 Felly, Elin yn ei ddweud ei nhw'n gwybod o'r cyfnodol sydd wedi'u gwneud y cyfnodol yn hyn i ddimol i'r cyfnodol a chydwch ar y cyfnodol i gael gfaith ym Mhwgarthu Llywodraeth yn ymddangos i fynd i'r llunio'r iawn. Elin, rydym yn ei ddim yn gwybodaeth i'r ffordd. Rhaid i'n meddwl i'r cyfnodol, pan gennym ni i'n meddwl i'r gwaith. As you said, my name is Ellen, and I have a job in IT at Concern. A couple of years ago, we started out on this new venture to look at tech for good in Dublin. I want to set a little bit of context for you about the global movement. Before we started our group, we had a look around. Really over the last decade, there has been a slow movement across main cities around the world a'r hoffwyr, a'r hoffwyr a'r hoffwyr ynghyd i'r hynod ymlaen i'r tydwydau gyda'r rhai o'r unig o'r bwysigol, ac i'n bwysigol ar y cyfnodau a'r hyffwyr. Yn ei wneud o'r unrhyw yng nghyd, oherwydd rydw i'w hyd i'r hynod yw Lundin, barcelonau, yn Gymru, ac oes hynny'n bryddoedd, oeddenbryd ac Cardiff, Exeter, Vancouver, a Mumbay, Nairobi, Auckland, San Francisco, Adelaide, ac mae'n gwyfnod o'r llwyddoedd, rydyn ni'n gwybod i fynd yn digwydd. Wrth gwrs yna, ydych chi'n meddwl erbyn symud i'r ddweud. Mae'r ddechrau i ddweud o'r ddweud yma, a'r lleoedd yma. Ond yna, mynd i'n meddwl ei ddweud yr ethos, a hyrryb i'r meddwl fydd yn digwydd o'r bodi'n meddwl i'r digwydd o'r sector cyfnodig, i'r bwysig o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, ac o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, a dweud yn gweithio'r cwrs ar gael, a yna fyddwn ni'n dweud y tawwch yn ei wneud am fwy o bryd. Rydw i'r mwyaf yw'r gwybod yn ymgyrchu i'r bwrdd o gwybod o'r tyn am gyfosiaeth gwahanol, a'i arweinydd o'r cwrs, ac yna'n hwyl i'r cyfnodol, ac rydw i'r cyffredinol i ddweud yr unrhyw yn ysgol. ac yn ystod yn cyfrifio ar gyfer cyfnodau a'r amser o'r might ymddiannol. Yn hyn, mae'n amser i'n gwybod i'w gweithio i'n ymddiannol i ddweud i ddim yn dyblin. Mae'r ymddiannol i'n gwybod i'n gwybod i ddim yn 2017. Mae'r cyfrifio i fynd i dyblin yn Ymddiannol i ddigonol i'w ddweud i'w gweithio i'r ymddiannol i ddweud i dyblin. ac rydyn ni'n gallu bod gael cyfnodd ac yn ddau'r gwrthod, i'w ddechrau i ddweud yn dybl yn ein bod yn gweithio. A'n y ddiwedd y tro iddynt o'i cyfrannu a'r ddechrau, ac mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, ddim yn ddegwyd, a'r cyfrannu cyfrannu, ac mae'n ddegwyd i-degwyd ac mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'r ddechrau'n ddegwyd. Ond we'n ddweud o'n ddweud gweld o'n cyfrifio mewn siaradio honno? Ond we'n ddweud am amser o'n ddweud o'r bobl yn go fyddion gweithiau ei gennym o'ch f難igolol i'ch ddeutigaeth a lanch o'r bobl, ac oeddwn i'r pwysig o'n cyffredin iawn, oed yma i gwybod i yn yr ysgol, a'r bobl yn cynhysig oherwydd i'n ddweud hwnnw i'n ddweud hwnnw yn gwybod i'r bobl i'r ddeutigaeth a'u gwybod i'r holleg i fynd i'r bobl. mae'n amlwg maen nhw'n dwyliadu gwirionedd ac i'r cwmwynt iawn. Ond mae hwnna, a'r cyffredinydd cymryd i'r gweithio'r cyffredinydd a'r cyffredinydd, a'r cyffredinydd yn ei wneud. Ond fel yw'r ffordd, mae'n meddwl 22-23, mae'n gweithio'r gweithio, a'r ffordd o bwysig o'r ffordd 40 o gweithio'r gweithio, oedd ychydig ar gyfer y ffordd o'r gweithio'r dweud, ac y maen nhw'n gweithio'r gweithio. We use Meetup Group, and on there we have about 1,900 members. Meetup is great because people can hear about the events, we also put them on event brides, but it's really quite a simple model. We go out and find people and they come and talk. We have a co-sponsored Liberty IT and anti-works pay for donuts and tea and coffee. AIB give us a room above the bank in Grafton Street, which is very central, people can get there easily. We outgrew a smaller room and we got a bit bigger, so we had to move up a step. I'm going to go back to that slide because I want to talk about the events and really give you an idea about the topics that we've featured. You can see a few examples up there, but tech for good is such a wide umbrella. The basic principle is if someone is trying to solve a problem or help people using technology, really taking profit out of the equation in the short term, it's something we can talk about. If you go on our website you'll see all the historical events, but in the last few months we've had, for example, we had an event in June about using 3D printing as a disruptive technology and what people have been doing with 3D printing. We had a speaker who talked about how he had been building artificial hands for children who were waiting for prosthetics, and often you have to wait a while because children grow really quickly, but he was able to 3D print hands and multiple versions in different sizes. The kids also were involved in seeing the 3D printing and he bought cheap printers from China and would leave them in situ after he left. That's a really interesting event that we had. We had another one on neurodiversity, which is where we met my dyslexic. Mark's going to talk more about their product today. We also had someone to talk at the same event about how you can make your workplace more autism friendly and some of the things that we might not always see, which can be minor adjustments which can make workplaces more accessible. In October then we launched a new free Irish Sign Language app which had been developed to