Making Your Digital Technologies Work for People, Society and the Planet

With the fast pace of technological development, it can be difficult to find the time to consider how the digital tools you use in your work might impact the wider world. Even well-intentioned technologies can end up doing harm by deepening inequalities or causing environmental damage. 

Designed for anyone building, developing or deploying digital technologies in their organisation, this interactive workshop introduces the Digital Good Builder a free, online tool built to enable your technology to have good outcomes for people, society and the planet. The Digital Good Builder team will walk through the ten measures underpinning the Builder, giving you concrete, actionable steps to take to align your technology with your organisation's values. Developed by the Digital Good Network, the tool draws on real-world research and evidence. 

Professor

Helen

Kennedy FBA FacSS

Professor of Digital Society
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

New media theory, practice & creativity
Social media data mining, big data analytics and data visualisation
The myths of new media
Media industries & cultural labour

Email

h.kennedy@sheffield.ac.uk

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