Tech for Good Live

Jun 04 2024 272 ep. 44 mins 59

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From rampant AI's and gamification to social fundraising and new ways of donating. Join us on a meandering ramble through the ever changing landscape of tech that makes the world a better place.

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Jun 04 2024 41 mins

Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. If you were listening last week, you’ll know we were joined by the lovely Harry Harrold, Head of Neontribe, a digital agency committed to tech for good! We are delighted to say that Harry is back to talk to us in more depth about himself and his work! We talked about how he got started, his love for user research and because it's 2

Usable and useful

May 28 2024 30 mins

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

Corporate sustainability with Nicki Lyons from Vodafone

May 22 2024 27 mins

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. If you listened to last week’s show, you’d have heard from the wonderful Nicki Lyons, UK Chief Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Officer at Vodafone. We're delighted to say she’s joining us this week for another episode so we can get to know more about her, and her fascinating work. -------

Humans vs. Algorithms

May 14 2024 33 mins

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. If you’re keeping count, today is something like our ten thousand and five hundredth episode or something. Who knows? The main takeaway is that this has gone on too long. But this weeks show looks like it’ll be worth the price of admission. Today we’ll be imagining a world where social media is ru

Bridging the digital divide

May 07 2024 29 mins

Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We're your one stop shop for discussion on all things good and bad (normally very, very bad…) in tech and other stuff. Greg Aston is on hosting duties, and he is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Mille Vardheim and Paul Jakubowski Our guest this week is Lily Comlan, a masters student based in Norway who is cu

Fully digital life events

Apr 30 2024 30 mins

Welcome to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We're your one stop shop for discussion on all things good and bad (normally very, very bad…) in tech and other stuff. And this week's episode is no different! We're talking about Apple’s shoddy privacy, Estonia being a boss at digital transformation and ROBOTS! Greg Aston is on hosting duties, and he is joined by

Governance is a friend

Apr 22 2024 46 mins

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Paul Jakubowski and Mille Vardheim. Our special guest is Sarah Peña, Head of Emerging Technology & Business Improvement at Swindon Borough Council. We find out about her path to the role, her work on a generative AI Easy Read solution and why sh

Ethical shopping on the rise

Apr 17 2024 28 mins

Hello and welcome to yet another season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. In this episode we’ll be talking about an increase in ethical shopping in the UK. Amazing! Sure we’re a nation of self-centred, awful, monstrous, racist muppets… but we do take our shopping seriously at least. We’ll also be talking about two poverty porn influencers who are having a fight. Host

Horrific/Terrific

Mar 18 2024 44 mins

Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. If you joined us for last week’s episode you’ll have heard from Georgia, a freelance writer specialising in tech and we’re super excited to have Georgia back on the podcast this week to chat with us a little bit more. We talk about being a content writer in the data ethics and civic tech spaces, working in the content modera

Driven to apathy

Mar 10 2024 31 mins

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 mean