Tech for good is all about using digital technology to make a positive difference in the world over profit based motives.
Relevant transformations could involve changing the way children learn, helping people stay healthy, improving public services, helping us respond to disasters like floods and pandemics, and understanding global trends. It can come from nonprofits, governments, or businesses.
We host our annual impact Awards where we celebrate the digital technology innovations that improve people’s lives and the world around us.
Jennifer Jackson, Contributing Editor, TPXImpact
Jen Fenner, Managing Director, DefProc
Harriet Gridley, Director, No Isolation
By Stuart Arthur, CTO, TPXImpact
By Elizabeth Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, Digital Poverty Alliance
By Yetunde Elebuibon, Director, Knowledge Pool
By George Eckton, Director of Advice Services, Citizens Advice Scotland
July 2022
This week I was proud to launch the UK Digital Poverty Evidence Review at the House of Lords – in a room full of people committed to eradicating digital poverty. People who all recognise that we all have a role to play in both keeping digital poverty […]
June 2022
When I started We Are Digital from my bedroom, newspaper clippings adorned my wall of Martha Lane Fox running Race-Online-2012 as the country attempted to get online before the Olympics. Age UK helped people in local “ITea and Biscuits” sessions, UK Online Centres was just […]
May 2022
Business architect, Suzanne Maxted MBCS, explains how Impact Transparency is helping to connect everyday projects to the UN Sustainable Development Goals – to reverse climate catastrophe and biodiversity loss, the digital world needs to go back to the future! The government has mandated that the […]
April 2022
In March, UK health and social care secretary, Sajid Javid announced the Government’s target of having 80 percent of all care providers phase out paper-based records by 2024. According to Javid, approximately 40 percent of providers still depend on paper-based processes, which restricts the efficiency […]
March 2022
Although they can be unpopular with residents, green waste charges are a consistent revenue driver for the local authorities that enforce them. In recent years however, debate on the prospect of scrapping these charges has ramped up, and at the beginning of 2021 Boris Johnson […]
March 2022
Using Agile and DevOps best practice, Informed Solutions has worked with the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) to help transform the way it shares knowledge and manages mutual aid requests for specialist policing capabilities across the UK. The platform was successfully enhanced, tested, and deployed […]
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