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 [email protected]  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 [email protected]  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.  This week, we’re talking about data anonymisation, privacy, ethics and mental health, and the growing world of NFTs.  TFGL Team members Hera Hussain and Harriet Pugh are joined by our special guest Zoë Firth, Project Lead at Chayn Stat of the week  If you’ve been wondering why people have been cancelling their subscriptions, this is the reason! 270 health experts to Spotify: Joe Rogan’s Covid misinformation is ‘a sociological issue of devastating proportions’ Charity news of the week Last week, The Crisis Text Line was in the news when Politico shared that the suicide and crisis helpline based in the US, was selling anonymised data from its conversation with texters to train a chatbot for customer service run by it’s for-profit spin off, Loris.ai.  Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions - Politico After causing an outrage in the data science, human rights and ethics space - especially on twitter - the charity announced THIS WEEK they will no longer be selling data to Loris.ai. Crisis Text Line stops sharing conversation data with AI company - The Verge  Tech news of the week NFTs are the rage! Do you know what they are? This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address - VIce Would you buy a home in the metaverse? - FT Crypto queens: Women stake out space in blockchain world - Reuters Women Rise  Rant of the week  Google Illegally Used Dark Patterns to Trick Users Into Handing Over Location Data, State AGs Say - Gizmodo And finally… The New York Times Buys Wordle  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts.  Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  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 [email protected]  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 [email protected]  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 [email protected]  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 special episode we chat to the people behind GM-THINK. There’ll be talk of commissioning tech, data collection, and collaborating between multiple cross sector organisations. All of this is to ensure we can support those who need it most. GM-THINK is a multi-agency database that lets services across Greater Manchester share information quickly and securely. The system makes it easy for organisations to coordinate the work they do with people who have multiple and complex needs. Host Rebecca Rae-Evans is joined by:  Abbie - Development Officer at Inspiring Change Manchester Jackie - ICM Programme Manager Neil - GMThink Co-chair Grace - RealSystems Customer Success Lead. --------- Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  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. This is a podcast all about how we might use tech for positive social impact. This is a special episode featuring recordings from the Tech for Good module run at the National University of Ireland Galway in 2020 by Bex and Jonny from our team.  In the podcast you’ll be hearing from the students on their thoughts on dealing with propaganda misinformation, data and privacy.  The show is produced and hosted by Kristiana Zunde. She is joined by Bex-Rae Evans. Bex is a Tech for Good Live podcast regular and she ran the module for the students at NUI Galway.  And they’re joined by Sheila Malone. Sheila is a lecturer in Marketing at NUI Galway.   --------------  Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  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 [email protected]  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 [email protected]  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.