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Ben White is in the presenting hotseat this week, welcoming Tash Willcocks from Hyper Island to discuss some of the latest goings-on across the Tech For Good scene.
They're joined by the Big Lottery Fund's Jonny Rae-Evans, The Brooke's Fay Schofield and Tom Passmore from our favourite waste crime combatants Dsposal (everyone has a favourite waste crime combatant, right!?)
Things we mentioned:
Can a limit of 30 minutes per day of social media reduce feelings of loneliness and depression?
Whistleblower app fights forced evictions in Kenya:
https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/11/08/new-whisteblower-app-fights-forced-evictions-in-kenya/
Staff being microchipped: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/11/alarm-over-talks-to-implant-uk-employees-with-microchips
Quick Update to last week’s reporting on the Google Walkout… Google respond:
https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/note-our-employees
Video game helped a journalist understand their grandma’s dementia:
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-video-game-that-helped-me-understand-my-grandmas-dementia/
Iceland Christmas Ad banned for being too political:
Thanks to the magnificent PR Agency One who try to make sense of this mess. Also, thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty.
Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune
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