teach people sign language using short videos and everyone came along and used the app and it was really great because Irish Sign Language is slightly different to other Sign Languages so we didn't have one of those before. You can find out more about that online. Last month we had quite a niche event all about bees and how people are using artificial intelligence and big data and the internet for things to figure out bee behaviours and to try and inform the best policies for protecting and developing bee colonies. You can see from those examples that it's so wide-ranging that you really can find little pockets of activity across so many different topics and that's why it's so fun and interesting. I just want to go back now to the inclusion and diversity question. It was really important to us from the very beginning that this group was for everyone. Two female founders were determined to have 50% of our speakers be women. We've actually ended up having all sorts of different speakers including children, people signing with Irish Sign Language, people with autism speak, we've had professors, we've had volunteers, obviously people from nonprofits as well. So a really wide range of speakers and really anyone who wants to speak can. We also have a Q&A at every session, lots of interaction. We want people to know they don't have to be technical to come along so we make that clear and we put a sort of everybody welcome message on all the events and I invite people to bring a guest. We have kept all our events free, we don't want costs to be a barrier and then we've also made sure that our venues are accessible, we had to stop using one place because they didn't really have wheelchair access and we felt like we didn't want to really have to worry about someone not being able to get into the building. So we try and find topics that are inspiring. We try to listen to the group and take their feedback and change things around. So as much input as possible. We want it to be less led and more collaborative. Right, so just a little bit really about Dublin. I don't know if everyone knows about all of these groups, these are just some that I know about. So since we started in the two, two and a half years, we found a range of groups, most of them the majority volunteer led sort of unofficial evenings and weekends types of groups who run their own version of this sort of problem solver change maker enterprises. So everything from Code for Island who are building solutions to everyday problems to data kind Dublin who offered to do data analysis and data science for non-profits who maybe can't afford to do that themselves. We've got people encouraging new start-ups, BlockW that I met Joyce through. People hacking accessibility issues around Dublin. And then people matching new and twos with non-profits who would love to have some help but very specialised help. So I think what's fantastic about Dublin that there is this vibrant ecosystem of change makers and people who want to influence and change their environment and we all support each other so we meet up, we talk on Twitter, we invite people to each other's events. You know, we're all trying to do a lot with not much money so we have to help each other. So if someone says to me, I've got this event, will you tell your members? We try and do that where there's a common theme. So I'm not sure what time I'm at but I'm not going to... You're doing great. I'm doing great. So this is my last slide and I know I've rushed through a bit but there is that we did do a TED Talk in June and actually I haven't mentioned any of the examples in that talk so if you watch that you'll get three different examples of our tech for good experience. But there's lots more we want to do. Obviously we have limited time resources but we would love to share more projects and share stories so if people know things happening the only way we hear really is someone dropping us an email or tweeting us. We want to make more connections both locally but also globally. We do talk to the other tech for good group leaders and share ideas but there's probably a lot more we could do there as well. I mean we'd love to have UK Island Summit or something along those lines. Obviously that's a bigger enterprise. We want to advocate more for this trustworthy ethical approach to tech which is so easy to forget about and it's so important. If our human rights are not respected by the tech that's being built then really we're in a world of trouble and we have to raise that issue at every opportunity. We want to offer more help so when people come to our meet-ups and say they want to volunteer we'd love to be able to find ways to match them effectively with organisations that need help and to support side projects and collaborations like Andy's going to talk about a side project which came out from one of our events about a year ago and we'd love to be able to see more of that happening. Sometimes I get random emails of people wanting to fund projects and help and support and we don't really have a mechanism for that at the moment but some of these projects are not necessarily established enough to avail of social innovation fund Ireland or social enterprise Ireland. They may be a bit stuck in a gap where some support might be useful so there may be a gap there. We've had contact from other parts of