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After a long break, Tech for Good Live was back on July 22 with an online meetup on Digital Trustees! In this blog, we talk about what we’ve learnt about who digital trustees are and who they are not, how to recruit one and how to become one.
Read MoreIf you work for a charity, you’ll have some trustees, probably at least three. They might focus on comms, finance, and operations trustees. And yeah, I know, they can probably be a bit of a pain sometimes. Their role is to challenge you. Ask you the difficult questions and keep you on track.
Read MoreI’m a super fun person. At least two people have told me that during my life. One was my husband. The other was me, in the mirror, giving myself a much needed pep talk. Like all super fun people do, lately I’ve been thinking about the effectiveness of skills-based volunteering.
Read MoreWe stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and we’re conscious that *our* voices are not the voices you should be listening to right now. But, we do have a platform, and we want to make sure we’re using it to amplify those voices that need to be heard.
Read MoreWe want to help local communities in Greater Manchester do good things. We have created Help a Charity form to find out what local charities need help with.
Read MoreAt times when the violation of privacy and evil tech do not make the news, it is important to showcase how data is being used for good. In February, we teamed up with Open Data Manchester and invited four amazing speakers that are doing data for good.
Read MoreThis year we’ve been super keen to scope out feedback from you, the Tech for Good Live community on what you’d like to see more of at our monthly events.
Read MoreSlavery and abuse have existed throughout human history, so what is unique with what we’re seeing now?
Read MoreLast Wednesday saw us host our first Tech For Good Live event of 2020, and boy was it busy!
Read MoreRight, let’s talk about Climate Change. Climate Change IS happening. And climate change is making us angry. Climate change might stop ruining the Earth if every one of us does something. What a surprise, right? On a less sarcastic note, let’s talk about our October event on climate change.
Read MoreThis Thursday will see Tech for Good Live take on a new challenge: The climate crisis.
We’ve gone above and beyond this week to round up some of the best climate initiatives in Manchester to bring them all under one roof for our brilliant and budding Tech for Good Live network.
Read MoreLong-time ago when the skies were blue, and the weather was nice (also known as August) we had a chance to learn about behavioural changes and the role of digital in it.
Why should we care about ‘behavioural change’ that sounds like a subject of a dusty library book? Mainly because all of us are involved in it, whether we want it or not.
Read MoreBack in March, we had a brilliant event, on...you guessed it.. Law Tech! We know right…that was an obvious one.
However, it seems that many within the legal industry today, are seldom acquainted with the fast moving advancements technology has to offer, and that other industries more readily pickup.
Read MoreOn a hot day at the end of June, a room full of people - with an interest in how tech can be used for good, descended upon the Federation to learn about the intersection between technology and accessibility.
Read MoreSo, the very last Thursday in February saw us host an event called ‘How to make people care’.
I know, that sounds vague and idealistic doesn’t it?
My experience has been that calls for encouraging feelings of ‘giving a shit’ usually result in the exact opposite. During the event though, we learned exactly how to do this.
Read MoreAs you know, each week the Tech for Good Live team release our weekly podcast. It is, imaginatively, called "TfGL Weekly".
The format is really simple. The team sit around a table - usually joined by a guest - and talk about the latest news and drama in the tech for good scene, the tech sector more generally, and also the charity digital news of the week.
Notes:
This is a transcript of episode three of a three-part podcast series by Tech for Good Live, created in partnership with Bethnal Green Ventures. If you want to listen to all three episodes and more podcasts from Tech for Good Live you can subscribe via your regular podcast provider such as iTunes and Spotify.
If you've read this transcript already, you can check out the other episodes below:
Transcript of Episode 1
Transcript of Episode 2
Notes:
This is a transcript of episode two of a three-part podcast series by Tech for Good Live, created in partnership with Bethnal Green Ventures. If you want to listen to all three episodes and more podcasts from Tech for Good Live you can subscribe via your regular podcast provider such as iTunes and Spotify.
If you've read this transcript already, you can check out the other episodes below:
Transcript of Episode 1
Transcript of Episode 3
Notes:
This is a transcript of episode one of a three-part podcast series by Tech for Good Live, created in partnership with Bethnal Green Ventures. If you want to listen to all three episodes and more podcasts from Tech for Good Live you can subscribe via your regular podcast provider such as iTunes and Spotify.
If you've read this transcript already, you can check out the other episodes below:
Transcript of Episode 2
Transcript of Episode 3
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.
