Comic Relief's Tech for Good programme for charities and social enterprises etc
User needs are what make your TfG boat rock. Fudge the needs and you’ll sink. Nail them and you’ll be cresting a wave of user value from here to Tech for Good Bay. Warning: There are a fair few 'musts' and 'shoulds' in this article. Stop reading now if you don't want to be …
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The Tech for Good movement isn’t new anymore. There’s folk who’ve already walked the path, who've dived into its depths and retrieved it's pearls. We should listen to these old timers. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It's precious as a pearl. But when its wisdom belongs to …
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Understand what early stage success looks like and you'll be well placed to set the right expectations for your team and funders. If you're a funder then understand that definitions of success for these projects can't be measured by number of users or volume of impact, not …
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If you understand the common reasons why tech for good projects fail then you'll feel more confident about how to avoid them. Many charities fear failing at tech projects. That's not surprising given the amount of money historically squandered on digital projects (NHS IT …
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You wake up one morning and you've forgotten all you knew about Tech for Good. Or maybe you just woke up already knowing nothing and decided it was time to learn. Either way, you're thinking about how your charity might use tech to deliver better services. You know the …
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Imagine being a new Tech for Good project about to embark on your first exciting digital development journey. One day it could be you. For now though, it's the thirteen projects that we've just funded. Here's what they are going through. Once upon a time Dorothy Gale was just …
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There’s a tonne of useful stuff here. But you gotta know that all views and opinions are those of the Tech for Good programme support team, not Comic Relief and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
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