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 2018
Our lives and outlook, and those of our children, are fast being shaped by digital. These changes are unplanned, largely unregulated and already happening. This, warns Adam Thilthorpe, leaves us reliant on the ethical fortitude of developers. He says we urgently need a clear ethical […]
September 2018
Much is said about the harm digital technology does to humanity, with calls for a more ‘ethical’ approach. This approach carries a risk of unintended consequence in itself, restricting the ability of innovation to make the world a better place. Imagine that a paperclip factory […]
September 2018
Existing models of regulation are too slow and unresponsive to cope with the fast-changing world of digital innovation. Geoff Mulgan argues that forward-thinking regulators need to change by focusing more on outcomes than process and by adopting some of the strategies used by entrepreneurs and […]
September 2018
Public debate on tech ethics has been a long time coming. New technologies have been adopted and used with little scrutiny: it has felt like a golden era of ever-improving free communications, search, and content. Precisely because this has been free, we’ve been slow to […]
August 2018
The power of AI-based technology is held by a few companies. A lack of regulation means they can effectively choose to use the power they hold for human benefit, or use it just for private gain. Pete Trainor argues that the return for retaining such […]
August 2018
Pictured above: Lewis receiving the Digital Leaders 100 Award in 2017 for Mobile Innovation of the year for his charity Friend Finder Official. Every year AbilityNet gives a Tech4Good Special Award to someone truly inspirational who captures the spirit of Tech4Good. This year, the award has been given […]
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