Ireland where people were thinking about starting groups in Galway and Derry particularly we'd like to encourage them to do that. The groups are all independent but we think the more the merrier. To raise this conversation about the importance of technology being used for good as high level as we can get tell as many people as we can and really get to a point where the default should be that technology is something that serves us, serves our needs, serves our communities, respects our human rights and doesn't cause us long term injury or damage or loss of power in our own decision making. So we would like to see all tech really to be tech for good which is why we continue with this quite simple message and talking to as many people as we can really. So that's my introduction, thank you for listening. Thanks Ellen for that very powerful message and I think everybody here can take that on board themselves and let other people know about it but that is really important because we hear all the time about technology, what it's going to do for jobs, what money is going to bank and all the rest of it but in real impact will be in these little things that change people's lives so thank you very much for that. We move now on to Andy and Andy is the resident technologist I learned at lunchtime for tech for good. Yeah he's a big supporter of the group. He's the sole supporter of the group. He's a software engineer, a technologist with Liberty IT and he's worked in a whole range of areas including banking, DIT, his computer science background and business information system and he's one of Silicon Republic's fintech influencers to follow so we've met him here today, it's very important. So Andy will discuss the development of technology-based solutions to support homelessness services and very well links into what Ellen has been saying about seeing a problem and seeing how tech can support that so we look forward to your presentation and I think any of you would like to go to tech for good meet-up, there's one tomorrow night as it happens in AIB on your homelessness app as well so that's another opportunity to see what happens in tech for good so Andy thank you very much. Great. Time for a bunch of munitions on the board here because I'd like to articulate as a talk. Andy, some of it or maybe it's your T which is based partly on the mutual it's kind of global multinational insurance company we don't actually sell on the market here our sister company, my mom likes that insurance we only build so for our parent company so the main reason we've been involved in CSO is actually something we're interested in doing in the zuanna, we want to use our technical skills for social good and to tank the leadership support there's two things which I want to touch on today I'm going to give an example of this work for the homeless charity we've been doing but I also want to touch on really about the ethics of engineering I think engineers like me are quite privileged in that for affording it's a plastic jobs market but I was a job today, I'm a job tomorrow morning probably in any country so the engineers have the privilege of being able to choose what they work on and it's good to be able to do that because recently there was this time a guy was overloaded companies like Google and Amazon Agress and Microsoft some of their workers in engineering are beginning to feel dubious about some of the contracts they might be doing with basic pentagon mass surveillance of wrong populations but engineers have the ability to actually say hang on a second should we do this to try to get into the strong pump and then you just leave and take your skills to someone else and that is probably something which more junior engineers need to be so maybe they are made aware of that to do a voice and influence things because businesses are generally or businesses are mainly interested in money but of course it is probably an old one which is something I've probably seen many times at this age but I love talks in schools, in colleges senior business leaders and pretty much every single talk I give is an energy but I choke this in because I decided to see what your action is so this is basically a modern look at the classic trolleybop if it is a driver's car there are no steering wheels there are no brakes people call them driver's cars they are not really cars cars are steering wheels 100 years ago people used to call cars horses carriages 20 years we wouldn't call them cars we would call them pods or something but if there is a driver's car it is hurting on the road and there is a blockage here it is bothered a tree is following a tree is following in the storm and potentially those people are not supposed to be there maybe they are but the car has sensors it knows that it is going to kill these people if it hits them but it also knows if it swerves into the next thing it is going to kill everybody in the car so what should the driver's car do opens it to credit none of the time if the people are there if it is 80km an hour the driver's car is going to drive faster so it knows that tree falls but the sensors will not complete as many seconds it doesn't have time to stop a very simple question I look at this because it is indignant about this but are gestures and signals the code but it has gone really fast but run away obviously so it