Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' - BBC News  And political will is still questionable: The perverse argument against the bipartisan infrastructure bill: It wants to address climate change - Washington Post And the likes Facebook allow climate misinformation: Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds - The Guardian Charity news of the week Chayn to team up with dating app Bumble to provide online trauma support  Tech news of the week The ethical challenge for Apple of balancing privacy and protecting children: Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images - BBC News  A protest has already been raised: whatsapp and privacy experts sound alarm about privacy implications of new apple photo scanning feature - Telegraph But tech companies can and should do more. NSPCC & IWF recently launched a tool to help young people get nude images of themselves removed from the Web : New tool for under-18s to report nude photos of themselves online And finally…  Whilst they might get a bad rep, big cities can actually protect us from depression - 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 back to another Tech For Good Live podcast. Our plan for the show this week is to spread delight as we highlight just how deep COVID misinformation goes. We talk excitedly about the league table of trust, and with a joie de vivre we discuss digital security in China. Hosting this show this time around is Tom Passmore and he's joined by Greg Ashton. Our special guest is David Higgins, variously CTO for the original Learndirect online learning platform, Programme Director for the NHS Care Record, Security Cleared Odd-Bod at the Home Office and FCO, Programme and Security Director for the 2nd Generation UK Smart Meters Network, Cabinet Office High Risk programme reviewer, occasional CNI Security consultant and all round advisor for technical and security things. That's a lot of things. This week's topics: Stat of the week: Majority of covid misinformation linked to just 12 people - The Guardian It seems the claims of a culture war in the UK are being exaggerated by the press and public figures - Ipsos  The Express provides an example of how this story can be twisted to say the opposite Charity news of the week:   Independent study carried out by Yonder, finds that charities are among the most trusted groups in society, third only after doctors and the police - GOV.UK Tech news of the week:  Digital security is an increasingly hot topic with several countries moving to sanction China for a Microsoft back earlier this year. UK and allies accuse Chinese state-backed group of Microsoft hack - The Guardian Ransomware is classified as a threat to National Security (go figure eh?) Ken McCallum (Dir Gen Security Services address) on how cyber is now an undeclared war. - MI5 Wanted: State-backed bandits planning cyberattacks on US infrastructure. Reward: $10m - The Register And finally…  An article written by a cat - Kotaku ---------------------------- 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 another exciting episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast! In this show we have a new controversy on TikTok, The UN is making new mistakes with data, and Facebook is trying something new - they are attempting to not be the vilest pieces of dog excrement on the planet. Hosting this show this time around is Tom Passmore and he's joined by ever-present potty mouth Greg Ashton. And we have guests! Plural!  Arda Awais & Savena Surana co-creators of Identity 2.0, a creative studio working at the intersection of digital rights, technology and Identity. For more information and to get tickets for their exhibition ‘This Machine Is Black', head to identity20.org/thismachineisblack Discussed on the show: Stat of the week There are 168,000 videos on TikTok using Megan Thee Stallion's new song Thot Shit, but unlike WAP – Stallion and Cardi B's last viral song – there is not a single trending dance to it. This is part of an indefinite strike by black creators - The Guardian Charity news of the week The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR, reportedly shared Rohingya biometric data with the government of Myanmar. An act they claim is appropriate as refugees gave consent - The New Humanitarian Tech news of the week Like a stopped clock, Facebook are occasionally correct Rant of the week UK Government are using their personal Gmail accounts to conduct business - linking to the use of Whatsapp and Signal to send disappearing messages. - The Guardian And finally…  Cloudy with a chance of meatballs has become reality - New Scientist ---------------------------- 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.  This time, we are talking about a universal basic income trial. FUN. We discuss institutional racism and bias in the charity sector: Absolutely NOT FUN. And finally, Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are about to have a big fight. Jonny Rae-Evans is on hosting duties and he is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore.  Our Special guest this week is Mia Peters, a user centred service design and research practitioner with extensive public sector experience. This week’s topics: Stat of the week Two year trial into basic income ends in America and finds find people on the guaranteed income found full-time work at more than twice the rate of non-recipients - Positive.News Charity news of the week Another charity reports institutional racism and bias - The Guardian Tech news of the week Reaction to the ‘changes’ at Basecamp, that were announced in Jason Fried’s post this week Things are about to get tense between two of the biggest tech companies - NY Times And finally…  Black mirror wasn't far off, get fit and power your devices ---------------------------- 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.  If you’d like to be thanked on the podcast for giving us some cash, contact us on hello@techforgood.live. I promise we’ll spend it on transcription and not on kittens.

