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
March 2019
Fixing algorithms may not be the best response to bias. Ethicist Tom Douglas offers a more radical approach to creating fairness, that aims for ‘substantive’ rather than ‘procedural’ fairness outside of design. Our lives are increasingly affected by algorithms. People may be denied loans, jobs, […]
March 2019
Since becoming Minister for Sport & Civil Society, I have had the privilege of leading the government’s work to help tackle loneliness. The late Jo Cox brought this issue to national prominence and I am working, with many others, to continue her legacy following the […]
February 2019
Loneliness has a huge impact on our lives and 85% of young disabled people say they feel lonely. Can the next generation of robots really help us feel less lonely? We live in a world of convenience; a world in which technology has meant that […]
February 2019
I was in London this month for the latest Digital Leaders research salon at the University of Liverpool campus in London, exploring the relationship between digital technology and people’s experience of work, particularly in the gig economy – and how this relationship will change in the future. […]
February 2019
Digital minister Margot James is to join us on stage at next month’s DigitalAgenda Impact Awards. The news follows hard on the heels of last week’s announcement that the government is to support DigitalAgenda’s tech-for-good awards programme in the year to come. Margot James, digital […]
January 2019
The UK government has given its backing to DigitalAgenda’s Impact Awards, as DCMS joins our 2019 programme as an official partner in supporting projects using tech for good. Culture secretary Jeremy Wright confirmed the partnership in a speech today setting out a package of measures […]
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