Hopeful Tech: Community Event - Open House 3

​Our first open house to help shape the UK's Society for Hopeful Technologists. Come along and discuss the draft charter, develop the theory of change and help work out what happens next.

​Society for Hopeful Technologists Draft Charter

• ​We are technology professionals who believe technology and innovation can make the world a better, more joyful place for everyone

• ​We see through the hype and the bluster

• ​We expose the inequalities that technologies create or exacerbate

• ​We reject the technologies and business models that concentrate power and wealth 

​As Hopeful Technologists, we:

• ​Work to make technology affordable and accessible for all who want it 

• ​Champion maintenance and sustainable technology development

• ​Recommend realistic and achievable approaches to technology development and adoption that put people and planet first

​We offer a progressive vision for technology – focused on its socially and environmentally positive uses

​We will strive to be: 

• ​A solidarity network 

• ​Just, equitable and inclusive 

• ​Open, transparent and independent of party politics