Tech for Good Organisers
A community of organisers across the UK and Ireland supporting each other to fuel the tech for good movement
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To us, “tech for good” is the intentional use of technology to drive positive outcomes for people and planet. We’re building a community for organisers across the UK and Ireland who are themselves building tech for good communities.
I run a tech for good network and I’d like to be involved!
Great! If you’re happy to stick to our principles (see below) then go ahead and:
Some background to our work:
• Intro Presentation - Find out where we started and why
• Research into The impact of place-based communities and how we established a learning network with seven initial founding member networks.
• Announcement Tweet and Launch event slide deck
Principles we are working to as a network (current iteration):
If you’re running your own community, you may also find the Tech for Good Global Principles useful guidance.
This is where we’re currently getting organised to become a supportive place. This will also become more of an active place for us to support each other ongoing
techforgoodorganisers.uk/slack
email [email protected] to join
Updates at the moment mainly consist of us self organising towards a launch, but ongoing will hopefully become a useful place for us networks to share stuff between ourselves.
Not super active at the mo - but it’s here in case this is your thing!
techforgoodorganisers.uk/whatsapp
Where we are sharing useful documents, research and templates that might help us all become more efficient
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Td5iaWkfdTwbYU_ZxkeEGcMSiMofsQts?usp=sharing
Where we are tracking progress and updates e.g on launch. Needs updating.
https://trello.com/techforgooduknetowrkorganisers
Airtable
Where we are tracking our costs and funding
https://airtable.com/shrQgRIb2Ds37iQwg
Mural
Where we’re recording our Outcomes
Events for the network of organisers - not events put on by groups for their members.
Subscribe to all internal network events using this link:
https://www.techforgoodorganisers.uk/calendar
We’re working towards creating a democratic, self organising, inclusive community. To get there, there are a bunch of things we’re working on. We also eventually want to start working on things that will help make our lives easier as community organisers. We tend to work in Slack, that’s the best place to input if you want to get involved.
Working on now:
To progress ASAP with budget:
Done:
Founding members are representatives of TfG networks across the UK or Ireland. Founding members have the remit to launch and activate the community in line with the vision
This remit is for 6 months only (to Sep 1st 2021).[a]
At this stage:
The founding members who represent their network organisers in the initial 6 months are:
Add a rough figure for how much time (in hrs per week) you think you can give to the Tech for Good UK Network over the next few weeks.
Name | April | Ongoing | Notes/ questions |
Rebecca Rae-Evans | 4 hours | 4 hours | |
Annie Legge | 4 hours | 4 hours | |
Arielle Tye | 2-3 hours | 1-2 | |
Chris Ashworth | 2-3 hours | 4 hours | |
Michael McAndrew | |||
David van der Velde | 2hours | 2hours | |
Pauline Roche | 2 hours | 2 hours | I have a new job as a Digital Literacy Coordinator so my time is more limited now |
Kate White | 1 to 2 hrs | 1 to 2 hrs | |
Dama Sathianathan | 2 hours | 1- 4hrs | |
Ellie Hale | 2-4 hrs | 1-4 hrs | I will be mainly representing Catalyst as there are other reps from my local meetups :) |
David Scurr | 2 hours | 2 hours | |
Edward Saperia |
The members will use Decision Making by Consent. This process is as defined in Sociocracy* and is summarised as:
Proposal details are logged in the shared proposal folder. Those in black are successful proposals that have become policy. Those in red are yet to pass. Discussions for each proposal are held on Slack, unless otherwise stated. Where possible, link here to proposals and discussion and then fully document outputs in the relevant place in this document or in the shared proposal folder. Anyone can take responsibility for this task, but particularly the proposer should make sure this is up to date.
# | Proposal | Proposed by | Outcome |
1.0 | We introduce a numbering and versioning system for proposals | David van der Velde | Pass |
2.1 | Membership Criteria | David van der Velde | Pass |
4.0 | Defining a Tech for Good Network | David van der Velde | Pass |
5.0 | Quorum for async proposals on Slack | Ellie Hale | Pass |
6.0 | Slack proposal amendments | Ellie Hale | Pass |
7.0 | Launch event aims | David Scurr | Pass |
8.0 | Code of Conduct | Barry O’Kane | Pass |
9.0 | Data sharing agreement | Annie Legge | Pass |
10.0 | Retreat crew | Pass |
Created by a group of the founding members on the place-based communities project.
Volunteer onboarding resources:
Governance resources:
Event organiser templates:
Mapping tool (password: d0tpr0ject!t4good).
How long-term does a commitment to running a community group need / likely to be?