Hello lonely and bored people, welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast! We’re talking about some shocking stories. The Washington Post reports that if you kick liars off twitter, then there is less lying on Twitter. There’s some stats to back up this unbelievable statement. We’ve a Third Sector News report that politicians are having some major beef with campaigners and activists. Again, very new information. There’s also talk of a sweetheart deal between Facebook and Google. This is mostly surprising because Zuckerberg is a lifeless robot; he doesn't have the capability to recognise when something is sweet, nor understand what a heart is.  Who knows, maybe one day Zuckerberg will encounter his own Dorothy Gale. She’ll have a little Toto with her, she’ll be wearing ruby slippers, there will be singing and dancing, and then she’ll throw water on Zuckerburg and we’ll all finally be free of this nightmare. Joining host Bex, we have Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore from the TFGL team, and our special guest this week is Matt Collins. Matt runs Platypus Digital, a digital marketing agency for charities.  This week’s topics Stat of the week:  78% decrease in misinformation to following trump's removal from social media - Washington Post Charity news of the week:   Hostile relations between politicians and campaigners - Third Sector Update expected in the spring on the guidance for financial investments for charities - Third Sector Tech news of the week:  Further evidence of sweetheart deal between Facebook and Google revealed - Engadget Nice of the week: TikTok crowdsourced help for medication pill bottle - Scoop And finally…  35% read more in the pandemic leading to a slight increase in independent bookshops - Lithub ---------------------------- 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.  If you’d like to be thanked on the podcast for giving us some cash, contact us on hello@techforgood.live. I promise we’ll spend it on transcription and not on kittens.

In this episode, Sarah talks to Sophie Walker and Tom Passmore, of Dsposal, about why they care about rubbish data.   Both Dsposal, and its sister offering Your Dsposal, aim to combat waste crime through effective use of data, and are built on linked data from the Environment Agency. From early work talking to residents about food recycling, to a data epiphany on holiday in the Prairies, Tom and Sophie share their experiences and vision for both the environment and environmental data. Because, as Sophie says, we all create waste - but knowing where it should go (and what to do with it), isn't always straightforward. Links Dsposal on twitter @YourDsposal Sophie Walker on twitter @Sophie_COO Tom Passmore on twitter @Eldo36 Swirrl on twitter @swirrl Dsposal website ODI project article  Dsposal Waste Thesaurus Swirrl website 

Welcome to a brand new season of the Tech for Good Live Podcast! We’ve been doing this for over 4 years now! Clearly there is no god. We’re talking about the Ice Bucket Challenge. Remember that? Back in the distant past when we used to be able to laugh and have social connections and stuff. Well, we’re going to be talking about that again. We’re also heading up north, metaphorically, to immerse ourselves in the Scottish version of Wikipedia. Host Rebecca Rae-Evans is joined by TFGL team members Tom Passmore and Jonny Rae-Evans. Our special guest is Edward Hibbert from Freegle. This week’s topics: Stat of the week  57,000 Scots Wikipedia articles written by someone with apparently zero knowledge of the language - The Register Charity news of the week  Checking back in on the Ice Bucket Challenge - Positive News/Instagram Household giving could fall by up to 25% - Third Sector The way we think about charity is dead wrong - Dan Pallotta TED Talk Tech news of the week  Who pays for the news? Why Google and Facebook are being asked to pay for the news they use – explainer - The Guardian Open Data Manchester have launched their “Declaration for responsible data in Greater Manchester” - Open Data Manchester/Twitter And finally…  Adult toys...no not that kind you filthy animals: Today I learned my baby’s Fisher-Price gamepad accepts the Konami Code - 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. If you’d like to be thanked on the podcast for giving us some cash, contact us on hello@techforgood.live. I promise we’ll spend it on transcription and not on kittens. 

