Welcome to the Tech4Good South West podcast, sharing tech for good stories from across the South West.

Together we discover amazing tech for good start-ups, initiatives, communities and the journeys of charities and voluntary organisations to grow digital skills and support our region.

Your hosts

Annie Legge, co-founder of Tech4Good South West and Dot Project building digital resilience across the social economy

Alicia Teagle co-founder of Sr2 leading social responsible and tech for good recruitment

Arielle Tye driving digital transformation and citizen engagement in the third and Public Sector with ProMo-Cymru.

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Sponsor Mini Series 2/6 - Sponsoring Tech4Good South West with Joanna Randall
Mar
27

Sponsor Mini Series 2/6 - Sponsoring Tech4Good South West with Joanna Randall

The second of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with ⁠Joanna Randall⁠, Founding Director of ⁠Purplefish⁠ and a bronze sponsor of Tech4Good South West.

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Sponsor Mini Series 1/6 - Sponsoring Tech4Good South West with Nathan Baranowski
Jan
3

Sponsor Mini Series 1/6 - Sponsoring Tech4Good South West with Nathan Baranowski

The first of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with ⁠Nathan Baranowski⁠, Managing Director of ⁠Digital Wonderlab⁠ and our first silver sponsor of Tech4Good South West.

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Episode 8 - Developing tech for good solutions with Richard Godfrey
Jun
21

Episode 8 - Developing tech for good solutions with Richard Godfrey

Richard Godfrey is CEO at ⁠Rocketmakers⁠, investor, entrepreneur and technology innovator with a proven history of delivering major systems via Rocketmakers, Microsoft and Deloitte over the last 30+ years. Richard holds the Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation and Lifetime Achievement.

Based in Bath, ⁠Rocketmakers⁠ is a team of software developers that build innovative software, apps and websites for startups, scaleups and large organisations who are working to have a positive impact in the world. Richard shares the Rocketmakers journey to tech for good, becoming B-Corp certified and hopes for the South-West as a centre for tech for good.

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Episode 7 - Developing digital talent in young people
May
2

Episode 7 - Developing digital talent in young people

John Bradford is the inspiration behind Digilocal charity initiative supporting coding sessions for young people from 8 years old + across Bristol. Digilocal also refurbish and redeploy laptops to those most in need.

In this episode John shares with us the inspiration for launching Digilocal in particular to tackle the diversity in tech agenda to provide access to learning spaces for those most excluded from access to technology. John explains how the Digilocal coding clubs run, the role of volunteer mentors and the impact for young people.

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Episode 6 - Supporting digital in community businesses with Ed Howarth
Apr
27

Episode 6 - Supporting digital in community businesses with Ed Howarth

Ed Howarth is Programme Delivery Lead for Power to Change supporting community businesses. In particular Ed has championed the need for strengthening community businesses through digital.

Ed was co-founder of Tech for Good Bristol which was subsequently merged to become and Tech for Good South West.

Follow Ed's Medium page for regular work notes and further discussion of the topics raised during our conversation.

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Episode 4 - Scaling carbon removal with Will Foulkes
Mar
16

Episode 4 - Scaling carbon removal with Will Foulkes

Will Foulkes is Co-Founder and CEO of Stabiliti. Stabiliti is a globally scaleable carbon removal solution. Full end-to-end transparency across carbon offset lifecycle, live transactional offsetting accurate to the gram.

''We're the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last to do anything about it.'' Will talks about climate, carbon offsetting and the immediate changes we ALL need to make. Also his journey from Lawyer to Tech Founder and his secret weapon.

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