Integrity

On this week’s podcast we are talking about whether the government should break up tech companies that wield too much power. Spoiler: yes. We’re also covering sexism within charity fundraising and talking about the Charity Digital skills report.  Helping host Bex discuss these weighty topics are Greg Ashton and Harry Bailey Stat of the week 56 percent said the government should break up tech companies if they control too much of the economy72 percent said that Facebook has too much power51 percent said Google and YouTube should be split into separate companies Source: The Verge Charity news of the week   Sexism in charity fundraising Charity digital skills survey is out - Closing April 3 Tech news of the week Facebook...yes Facebook, are looking for proposals for research into integrity Corona Virus tech handbook - A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak initiated by The London College of Political Technologists Rant of the week Tech For Good is Bad? And finally…  Children in China got out of doing homework by giving the app they use enough bad reviews to get it kicked from the app store Science of happiness course at Bristol university  ---------------------------- 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 us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty. If you want to create a podcast, you can find everything you need on their website. 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 provide strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com.