Everything is on fire as local lockdowns are declared. Tech bros are being tech bros on Twitter again, and the US political system is dying in real time before our very eyes. So, not much has changed since March. Don’t despair though, because what better way to bring some joy and delight into your otherwise dreary day, than listen to us prattle on about Tech for Good. We’re talking data and WASTE. And not just any old waste. Waste that the UK is exporting to Malaysia. Never let them tell you that British exports are on the decline… Someone, finally, on the Tech for Good Live team, has become a bit respectable, so obviously we’ll be talking about that. Oh, and Google has finally taken some action against the Proud Boys Guest hosting this week is Sophie Walker. She’s joined by Tom Passmore and our special guest Edafe Onerhime. Edafe is an expert on effective use of data. She has over 20 years of experience working with data in business, for government and with non-profits.  This week’s topics: Stat of the week UK waste exports to Malaysia increased by 81% in the first half of the year - Circular Online Charity news of the week Our Hera won a British Empire Medal Tech news of the week Google Takes Action Against Proud Boys’ Use of Cloud Platform Following Pressure from Color Of Change - Color of Change Nice things this week World Standards Day!  The Inside Scoop of Ben & Jerry - Infographic  And finally…  Experience how "artificial intelligence" judges your face, without giving up your privacy - How Normal am I? ---------------------------- 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.

The ultimate ‘out of sight, out of mind problem,’ when we throw something away, it seems to disappear into a magical space that sits apart from us and our responsibility. Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker, founders of Dsposal, are using data to bridge this knowledge gap by showing people what happens to waste once we throw it away. On this episode, We speak to Tom and Sophie about their journey in building Dsposal and their mission in innovating waste management for the greater good. After talking about how waste is part of a value-chain of resources within the circular economy, we explore the ‘duty of care.’ A key concept, this duty affirms our responsibility to properly manage our waste. On the topic of the circular economy, they explain their focus on compliance and regulation as using non-licensed contractors increases the likelihood that material ends up in a landfill — and therefore, out of the loop. Near the end of the episode, we talk about the state’s role in creating infrastructure and how it’s up to the public to innovate systems. A fascinating and energetic conversation about a pressing issue, tune in to hear about how Tom and Sophie are changing how we see waste.  

The sunshine has gone away and normal rainy service has resumed in Manchester. But whilst the weather might be grim, our spirits refused to be dampened. Why? Because we’re here to talk to you about technology being used for social good.  In this episode we’re talking about how an algorithm has screwed over loads of young people awaiting their exam results, especially hitting poorer student and how Liberty have won a landmark facial recognition case. Joining host Bex we have Greg Ashton, Tom Passmore and our special guest this week is Mike Stephens, co-founder of tech for good agency Ayup. This week’s topics: Stat of the week Algorithm downgrades nearly 40% of students - The Next Web As a result we had the big u-turn: A-levels and GCSEs: U-turn as teacher estimates to be used for exam results - BBC Exam results: Where did it go wrong and what happens next? - BBC   Charity news of the week Liberty wins landmark case against facial recognition tech in Cardiff - Liberty Tech news of the week The amazing and potentially dangerous rise in social justice slides - Voxhows in instagram And finally…  Get help with those pesky Terms of Service https://tosdr.org/  ---------------------------- 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. Which you can’t see. If you’d like to be thanked on the podcast for giving us some cash, contact us on hello@techforgood.live. I promise we’ll spend it on transcription and not on kittens.

