Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:00 - 14:00 BST

Location near Bath - TBC

Register https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/636581200507

Walking and creative thinking to explore a regional membership group to address tech for good.

Join us for Tech for Good Outdoor Office Day walking meeting!

It is Outdoor Office Day in the Netherlands, and we are bringing it to Bath in the form of a tech for good walking and creative thinking meeting - a walkshop if you like - led by Garry Pratt, author of The Creativity Factor, Using the Power of the Outdoors to spark successful Innovation, and Al Kennedy, Leadership Coach in Nature, the co-founders of Outside Business.

We encourage anyone with an interest in any aspect of tech for good and driving social impact across our region to put 3 hours aside to be outside!

Over a 5k circular walk near Bath we will explore some sure-fire creative thinking techniques to help focus our thoughts on how we might bring together people, companies and organisations as a regional membership group to address tech for good.

#OutdoorOfficeDay #weeting (walk your meeting)

A collaboration of Outside Business, Tech for Good South-West and The Bath 5k Map

Al Kennedy, Tomorrow Consultancy

Garry Pratt, The Creativity Factor

Annie Legge, Tech for Good South West and The Bath 5k Map

Thursday 22 June 6 -8:30 pm
Framework Bristol

Come along to "Dark Patterns: All You Need to Know", where we will explore the concept of Dark Patterns, their impact on our decisions, privacy, and autonomy, and the ethical implications of these deceptive design techniques.

Our speakers will shed light on the harms of dark patterns, how they erode trust, and what we can do about them.

Don't miss out!

Speakers:

• Colin Gavaghan, Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol.

• Ben Byford Games Designer, Ethicist and Host of the Machine Ethics Podcast

• Lisa Talia Moretti Digital Sociologist and User Research Principal at AND Digital.

• Ray Newman Senior Content Design Consultant at Sparck.

Presentations followed by networking with drinks and nibbles.

Sign up: https://www.meetup.com/tech-ethics-bristol/events/293534773

Online

Thu 29th June 2023 11:00AM

Sign up: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bath-social-impact-network/t-ojvqpne

Join us for the Bath Social Impact Network March virtual networking event. We will be hearing from Lucy Findlay founding Managing Director of Social Enterprise Mark CIC about Social Enterprise Accreditation. As well as a speaker taking us through their B Corp Journey (TBC) 

There will be opportunities for networking with fellow members as well as lots of time to ask our speakers questions. We hope you can join us. 

Our speakers

Lucy Findlay Social Enterprise Mark CIC

Lucy Findlay MBE is the founding Managing Director of Social Enterprise Mark CIC, an award-winning international social enterprise accreditation authority, which recognises and builds the capabilities of social enterprises as competitive, sustainable businesses, dedicated to maximising social impact.
 
She is publicly recognised as a key player in the social enterprise sector and over the last decade has developed the Social Enterprise Mark from a regional project to an internationally available accreditation, providing a clear standard for the social enterprise sector and added social value. She has been recognised through various sector awards, as well as mainstream business awards and was also appointed an MBE in the 2019 Queen’s New Year Honours, in recognition of her contribution to the social enterprise sector.

Meetup for anyone anywhere interested in whether there is a place for playfulness in shaping how we think, feel and act on climate change.

Sign up to the meetup

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-digital-poverty-mapping-the-bath-digital-divide-tickets-647128959137

How as a community of Bath might we address the digital divide in our city and ensure all our young people have equal access to technology?

At the opening of the festival, our first event will be an interactive workshop event bringing community together to collectively map the Bath Digital Divide -

• What do we know about the problem - where is it, what is it, and what do we want to do about it?

• What is already happening and what can we do to accelerate what is already there?

• What can we do now, and for the longer term, and where do we need to influence?

This is a call to action for our teachers, local businesses, tech and charity sectors, local government and philanthropists to come together as a community to apply ourselves to addressing the digital divide in Bath.

Our particular focus initially will be on the impact for young children in our schools and their longer term outcomes.

Related events addressing the Digital Divide during the Bath Digital Festival

At the opening of the festival, this first event to address the Digital Divide will map the problem and make sense of what initiatives already exist.

