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Can ChatGPT work for charities?
ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by AI and has become increasingly relied upon in the industry, used to make jobs more efficient and effective. With the creation of ChatGPT, should your charity use its potential, or should you take caution before deciding to integrate something that carries weight in the form of ethical questions?
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5 times lived experience changed charity digital tools
When your charity is creating a solution that will exist to help a group of people, any notion of ‘us and them’ should be thrown out the window – along with any assumptions that could be relied on to shape the final product.
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Battling bias in UX research
Let’s all start from an embarrassing truth: we all have biases. It’s not nice to think you’re part of the problem, and harder still if you’ve ever been marginalised yourself. What we can control is noticing the biases, reducing our reliance on them and not letting our own shame get in the way of improving.
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Trauma informed design
Why design is different for charities.
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Simple steps to charity website security
Your charity website security and safety may not be the sexiest of reads... until now. Just kidding, BUT keeping your site and your users' information safe and secure is of paramount importance. Let's break down what your charity can actually do to keep on top of website security...
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The smell of Parkinson’s: A design sprint
Walking into a group meeting for people with Parkinson's, Joy Milne, a retired nurse, recognised a smell that she had noticed on her husband 12 years prior to his diagnosis. This was the smell of Parkinson's.
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The Digital Climate Strike
"Millions of school climate strikers have been leaving their classrooms every Friday. Now they hope that everyone else will join them in action."
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Screw tech ethics
Much is said about the harm digital technology does to humanity, calling for a more ‘ethical’ approach. This approach, argues our co-founder Matt Haworth, carries a risk of unintended consequence in itself, restricting the ability of innovation to make the world a better place.
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GDPR for charities
Much like the stages of grief, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has elicited shock, denial, anger, depression and reflection. We’ve all got until 25th May 2018 to make sure we get through to acceptance and hope.
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The rise of Robin Hood tech
Charities and general do-gooders alike, it’s time to start stealing. Big brands steal your messaging and your campaign ideas to make rich people richer. So it's time to avenge yourselves - start stealing tech in the name of good.
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5 ways social media has been used for good
We’ve looked before at how the internet and social media have been used by people to do amazing things and bring a little joy to the world. But, with so many good deeds going on across Facebook, Twitter and the internet as a whole, we’ve decided to show another few great examples of how the internet has been used for good.
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