doesn't have time to go all the way so someone is going to die so someone is going to die ok ok so if it makes it out with advocates if it is a prison van is that making a difference what happens in prison van going to the death row and the people in the van are going to execute it but it is a really hard question to answer the main point I am making is that someone like me probably a white male in his 30s is making his decision somewhere already so to someone in Silicon Valley it is probably a guy and they are at a computer if then else, if car is on this speed of children on the road and that is quite interesting I give a lot of talks to kids in schools about how it sounds like it is a great career choice for all of the reasons but you have the potential to try and see some of the things so the children today are making the decisions so I just thought it is interesting how annoying people get about but there is an answer in 20 years time if only cars are driving this we won't walk on roads anymore no one must walk on motorways eventually no one will walk on roads so an example of I see a technical road having two strands one has been out ago in the work you actually do and the two are using the skills outside of your your core job or if your core job can be can actually be something good it is using those skills a lot of tech companies are interested in CISOR a lot of CISOR do is not new technology it is the go places the paint walls are amazing as well but we also have the ability to build things and create things as a technical road event last year I heard that Antifling is the CEO of the city of the homeless basically it is an interesting journey it is almost entirely volunteer it sees all the CEOs of the volunteer the marketing guys of the volunteer and each night on the streets of Dublin there are three or four large groups of people facing food and clothes and comfort to the people who are sleeping ropes so when all of us are at home watching ethics or on the streets bringing help to the people who need it and as part of the process I have doubted them a few times and it is kind of like people on drugs and things the people you meet outside of mental problems they are not on the streets because of any choice really so Antifling CEO was saying to me last year to be able to build an app to help these volunteers and to just put them forward I needed to have 15 rounds so I wouldn't spend it on that and so I basically said this and my brother should be able to do something with that so in the from summer to summer this year we were basically building an app for the volunteers to use and we have been on websites as well on the back end really simple app right I think it's kind of mentioned here I'll jump back to what she is it's when you do work I guess try all the time what you need is because a lot of people actually try and create solutions to charities that they think they need but they don't actually need so the original need the original need from the charity was they've given a gift of about 20 or so a tablet iPads or other tablets I think from eBay I think you know someone who said this and the great volunteers could use these on the grave because it's currently there to our process of paper they can't keep the meat which we need on paper when I digitised it as soon as I met the users so the volunteers said we don't use tablets because it's too awkward to work on our phones so we have some properties I think in the workshops with what real problems are what ratings did David on it I mean we kind of come up with a big shopping list of all the useful things once I went with David at night and a few times and saw what did he do and realised he didn't need any of that stuff it's just what the charity needed and since then we've built something pretty simple to solve it based on the latest one all the kind of information you may need to get a place to call to find out if somebody is a hospital et cetera and it also gives them the tool to count the people they need and honestly kind of fight females here for females here and then in the background we begin a website which gives them all this information to have a format on maps and basically we digitise what is paper process for and so they can start to use proper data analytics on a way of resources or needed et cetera and interesting it's all being deployed and built on serverless architecture basically it's on Amazon's cloud and it's basically running for free so we're editing a total cost of our engineering work and the total cost of this is $12 for kind of that sort of domain and the website but because the usage is low enough it's not so much for free so it's basically a free solution for a charity whereas if you went to an actual company to build for a charity you'd meet in space and stuff you know so that's the website if you're interested in tokens or if you want more that you can try to sell to manage on the street there's another type of world a medium about homelessness to see you home from ICH to put me someone from giveback.ie which basically could come up with a browser plug-in if you're an internet browser on your computer and they're tied into the place of Amazon basically if you spend money online the ICH shares will get a percentage of us and as they call Zoe Obenheim who's basically been started at homeshopper.ie