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
November 2019
Arguably, what principally distinguishes a social enterprise from other forms of commercial enterprise – including other types of “social business” – is the commitment to distributing the majority of profits generated towards social purposes. So why is it that some social enterprises take pride in the label of being […]
November 2019
Tackling online mental health is vital. Growing up is hard enough, but imagine having to grapple with the anxieties and tribulations of adolescence in a vast, borderless digital sphere that is always ‘on’ – a space with known potential for harm and abuse. In the […]
October 2019
October 10 is World Mental Health Day. This blog looks at how making adjustments can improve your mental health. According to data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) “Close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, which is one person every 40 seconds.” In […]
October 2019
When we set up lastminute.com in the late 90s, Brent and I used to go to the meet-ups in the e-commerce sector where it used to be us and one other company. Right now in London, every hour a new commercial internet company is started. […]
September 2019
If you want to make yourself feel old, think about how much the world of work has changed during the time you’ve been in it. I’ve seen how email and then digital collaboration tools such as Slack have grown, along with flexible working. Since I […]
September 2019
Would you sacrifice diversity for some good old-fashioned merit-based competition? A new study by John Zogby Strategies suggests your answer to that question may depend on the year you were born. (Yes, really.) The poll surveyed 2,002 US-based respondents and found: Only 15% of Gen Z and […]
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