Access to Choice

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast.  This time, we are talking about a universal basic income trial. FUN. We discuss institutional racism and bias in the charity sector: Absolutely NOT FUN. And finally, Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are about to have a big fight. Jonny Rae-Evans is on hosting duties and he is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore.  Our Special guest this week is Mia Peters, a user centred service design and research practitioner with extensive public sector experience. This week’s topics: Stat of the week Two year trial into basic income ends in America and finds find people on the guaranteed income found full-time work at more than twice the rate of non-recipients - Positive.News Charity news of the week Another charity reports institutional racism and bias - The Guardian Tech news of the week Reaction to the ‘changes’ at Basecamp, that were announced in Jason Fried’s post this week Things are about to get tense between two of the biggest tech companies - NY Times And finally…  Black mirror wasn't far off, get fit and power your devices ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts.  Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast! Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast.  If you’d like to be thanked on the podcast for giving us some cash, contact us on [email protected]. I promise we’ll spend it on transcription and not on kittens.