it's basically she's come to a way to digitise the transfer of council houses between people who have council houses they could currently tell the wind experts and she's basically come up with a a way to digitise it that's ultimately my right at the stakes of an administration Thank you very much Andy I think what you've sewn very clearly I think maybe Owen Murphy should have a good word in terms of looking at these issues because they're very important to be able to document what happens and you've shown how with particular interest you can use technology in a way that helps the users but also the charging to expand their resources much more effectively and I think it's very interesting just in the broader area of technology in Europe and particularly AI the ethical question is a really key issue and I think that's what we think generally in technology we can add something too so this is really another important part of that ethical approach so thank you very much Mark Mark is the CEO of iDyslexic is the world's first social network for people living and working with dyslexia and and or ADHD it's in 40 countries and Mark will go through this with you just to tell you a little bit about Mark he won't be surprised to know that he's an entrepreneur his background is in marketing he has also worked as a project manager, sales and as a machine operator so he's a broad range of experiences and he'll speak to us now about how social application for people living and working with dyslexia and ADHD works and I think importantly Mark you tell your own personal journey of getting involved so thank you very much Mark it's a slightly different presentation I'm just going to talk a little bit about myself that's always nice I suppose my journey that more so about myself was George Washington once said that the hardest conflict is the greatest triumph 250 years ago it was suspected that George Washington had learned difficulties and things have not changed for the next 30 years it's absolutely incredible that we still have 80% of students who are bullied in school we also have 43% of those kids ending up with mental health issues 1 in 6 women diagnosed with a learning difficulty end up attending suicide 80% of suicide notes have dyslexic type spelling mistakes so that was a report by the Samaritans in 2018 from the UK and Ireland 6,400 people had committed suicide 80% dyslexic type notes it's terrible so I'm quite asking every single person here today if you could help someone today with a learning difficulty it could be a family member it could be a friend it could be a colleague 1 in 5 people on this planet has a learning difficulty that's 20% of the whole world population it's absolutely astounding it's also free to help people through a dyslexic it's a free app we go through it in the end dyslexic and ADHD are a massive issue for people with these human difficulties I want it once so is my son I have dyslexic ADHD I've struggled in my life and that's why I want to do something about my dead man Mackenzie Mackenzie is now 10 he's been reading him a bedtime story about Peter Rabbit now you're probably all familiar with Peter Rabbit he's mischievous but he's a likable character surrounded by Mr McGregor who was the farmer and at the end of the garden was the fox and the fox was jumping up and down in the steering and he was laughing poor Peter Rabbit was theory he was isolated, he was alone and he was afraid of laughing as he always does in the story but Mackenzie got up out of bed crying and he said to me Dad I know exactly how Peter Rabbit feels I have that every single day in school I'm bullied, I have no friends I'm all alone, the teacher gives out to me everybody gives out to me I don't understand what's going on and nobody understands me and I don't understand anything I look the same as everyone else but I'm totally different, I feel different he then said to me Dad I hate my life and I wish I was dead Now when Mackenzie was 6 6 years of age he was just turning 7 and I was devastated like anybody here who was a parent or have a family member who has difficulties I was absolutely devastated I didn't know what to do so I started to look around looked at different places and I didn't know where to start and I soon realised that I wasn't on my own as I said one in five people out there have a learning difficulty that's 20% again of the population just keep that in your head over a billion people and from research it rises to 2 billion when you add in family members and people who are working in the space so it's a massive chunk it's actually the largest minority in the world issues that I came across in my own journey we went about getting a diagnosis or an assessment and it took nearly three years and the talk about early intervention but they actually don't step in and help kids in school until they're 8 so we spent nearly three years waiting for this diagnosis but we did get it nothing changes there except we started to work on an individual educational plan in the school we were looking, we got a plan, we got a meeting every six months for about 30 minutes to an hour it's insufficient for a child who has not got a difficulty let alone someone who has the whole area was disconnected everybody was working everyone was funded differently and information was tripled and we struggled to find out what