Welcome to a brand new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast! We’ve not been recording for a few weeks so let’s just quickly check to see how the world is going: Ok, the world is still ravaged by the global pandemic. Racism is still everywhere, and awful, with no sign of improving. Charities are collapsing due to lack of funding. People have given up on social distancing... Cool.  Oh – but Taylor Swift has a new album out though, so it’s not all bad (eyeroll) In spite of this, the podcast team has dutifully assembled. Joining host Bex we have Greg Ashton, Tom Passmore and our special guest this week is Lauren Bevan, Head of Healthcare at health and social care technology specialists, BJSS (who are hiring!) Topics in this episode Stat of the week:  Government to shed 6,000 jobs in a contact tracing pivot to a more local approach - BBC And some people are making it harder: Why some people are giving false information - The Conversation 40 people exposed to Coronavirus in Cornwall  Charity news of the week:   National Trust joins victims of Blackbaud hack  Couldn't have happened at a worse time: Status of UK fundraising: 66% believe their organisation is coping while 29% are not confident they will be able to continue after Covid.60% have done some form of digital fundraising with over ¾ doing this for the first time Almost a third of charities report decline in voluntary income - Fundraising UK  Tech news of the week:  Social media, algorithms and government roulette - who can we trust? TikTok Propaganda? - The Verge Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms - Vox/Recode  Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages - NBC News And finally…  Inclusive stock photos! ---------------------------- 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. Which you can’t see. If you’d like to be thanked on the podcast for giving us some cash, contact us on hello@techforgood.live. I promise we’ll spend it on transcription and not on kittens. 

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal. . Can the Circular Economy ever create a world of positive social change? In the third and final episode of Series Two we discuss the powerful, political world of economics and then look to the future, with the help of bananas. ----- Huge thanks to all this season's contributors: Gaëlle Guillaume Iain Gulland Ken Webster Marc Zornes James Close Andy Doran ----- This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans Produced by Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans and Rebecca Rae-Evans. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal. . In this second episode of Series Two, we talk to people who make beautiful cars and the people who recycle the metal in the cars. And Tom's mind is blown, multiple times! ----- Huge thanks to all this season's contributors: Gaëlle Guillaume Iain Gulland Ken Webster Marc Zornes James Close Andy Doran ----- This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans Produced by Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans and Rebecca Rae-Evans. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal. . In this first episode in Season Two, we have a look at the wing of the Circular Economy we missed in Season One, the bio-cycle, and we start digging into economics – both circular and linear - and ask questions like... “Who is the Circular Economy for?” “Will it stop the climate emergency?” “Will it make the rich richer? ----- Huge thanks to all this season's contributors: Gaëlle Guillaume Iain Gulland Ken Webster Marc Zornes James Close Andy Doran ----- This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans Produced by Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans and Rebecca Rae-Evans. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

This is a special episode because we’ll be talking about green tech. That’s right. The environment and stuff. And technology. Fun. We’re mostly going to be talking about death and stuff. We're joined by friends of the pod, Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from clean-tech start-up Dsposal On the pod we talk about our carbon footprint, you can find yours by taking this short quiz here: footprint.wwf.org.uk Things we mention: Green Tech Symposium Lots of stuff on energy and transport eg: https://energimine.com/  https://www.qbots.ai/ http://urbanchain.co.uk/ Smart Waste Smart Resources conference https://greyparrot.ai https://www.stuffstr.com https://www.rubiconglobal.com https://www.mrw.co.uk/latest/defra-backs-digital-waste-tracking-proposals/10044921.article And finally... UK music festivals no longer have any excuse for making a mess: http://kumbh.gov.in/en/campaigns-swachh-kumbh Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at hello@techforgood.live  and we’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast! Thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty. Oh yeah, nearly forgot... #BinTrackerApp (you're welcome, Tom)

On covering high schools while simultaneously taking photographs while simultaneously keeping stats while simultaneously putting a section together; on existence at his 8,000-circulation daily newspaper; on how to treat young athletes.

