Digital for Good : A night of Inspirations
Technology…. one of the biggest opportunities we have to make the world a better place (or indeed screw it up).
Building on last year’s extremely popular Digital for Good event during the Festival, we are at it again, only bigger and better.
Join us for a great evening of speakers and discussion about some of the fantastic things being done with technology to improve many aspects of the world we live in, and also some of the things that could hinder this.
The talks include :-
- Spyware 2.0 – Aral Balkan
Google and Facebook watch us, mine us for information, study us, and manipulate our behaviour. Why? Because that’s how they make money.
It’s their business to profile us. That is the insight they sell to their real customers. We are what they sell — not our bodies but everything else that makes us what we are is fair game.
In this talk, Aral will explore what the ramifications of this abusive, predatory relationship mean for the future of our human rights, fundamental freedoms, and democracy.
Aral Balkan is a designer and social entrepreneur working to protect fundamental freedoms, human rights, and democracy by creating independent consumer technologies that don’t spy on you.
- The Kano Story – Mathew Keegan and Radek Pazdera
In November 2013, Kano went to Kickstarter with a target to raise of £100,000. This amount was achieved within 18 hours, and within 30 days the total raised was over £1.5m, that’s 15 times the initial target.
How was this achieved?
Mathew Keegan and Radek Pazdera from Kano will present the Kano story, and tell us more about the computer that anyone can make, for all ages, from all over the world.
- How do you download a House? – Richard Heath and Steve Fisher
WikiHouse is a non-profit project, developing hardware and software which is open and given freely to all, under the creative commons licence.
The project will, one day soon, allow anyone, anywhere to design and download their own home “kit” and make it themselves. Far more than just plans, it’s everything you need to 3D print/cut all the parts and with the online community needed to help you know how to put it together.
Bath’s very own Momentum Engineering are a core part of the team making this revolution a reality. Be a part of it too.
Richard Heath and Steve Fisher, Co-Founders and Directors at Momentum , will be talking about how this has been achieved, and what will be possible in the future.
Can digital tools help people become more powerful? – Tom Steinberg
Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety.
mySociety is an international non-profit group which exists to build and popularise digital tools that give citizens power over institutions and decision makers.
The majority of mySociety’s work today consists of tools to enable activists, journalists and change-makers to run websites and apps that empower citizens in different ways, and in different countries.
Come and be inspired by our final curated night of the Festival to see some of the most recent “For Good” Tech Founders and Leaders talk about how they have made their digital difference to the world.