was actually happening in the space but then you add in the stigma, ridicule, bullying it's massive we had to do something about it now I was looking, there was 200 guys on a similar journey Brendan and Anthony Morrissey co-founders at Hyderslexic so what is Hyderslexic and that's probably where Hyderslexic is a social educational application it's the world's first social network built here in Ireland for people living and working with dyslexia and ADHD it's the same place for people to share their experiences tell their story because you don't have that on social media if you have it spelling mistakes, people are picking on you there's trolls out there that will actually pick up on little things you can't be free you can be free on our site we also have a geo mapping feature to connect people from all over the world Mackenzie actually found a friend who he now goes horse riding with on a Saturday morning and it's fantastic they're similar, they're very similar so it's two tiggers in the one stage but it's interesting but we've also built in, we're not just a social network we've built in a secure online classroom for people, parents teachers, case workers, mentors coaches to come together and work on that individual plan so you no longer have to wait for six months for a meeting and when you get to that meeting you don't know what way you're going because you try to pave it and it's no good it's like Groundhog Day, it's starting all over again but the fact that you can now get in and work on a child's plan 24-7 the case workers and the professionals are telling us that the difference it's making for them is that they are no longer logistical managers because they have to arrange meetings with all the people involved they can just see more people this is a little video hi there welcome to iDyslexic a new super cool social community for those living and working with dyslexia and ADHD meet new friends just like you share your story while here check out an iDyslexic secure classroom with iDyslexic the future is bright especially designed to connect parents, students, teachers and case workers to help with student IEP progress communication be part of something great sign up for your free account today available on iOS and Android we got a message last week from and took the place of staff that we could never think of and we're only up and running since this time last year we only launched in December 2018 the impact as I said is massive because we're working on artificial intelligence to help students learn the way they learn and help teachers teach the way students learn it's very important work for them and I'm absolutely thrilled to be involved with it the social partners really is we're connecting everyone in this place we're bringing them together so like a parent in the start of the journey they know where to go to just go on time to dyslexic and then the whole gambler of everything to do with dyslexia and ADHD is there but we're also levelling the playing field for people who are in the North University space by using AI we are creating the environment to level that space to learn at their own pace in a safe place it's very important we're enabling people to learn the way teachers teach and the way people learn again as I said it's a safe place for people with learning difficulties to flourish but it's access 24x7 and the benefits as I said can be seen not just with parents and case workers but students, schools and everyone involved you'll be familiar with a lot of these spaces up here and this is the brilliant thing is everyone talks about superpowers superpowers for people with ADHD and dyslexia are not technically superpowers it's the environment and the circumstances that you create enabling people to flourish and that's exactly what we're doing about dyslexia we're enabling people to flourish in a safe space even though dyslexia won't that's McKenzie so it's social tech and I'm absolutely delighted that you asked us to come and talk to them social tech for good is really really important and we're at the forefront of this and it's brilliantly like ourselves that can change the way tech is delivered out there right now we have great opportunity to build technology to support and help people I put this in top technology trends because I try to influence people's thoughts so it's the way we're going it is a trend and we want to be there so what I'm asking you to do today is everyone sitting here you don't have to do it right now but 20% of your social network 20% of people on your social network possibly could have a learning difficulty so all I'm asking you to do is later on today is to download a free app and tell your network all about dyslexia because it could be a family member it could be a friend it could be a colleague it could be people on that network who are hiding because of the fear of losing a job because that's what happens when people find out you have a learning difficulty you're looked upon as different we're not, we are fantastic and we have a brilliant message to give is to change and make a difference and make a really difference when you come on to dyslexia you can verify it so that's why we're safe so you have to show your credentials with verified, true face recognition and everything else so what we're trying to do is connect a disconnected word thank you