Final (v2)

This week’s episode is jam packed with news about tech, charity, goodness and a fair sprinkling of awfulness. We’re going to be talking about Full Fact’s 2020 report, Positive News are focusing on sending some, well, positive news and Alphabet’s digital city is being shut down. Joining host Bex today is Greg Ashton and our special guest Ben Fowkes from Delib This week’s topics: Stat of the week 50% of young men breach lockdown rules as opposed to 25% of young women - Guardian And yet the virus is going to have the worst impact on livelihoods for women - MSN Charity news of the week: Full Fact report 2020 Tech news of the week: Sidewalk labs of Alphabet has cancelled it’s Quayside project in Toronto - Medium And finally… Positive news are running a crowdfunder to send paper copies to NHS workers with the aim to give them a little lift with some more positive news stories - CrowdFunder (About the only place we get our positive news from so fully support this!) ---------------------------- 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 mates about this podcast! If you want to get more involved in our community, you can join our Slack channel or sign up to our newsletter. Just visit TechforGood.Live to find out how. Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting our podcast on their podcast platform. We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provides strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com