We will next kick-off a hackathon, bringing our tech community together to address an aspect of our digital divide challenge. One challenge we know exists already is access to the internet at home via an affordable, reliable and appropriate connection varies across our area. Sign up to take part.

At the end of the week, we will be in discussion with Wera Hobhouse to present a call to action to address this city challenge, sign up here.

Together we can bridge the digital divide.

Tuesday 11 July | Online | 15:30 - 17:00 BST

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Event by Bethnal Green Ventures

We’re running investment readiness workshops for tech for good entrepreneurs to equip founders from all walks of life with the knowledge and resources to determine their best strategy in raising funding for their businesses.

In this workshop, we'll cover the routes to engaging with investors (VCs and angels) and what to do to prepare to raise investment.

We'll dive deeper into the metrics and milestones most commonly associated with the early-stage funding lifecycle, from pre-seed to Series A, what you might expect during due diligence at the early stages and dig into fund mechanics to help you determine which investors might be best to engage with.

Who is this for?

• For any startup founders using technology to tackle the world’s pressing social and environmental challenges.

• If you're at the very early stages thinking about how to raise funding for your business for the first time.

So if that's you, register now and join online.

11 July | In-person, Bath - 430 - 6pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/young-peoples-digital-learning-environments-imagining-the-future-tickets-647099701627

How would young people like to experience digital learning? Through consultation with young people, we are bringing together our community to co-create ideas for what young people need from digital learning spaces.

Our project invites a more personalised creative approach to learning that is welcoming, nurturing and supportive, with young people as active citizens and agents in shaping their own education.

This event will build upon consultation with young people from secondary schools across Bath in the run up to the festival. We will bring the learnings and ideas to this space.

We invite anyone interested (educators, learning technologists, educational psychologists, therapists, parents and carers) to join us in a session to bringing forward your perspectives, to listen to the voices of young people and to initiate a community to co-create ideas for the future.

About the team

Dr Penny Hay is newly appointed as Professor of Imagination at Bath Spa University. Penny is an artist, researcher and educator, specialising in the arts, imagination, nature-based and creative education. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Director of Research for House of Imagination, a charity devoted to supporting young people's creativity and imagination. Penny's new book Children are Artists is based on her PhD research which focused on how adults can support children's learning identity as artists. Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny is an active Fellow of the RSA, Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and has awards from Action for Children’s Arts and Creative Bath.

Madeleine Holt is an education campaigner and filmmaker. She made the documentary “Above all, Compassion: the Story of XP school”. She helped set up the campaign Rescue Our Schools, which is part of the More than A Score alliance for alternatives to high stakes testing in primary schools. Madeleine is a member of the Private Education Policy Forum (PEPF) which looks at the effect of private education on society. She is also involved in the Time’s Up for the Test campaign to phase out the 11+. Madeleine also runs Meet the Parents, a pioneering project in London to persuade families to support their local state schools. Madeleine was culture correspondent on Newsnight in her previous career.

Ian Pocock is the MD for Research and Service Design at Transform, a technology and data consultancy. Ian has extensive experience designing public services in the UK & internationally. His teams won the 2021 Service Design Network Award for the transformation of Immigration and Asylum Appeals and 2019 Good Design Australia Award for their work on digital public health services. His specialisms include human-centred design, product management and behaviour change. He is also a certified Lego Serious Play Facilitator.

Dr Chris Bagley is Director of Research at States of Mind, Co-Director of Square Peg and a lecturer, tutor and doctorate research supervisor at The Institute of Education, UCL. He is a teacher, Educational Psychologist and writer. As a practitioner, Chris has spent many years working with the most marginalised young people and families and in particular, those subject to school exclusion and the youth justice system. Chris co-delivers 'Participatory Action Research' projects, led by young people and supported by doctorate researchers at the Institute of Education with a focus on evaluating education systems and actioning change. Website: www.chrisbagley.co.uk

3SG are delighted to be teaming up with Tech4good South West and techSPARK as part of the Bath Digital Festival. 

https://www.3sg.org.uk/event-details/digital-surgery-workshop

This is our first-ever Digital Surgery Workshop where you can bring your digital questions and we'll match you up with an expert who can help! Any digital question is welcome, whether it be about the systems you use, managing your data, digital marketing, setting up a website or anything else for that matter!

