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

Date & time
28 October 2026 | 14.00-15.30

Event format

Attend event in person

Event type

Workshop or training

Event topic

Technology and us

Audience

Adults

Academic discipline

Science and technology studies, Sociology and social policy

Venue

The Hide, 30 Scotland Street, Sheffield S3 7AA

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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