In this weeks episode, Producer Paul chats to Dsposal's Sophie Walker and Tom Passmore about what they got up to at last months Bluedot festival, a music, science and culture event held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks. They discuss their attempts to demystify data in a fun and informative way with Open Data Manchester and of course, their special interest in the on-site bins. We also had Harry Bailey out in the field, inverviewing Matthew Cobb. Matthew studies the sense of smell in maggots, as part of his job as Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester. He is also interested in the history of science, and his most recent book, Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, was shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Book Prize. He discusses what insights we have gained from robots down the centuries, in particular how we think about the brain, and explores what tomorrow holds. Further reading: Open Data Manchester at Bluedot: https://bit.ly/2NfDWSf Matthew Cobb: https://twitter.com/matthewcobb Rachael Ainsworth: The Violent Birth of Stars: https://bit.ly/30bxHCx Bluedot Offical Site: discoverthebluedot.com Get in touch: Twitter: @techforgoodlive Instagram: techforgoodlive Email: hello@techforgood.live

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work?   This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team. You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work? In this episode we look at the real world examples from some of the UKs biggest retailers. We also find out that Apple have a robot called Daisy that can rip mobile phones apart. But in a good way apparently...     This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team.   You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work? In this episode we consider Space Age thinking. Which is great - because we love space. We hear that a Blade-Runner-esq future might be on the horizon - and that might not be too bad. Also, and more importantly, we explore the unintended consequences of the Circular Economy. -------------- This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team.   You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

Ben White is in the presenting hotseat this week, welcoming Tash Willcocks from Hyper Island to discuss some of the latest goings-on across the Tech For Good scene. They're joined by the Big Lottery Fund's Jonny Rae-Evans, The Brooke's Fay Schofield and Tom Passmore from our favourite waste crime combatants Dsposal (everyone has a favourite waste crime combatant, right!?)   Things we mentioned: Can a limit of 30 minutes per day of social media reduce feelings of loneliness and depression? https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/09/limiting-social-media-use-reduced-loneliness-and-depression-in-new-experiment/   Whistleblower app fights forced evictions in Kenya: https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/11/08/new-whisteblower-app-fights-forced-evictions-in-kenya/   Staff being microchipped: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/11/alarm-over-talks-to-implant-uk-employees-with-microchips   Quick Update to last week’s reporting on the Google Walkout… Google respond: https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/note-our-employees   Video game helped a journalist understand their grandma’s dementia: https://www.cnet.com/news/the-video-game-that-helped-me-understand-my-grandmas-dementia/   Iceland Christmas Ad banned for being too political: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/09/iceland-christmas-tv-ad-banned-political-greenpeace-orangutan   Thanks to the magnificent PR Agency One who try to make sense of this mess. Also, thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty.   Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: hello@techforgood.live

Alicia revisits the topic of the World Cup with reporters Tom Passmore and Michael Leonard about their previous picks, the fascinating wins that have occurred during this tournament, and what Qatar has in store 4 years from now. 

This week, sometimes co-host Harry Bailey stepped in to help the team defend their cynicism against the refreshingly positive Tom Passmore of Dsposal. He’s a waste disposal and circular economy genius and luckily for him the stat of the month is all about the horrendous amounts of waste we produce and the ways tech is tackling this torrent. You’ll also hear about an interesting synergy between cosmetics retailer Lush and Bex’s favourite ethical mobile, Fairphone. Sadly there’s no rant this week, but that’s mainly because the gang got stuck in on some worrying uses for IoT devices and ran out of time. Still managed to talk about bats, bears and penguins...oh my. If you want to find Tom: https://dsposal.uk/ @Yourdsposal   Things we mentioned: https://sidewalktoronto.ca/ https://beta.lush.com/en/article/lush-lens-prototype-launches-in-first-naked-shop-in-milan https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/06/15/this-dutch-town-uses-high-tech-streetlights-to-keep-their-bats-happy/     Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: hello@techforgood.live