This document discusses how to harness technology for social good. It argues that technology can tackle social issues by giving more people agency, redistributing power, enabling connections, and democratizing data. It provides examples of innovative tech for good projects and discusses how non-profits can overcome barriers to innovation through experimentation, decentralizing power, testing ideas quickly, and questioning norms. Overall, the document advocates that under current conditions, technology provides opportunities to solve problems at scale through agile approaches focused on empowering people.

1. HOW TO
HARNESS
TECHNOLOGY
FOR GOOD

2. Duncan Cook Jamie
Parkins

3. #FUNDRAISINGCONVENTION

4. “LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO
TACKLE SOCIAL ISSUES”
GIVING AGENCY TO MORE PEOPLE
REDISTRIBUTING POWER
ENABLING PEOPLE TO CONNECT
DEMOCRATISING DATA
WHAT IS TECH FOR GOOD?

6. INTEREST IS GROWING

7. COLLECTIVES ARE FORMING

8. HACK FOR GOOD

9. FOR THE 99%, NOT THE 1%
DESIGNED TO ADDRESS A NEED?
DOES IT GIVE POWER & AGENCY?
ARE CREATORS AWARE OF UNINTENDED
CONSEQUENCES?
WHAT IS THE USER’S PERSPECTIVE?
GENERAL PRINCIPLES

10. EXPANDING SUPERMARKET OF APIS
GROWING DEPENDENCE ON SAAS
DECLINING COST OF TECH
INCREASED GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY
GROWING ACCEPTANCE OF FAILURE
CONDITIONS ARE RIPE

11. A PLATFORM THAT POWERS GENEROSITY
WE BUILT APIS TO EMPOWER OTHERS
WE FOCUS ON LARGE SCALE, LET OTHERS
FOCUS ON SMALLER SCALE

12. • BE AGILE
MOVE FAST
• SHARE THE PROBLEM NOT THE SOLUTION
• DECENTRALISE POWER TO THE PEOPLE
• TEST & LEARN
• QUESTION THE NORM
MOVE FAST
HOW CAN WE HARNESS TECH FOR GOOD?

13. INNOVATION AND
AGILITY

16. CHARITIES ARE
NOT GOOD AT
INNOVATING

17. CHARITIES ARE
NOT STARTUPS

18. WHY WE DON’T
INNOVATE:
F.E.A.R

19. 1. Lack of freedom
2. Not having the
ability to act fast -
3. Chains of command
4. worried to look silly
5. branding
6. Lack of a ball
breaker
WHAT KILLS INNOVATION
1. Give freedom
2. Put enfaces on speed
3. Empower people
4. Create a fear free
environment
5. Experiment with a
Sub Branding
6. Get a ball breaker

20. WHAT CAN
INNOVATION DO
FOR YOUR
CHARITY?

21. EXPLORATION
VS
EXPLOITATION

24. BALANCE

25. EXAMPLES OF
GREAT
INNOVATIONS
TECH FOR GOOD

26. JUN, A SPANISH
TOWN DITCHED
BUREAUCRACY TO
RUN ON TWITTER

27. OPEN BIONICS
ARE MAKING
KIDS EXCITED
TO WEAR
PROSTHETIC
LIMBS

28. LAB GENERATED
RHINO HORNS OF THE
SAME, IF NOT
BETTER, QUALITY
ARE DRIVING DOWN
POACHING

29. PIGEONS WEARING
TINY BACKPACKS
WITH POLLUTION
SENSORS -
LITERALLY LIVE
TWEETING AIR
QUALITY INFO

30. TOOLS TO
INNOVATE

31. RAPID
PROTOTYPING

32. FAKE IT
BEFORE WE
MAKE IT

33. HOW WE USED
IT ON BLOOD
DONOR

35. LEAN ON
OTHERS

36. GREAT
INNOVATION
COSTS LITTLE

38. BREXIT
=
UNCERTAINTY
UNCERTAINTY
=
OPPORTUNITY

39. THANK
YOU

40. TECH FOR GOOD PODCASTS
NESTA INNOVATION FUND
APPSFORGOOD PROGRAME
TECH FOR GOOD GLOBAL
LONDON TECH FOR GOOD MEETUP
NON PROFIT TECH FOR GOOD
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