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 2018
DigitalAgenda’s quest for the very best of UK tech for good is back on for a third year, as we open up our 2019 Impact Awards for entries. With new award categories and a new headline sponsor, the Impact Awards remain fresh, exciting and hugely […]
October 2018
This month’s Power & Responsibility summit put a strong focus on the solutions technology can offer society. In a series of lightning interviews, Adah Parris talks to four tech-for-good entrepreneurs about how their digital innovations provide answers to problems that tech is often seen as creating. […]
October 2018
Cities in the UK are great places to live. But they also face challenges: congested roads, polluted air, hotter summers, and ageing infrastructure. And with local authority budgets being chopped, resources to sort out these problems are scarce. As well as suffering negative environmental impacts, […]
October 2018
The past year has seen an almost universal decline in public trust for social media platforms – with a plummeting of trust in tech business regarding data protection and transparency. But Edelman says there is an opportunity for tech business to respond to ‘belief-driven’ buying. The […]
October 2018
This article was co-authored by The Alan Turing Institute’s Professor Helen Margetts, Programme Director for Public Policy, and Turing Fellow; Dr Cosmina Dorobantu, Deputy Programme Director for Public Policy, and Policy Fellow; and Josh Cowls, Research Associate. If you hear about data, artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms in […]
September 2018
Many of us complain about the stress of being ‘always on’, say academics Rowland Atkinson and Mariann Hardey. Here’s what life could be like if you actually disconnected. Many of us spend hours every day tethered to our devices, pawing at the screen to see […]
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