A: We don’t have a fixed policy on this, as community groups come in many forms and tend to ebb and flow with the energy and resources of their organisers. Most of the founding funders have been running communities for at least 2 years, and some up to 6 years, but many have had dormant periods. We’d welcome anyone who’s interested in organising even a small thing, for a short time (and you might get hooked!) :)
We’re trying to get a list of who’s doing what in the UK tech for good community organising space. If you organise a UK Tech for Good type community, add yourself to the list!
Main contact: Bex Rae-Evans
🦄 Organiser www.techforgood.live
💼 Director wearereply.com
🏠 Manchester
Other techforgood.live organisers
Sacha [email protected] (Newsletter/ blogging)
Harriet [email protected] (Volunteers)
Fay [email protected] (Social Media)
Jonny [email protected] (Podcast/ brand)
Greg [email protected] (podcast and finance stuff)
Alina [email protected] (research, blogging and newsletter stuff)
Marie Wilson [email protected] (Connection with SalfordCVS and 10GM)
Hera, Sophie, Tom, Harry, Paul, Mille, Sam (Podcast contributors)
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🌱 nobody
patcon
🌱 nobody
🐦 @patcon_
Dama Sathianathan
Dama Sathianathan & Ellie Hale (she/her)
💼 Bethnal Green Ventures & Catalyst
📧 [email protected] / [email protected]
Edward Saperia
💼 Dean Newspeak House
🏠 London
🐦 @edsaperia / @nwspk
Kate White
💼 Superhighways
Richard Collings
Tracey Gyateng
Jonathan Chevallier
💼 CEO Charity Digital
Marc Sloan
Sandra Pallier
💼 Designer at Microsoft
James Curtis
Sophie Raeburn
🐦 @ncvo
Josh Thomas
Ian Watt
🏠 Aberdeen
🐦 @watty62
Barry O’Kane
Jane Griffin
💼 AND Digital
Maddie Stark
💼 SCVO
Dwayne Pascal, Milosz Falinski
David Scurr
💼 CAST
Ellie Hale (she/her)
💼 Catalyst
🐦 @eg_hale
Bryan Rossi-Anderson
🏠 Brighton
David Van Der Velde
💼 Land Digital
🏠North Tyneside
William Mortada
🏠 Newcastle upon Tyne
Annie Legge
🦄 Tech4Good South West and techforgoodsw.org.uk
🏠 Bath
Green Tech South West
🦄 Green Tech South West and https://greentechsouthwest.org/
🏠 Bristol
📧 [email protected] / [email protected]
Rebecca Tregenna
🏠 Exeter
Michael McAndrew
🏠 Exeter
Alicia Teagle
🦄 www.technologyvolunteers.org
/💼 SR2
🏠 Bristol
Pauline Roche
🏠 Birmingham
🦄 This Is Our Brum and Birmingham Tech Week
🏠 Birmingham
🦄 community organiser ProMo-Cymru in Wales
🏠 Cardiff
Community of practice (Youth) as well as being location based
Chris Thorpe
Chris Ashworth
Clara
Giselle Cory, Executive Director
Dulcie Vousden, Data Science Lead
Suzy East, Community Project Manager
Nicole Holgate, Communications Officer
Other people who might like to join!
🐦 @CIACIC1
https://techforgood.global/tech-for-good-directory
https://airtable.com/shrJzniVbxdWcVAd8/tblI7sTP2cnHgh8zD/viwD6afr3lc6X7bFM
https://www.meetup.com/Product-For-Good/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ByiUssXsgDFKBbsiyXqU0RgMiZ0DNdd/view?usp=sharing
https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/
https://www.meetup.com/One-Digital-Meetup/
https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk
http://www.meetup.com/Journocoders
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoftwareTechEALondon
https://www.meetup.com/EdTech-Developers-Meetup
https://localgovdigital.slack.com/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/localgov-digital-10479776496
https://www.meetup.com/London-Open-Data-Missions/[b]
https://www.meetup.com/London-Gov-Design-Meetup/
https://www.meetup.com/fintech-for-good
https://www.meetup.com/Humane-Tech-London/[c]
https://actbuildchange.com
https://www.meetup.com/AI-Ethics-London
https://www.meetup.com/London-ICT4D/
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-uk
https://www.meetup.com/medtechlondon/
https://www.meetup.com/Net2Camb/
💻 meetup.com/Women-Hack-For-Non-Profits
🐦 @WHFNP
💻 wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Events
Open Data Camp
💻 https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-pzvZdizC/
http://fairsay.com/networks/ecampaigning-forum
[a]Looks like we should review this at our next call. Perhaps we can send calendar invites to ourselves for future reminders?
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