Happy Friday readers!

As strong advocates for tech for good we believe that tech can play a crucial role in driving better outcomes for people and planet. However, even with the best intentions, tech for good still has to respond to unintended consequences. 

Unintended consequences can sometimes feel abstract, especially if you’re relatively early on in your journey building a tech product or service. With this in mind, this week we’re looking at tools and resources that can help you to get to grips with consequence scanning and build a mindset to anticipate risks.  Do check out our tech for good resource directory for more handy guides and toolkits. 

Have a great weekend and to the many of you who have had/are getting hair cuts this week in England - I am very jealous! 💇 
 

Liv (Tech for Good Global Team)

#People-Planet Approach and responsible tech 

🌍  Space 10 want us to move beyond human-centred design and think about a people-planet approach.

🔮 What is consequence scanning and why is it a must for responsible innovators? Download the kit from Doteveryone and check out Omidyar Network’s Ethical Explorer. 

🤖 What are some of the unintended consequences arising from developments in tech so far?

💻 Check out this consequence scanning session from mysociety. 
 

News in tech for good:
 

💰 Black-Owned Tech Company Yappa Raises $3.5 Million To Combat Online Harassment. 
 

🔵 European VC firm Pale Blue Dot plans to fund 40 “planet-positive” startups. They have just closed their €87m climate tech fund. 

🎙 This podcast with Nanjira Sambuli touches on technology, philanthropy and civil society. Definitely worth a listen!

🌳  Clim8 has come out of an eight-month beta testing period and officially launched its new app. It promises to help fix the dysfunctional ethical investment world. 

🩺  The digital transformation associated with the pandemic had a profound impact on healthcare. There are so many new developments, like this AI which could help cure colon cancer. 

👀  Have a look at some of the tech for good innovations tackling poverty and unemployment.
 

The tech for good newsboard 📍

• Rolling invitation for anyone interested in joining our Slack community. Connect with more than 200+ peers passionate about tech for good. 

• Gather is a new community for digital, creative and tech leaders in the Liverpool City Region. Check them out here. 

• Are you building an impact startup focusing on one of the 12 domains in the social foundation of the doughnut in Europe? There are only 2 more weeks left to apply to the Impact Shakers startup awards! Find out more and submit your company today!

• Now is your chance to apply for Year Here’s  2021/22 programme. You’ll leave with frontline experience, practical business skills and a robust venture idea. Apply 2nd May.

• The Social Venture Incubator from the University of Cambridge has expert business advice, training and networking for social ventures with a strong social mission at the core of their businesses. Find out more and Apply by 21st June 2021. 

• Deadline extension! The Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Start Up Programme has extended its application deadline to the 23rd April. Find out more about the programme offerings here.

If you have a funding challenge, grant opening, speaking gig or another opportunity that you want to share - let us know!

What’s going on? 📅

• Come to our next meetup, in collaboration with CAST  on 19th April. We’ll be talking about how better data can make for better futures.

• Bethnal Green Ventures is hosting its first ever Impact and Learning Report launch. Join on 21st April to find out more about BGV's two VC industry firsts. 

• Future Narratives Lab is hosting  “Escape from humanity: the narratives behind Big Tech” on 21st April.

• Join NorthInvest and BGV in a pitch workshop to get your tech for good startup investment ready and shape your venture for growth. 

• The Social Media Summit @ MIT brings together the world’s leaders in social technology to examine the impact of social media on our democracies, economies and public health. Register to join on 22nd April here.
   

Working in tech for good 💼

We’ve trimmed the job section to new arrivals and featured ads only. For the full list head to our website.

• Careful Industries are hiring a Design Lab Lead for the Emerging Infrastructure Lab and a Research Lead for the Civil Society Foresight Observatory. Apply by 29th April. 

• Tech For Good Inc are looking for a Full Stack Web Developer Intern to join their team this summer. Apply by 12th May.

• Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies are hiring a Director of IT Philanthropy Systems. Find out more and apply by 29th June here.

• OpenAQ are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their team. See the full details and apply by 30th May here.

• SocietyWorks are hiring a  Perl Developer. Check out the job description and apply by 7th May here.

• Sumdog are looking for an Edinburgh based (or remote) full stack developer. See the full description and apply by 7th May here.

• CodeYourFuture are hiring a Director of Education. Find out more and apply by 19th June here.

• Citizen Lab is advertising for a number of roles across the US and Europe. Check out all the opportunities here.

• The Mozilla Foundation is looking for a Senior Research. Find out more and apply here. 
   

If you have an opening or know of a job opportunity to do with tech for good, please head to our website and we can look into adding it to the jobs board.

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