Alex Mecklenburg
Co-Founder - Dot Project, Consequential CIC, Truth & Spectacle
Tech4Good Takover Session 2: Workshop
60 min workshop Entry level 🚀 Business + DigitalCo-presenting with Annie Legge
Tech4Good take over the business track with a panel session & workshop
Tech4Good South West is a member network focused on the intentional use of technology to drive positive outcomes for people and planet.
Tech4Good South West amplifies the positive impact of technology across the region by building a vibrant tech-for-good community. Our mission is to address how technology can support society and tackle the unintended consequences of the digital age. We focus on raising awareness, fostering collaboration, and promoting sustainable approaches to technology.
Our key focus areas include leveraging technology for societal benefit, empowering communities, promoting responsible and ethical tech, and driving regional development to address digital inclusion. Through regular events, workshops, and an active member platform, we are building a collaborative environment where people learn from one another and co-create impactful projects. Ultimately, our goal is to position the South West as a leader in the national tech-for-good movement.
Takeover Theme: Responsible Technology - beyond buzzword and towards a concrete business consideration
Responsible technology has outgrown the ‘buzzword’ stage and is becoming a concrete business consideration across sectors and industries. Research conducted by MIT and Thoughtworks in 2023 showed nearly three-quarters of survey respondents either strongly agree (30%) or somewhat agree (43%) that “responsible technology considerations will eventually come to equal business or financial considerations in importance when organisations make decisions about technology use.
The most cited hurdles to adoption of responsible technology are a lack of senior management awareness (52%), organisational resistance to change (46%), and internal competing priorities (46%).
What the research also showed was that the definition of responsible technology varies across organisations and that there is currently no consensus on which responsible practices should take priority in organisations.
Session 2: Workshop
In the second session, we will host a workshop that facilitates the use of the Consequence Scanning tool to explore the consequences of technology choices and processes, providing participants with an opportunity to reflect on both intended and unintended outcomes.
Bio (continued)
Alex Mecklenburg is a co-founder of Dot Project. Consequential CIC,and Truth & Spectacle
Her work focuses on the intersection of change, storytelling and responsible innovation.
Alex's work focuses on the intersection of change, storytelling and responsible innovation. Through her work, Alex helps teams and organisations develop and scale digital products that align with their values, principles and practices while anticipating the broader societal impacts.