Making Your Digital Technologies Work for People, Society and the Planet
Date & time
28 October 2026 | 14.00-15.30
Professional audiences
What's on offer?
Workshop introducing the Digital Good Builder tool
What's it about?
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.
Who's leading the event?
Professor Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, Dee Goddard, Engagement and Impact Specialist and Dr Kim Snooks, Research Associate
Open to
Open to all
Of particular interest to
Anyone building, developing or deploying a digital technology, including people working in small businesses, local government, community or third sector organisations.
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