Seeking Abundance: Life Affirming Community Tech Takeaways
The fifth in a blog series on community tech, Global Majority communities and how we might seek abundance together, including key takeaways from the series and a framework to help you get involved in the conversation.
Seeking Abundance: What Does Being Resourced Look and Feel Like?
The fourth in a blog series on community tech, Global Majority communities and how we might seek abundance together, including what it means to be genuinely resourced within the sector.
Seeking Abundance: Exploring Realities and Options for Community Tech
The third in a blog series exploring Life Affirming Community Tech. In this post we look at what’s inspiring us as well as what’s holding us back in the sector.
Seeking Abundance: Collective Dreams for Community Tech
The second in a blog series exploring topics that arose from a roundtable discussion on community tech, Global Majority communities and how we might seek abundance together. This post talks about collective dreaming.
Seeking Abundance: What Is Life Affirming Community Tech
The first in a new blog series. Insights from a roundtable discussion exploring how community tech can dismantle oppressions and support us all to thrive - and how you can get involved.
2023 Roundup: Growing a Community of Practice
A look back at what we’ve been up to with our growing community of practice in 2023.
Community Tech Community of Practice – Reflections on our Autumn Gathering
We brought together over 70 people to celebrate the spirit of collaboration and curiosity at our Community Tech Community of Practice Autumn Gathering.
Evaluation is like GPS
We caught up with Margarida Pimenta at Impact in Focus to chat about all things evaluation. Read on for insights and resources.
Community Tech Discovery Fund – our reflections
We’re thrilled that 20 community businesses have been successful in applying to Power To Change’s Community Tech Discovery Fund programme. Already, they are creating positive change in many places and spaces, and their aspirations for community tech will mean they can amplify their impact even further.
Choosing a digital platform for Community Tech
This week we launched the new online space for the Community Tech Community of Practice.
Calling fellow wise elephants!
5 questions to consider before you start developing community technology.
Community Tech Monthly Meet Ups: Care, Connection, Codesign
What we’ve been learning from our first two community tech community of practice monthly meet ups.
Roundtable reflections: place-based community innovation
We brought together a roundtable with members of our community of practice to explore and understand what place-based community innovation is, and how we can best support it.
Embedded evaluation - how are we doing?
At the beginning of 2023 we committed to an ‘embedded evaluation’ of how the core Community Tech team - Promising Trouble, Power to Change and our freelance comms lead Jen - are working together. What’s going well, what do we want to change, how could we make improvements to our processes to support the programme better?
New funding opportunity: Community Tech Discovery Fund
Applications for the Community Tech Discovery Fund open on Thursday 1st June!
Community Tech events this May – reserve your spot!
Join Promising Trouble and Power To Change for our exciting Community Tech events programme this May!
Three questions we’re asking about nurturing an inclusive community of practice
When we say inclusive - what do we mean? Roseanna Dias, our new Inclusion Research Producer, shares some thinking around the community of practice, launching in May.
Nurturing a community of practice — reflections and our way ahead
We’re coming to the end of an exciting period working with Kate Swade and Lynne Davis, who have been helping us scope out how we could support the growing community of practice around community tech.
Spring Budget 2023
Following yesterday’s Spring Budget, Rachel Coldicutt OBE makes the case for a different innovation story, with place-based creators of community tech working to boost local economies and strengthen our social fabric.
Exploring the intersections of Community Tech with other fields of work and practice
To help us along our journey, Cassie Robinson is hosting a series of events to explore how Community Tech can support other fields of work and practice that share these same place-based themes and values.