You will also have the opportunity to network with other like-minded organizations and learn from their experiences. Don't miss this opportunity to get the digital help you need to make a bigger impact. Register today! We'll then send you a very quick pre-event survey to better understand your needs before you attend the workshop.

Workshop Schedule:

09.30 to 09.50 - Tea and coffee welcome

09:50 to 10:00 - Welcome and outline of surgery structure

10.00 to 12.00 - Digital Surgery workshops

Are you a digital expert? We'd love to get you involved in sharing your knowledge with local organisations. Get in touch!

Wednesday 12th July | Online & in person Bristol 6-8pm

https://www.meetup.com/greentech-south-west/events/292598957/

Join Green Tech South West for an informal fireside chat with the pioneering Dale Vince, Green Industrialist and Founder of Ecotricity, Skydiamond, BritWind, Devil’s Kitchen & Green Britain Foundation.

14 July | In-person, Bath - 11-12pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-digital-poverty-a-city-divided-tickets-647168527487

This final event in our Digital Divide series will bring together a discussion with Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath to present what we know, the map of the digital divide in Bath with a call to action for city-wide focus to address the issue.

Digital Poverty

You’re far less likely to have access to the online world if you’re living on a low income. In fact, the lower your income the less likely it is. That means – increasingly so – not having access to the fundamentals of life. From social security, to healthcare, education and training, to finding work and applying for jobs – critical services are more and more online.

So digital inclusion is no longer something that’s ‘nice to have’ – it’s an essential. And being cut off from digital isn’t just an inconvenience – it compounds and exacerbates poverty. That’s no longer something we can ignore if we’re interested in a just society. (Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA)).

In May 2023 the DPA launched the National Delivery Plan, which “outlines an initial roadmap for ending digital poverty by 2030”.

Mission Six of that plan is “Increase local capacity to provide joined-up digital inclusion support to individuals and communities”; while we now have a national plan that aims to fix this issue in our society, it is on us locally in the tech sector to step up and play a part in acting on and delivering the outcomes of that plan.

The situation in Bath

Bath is included in the affectionately coined “Silicon Gorge” (Wikipedia, 2019) which describes our region’s high density of technology expertise and innovation. Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) is ranked in the 2019 Indices of Deprivation as one of the 20% most affluent areas in the country (BANES, 2022).

However this average measure disguises the fact that Whiteway and Twerton West are among the 10% most deprived areas in England. In Twerton, 35% of children live in poverty (BANES, 2019) and the cost of living crisis is expected to result in 4,000 more people in BANES entering poverty in 2023 (BANES, 2022). 52% of people surveyed in BANES complained about their broadband connection (BANES, 2022).

As employment requires more digital skills, and access to key services moves towards digitisation, these statistics indicate a significant likelihood of persistent exclusion for many of Bath’s citizens.

Related events addressing the Digital Divide during the Bath Digital Festival

At the opening of the festival, our first event as a new Bath Digital Divide Collective will map the digital divide in Bath, if you'd like to join this event, sign up here.

After this event we will kick-off our hackathon, bringing our tech community together to address an aspect of our digital divide challenge challenge. One challenge we know exists already is access to the internet at home via an affordable, reliable and appropriate connection varies across our area. Sign up to take part.

Together we can bridge the digital divide

Tuesday 8 August | Online | 08:30 - 10:00 BST

Sign-up

Event by Bethnal Green Ventures

We’re running investment readiness workshops for tech for good entrepreneurs to equip founders from all walks of life with the knowledge and resources to determine their best strategy in raising funding for their businesses.

In this workshop, we'll cover the routes to engaging with investors (VCs and angels) and what to do to prepare to raise investment.

We'll dive deeper into the metrics and milestones most commonly associated with the early-stage funding lifecycle, from pre-seed to Series A, what you might expect during due diligence at the early stages and dig into fund mechanics to help you determine which investors might be best to engage with.

Who is this for?

• For any startup founders using technology to tackle the world’s pressing social and environmental challenges.

• If you're at the very early stages thinking about how to raise funding for your business for the first time.

So if that's you, register now and join online.

Bristol on 11-13th October 2023

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