Tech For Good + Digital Leadership

Tech For Good + Digital Leadership

Join us at our Cambridge Tech For Good MeetUps throughout 2017.

Tech for Good is a meetup group for people interested in using technology to tackle social issues, from large-scale social change and inequalities, to local civic participation and community building. We bring together people with lived experience and understanding of social issues together with hackers, coders, developers and designers.

This month the theme is – Digital Leadership.

Digital Leadership is necessary so that the internet works better for everyone. For that to happen, our public, civic and business leaders need to become digital leaders - not just so that they can manage specifically digital programmes and projects, but so that they can make sure their entire organisations are relevant and effective in a digital age.

Technology is not change itself; it enables the change that is so transformative. It is about a change of working, a change of culture – changes that are made possible by digital technology.

Hear from speakers Janet Hughes (https://twitter.com/janethughes?lang=en)and James Arthur Cattell as we engage in a debate about Digital Leadership across the whole spectrum.

James Arthur Cattell (https://twitter.com/jaCattell)- Digital specialist in Enabling Digital Transformation, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Also Sam Sparrow (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasparrow/) from CAST (http://www.wearecast.org.uk/)- Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology -
Sam will talk from both direct experience of being a digital leader in a charity startup and also about the work at CAST - creating a raft of leaders within established nonprofits who 'get' digital and can drive the transformation of the sector. Looking at some of the barriers to this and how to overcome them.

Read Janet Hughes' piece about modern Digital Leadership here –

https://doteveryone.org.uk/blog/2017/02/being-an-effective-leader-in-a-digital-age-is-abou/

Tuesday 25 April - Allia Future Business Centre, Cambridge -

6:30pm: Registration & Drinks

7pm: Talks followed by Q&A session

8pm: Networking and Drinks/Nibbles

8:30pm(approx): Close

Hosted and organised by Allia Future Business Centre (http://futurebusinesscentre.co.uk/) in association with Tech for Good Global -

http://futurebusinesscentre.co.uk/events/techforgood-digital-leadership

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