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
September 2021
Rashmi Hangular works as a technical architect in DWP Digital’s Sheffield-based Dynamic Trust Hub. However, like most of my colleagues I’ve been working from home for just over a year now. One of the key achievements in the Dynamic Trust Hub in the last 12 […]
August 2021
In our digital world, data is everywhere. It’s estimated that as a global community we create around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day – that’s 2.5 followed by a staggering 18 zeros. Much of this data can be classed as alternative data, also known […]
August 2021
As part of Digital Leaders Week in June, I joined Karen Lynch, Vice Chair of Social Enterprise UK, in a fireside chat discussing Profit with Purpose. Here, I reflect (briefly) on my experiences in Government, my thoughts on some of the challenges that still lie […]
August 2021
Weaving the web: During the past 18 months researchers at the University of York (in collaboration with Good Things Foundation and University of Leeds) have had the privilege of speaking to people diagnosed with severe mental ill health (SMI), including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar […]
July 2021
DWP Digital delivered its first virtual hackathon earlier this month. Hack2Work brought together more than 150 people from a wide range of backgrounds to develop digital solutions focused on helping people back into employment following the pandemic. The hackathon was a competitive event, where multidisciplinary teams […]
July 2021
Head of Digital Performance Analytics Gemma Elsworth from DWP Digital shares why it’s important to build a culture of performance measurement. Throughout my career, one saying that has always rung true is this: “Data and measurement is not important, until it is.” What this has […]
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