Civic Tech Surgery #5

Topic: Learning from climate action – how can civic tech drive impactful societal change?

Date: 14 July 2022

This discussion centred around the opportunities and challenges in using civic tech to encourage people to change and coordinate their behaviour in ways that can cause significant changes in society, specifically through the lens of climate action.

Panel members were Laura Brown, Chief Marketing Officer of ISeeChange, Jacopo Ottaviani, Chief Data Officer at Code for Africa and Laurence Watson, Head of Technology at Subak.

Here are resources from the Surgery:

• Minutes
• A transcript automatically generated by Otter.ai (ie, please be aware there may be errors in spellings etc)
• A blog post summarising the challenges discussed and some possible solutions Action Lab #5 could take forward
• The Padlet Board where attendees shared their thoughts on the questions raised during the discussion, before, during and after the Surgery (please feel free to add your thoughts to this too!)
• The full recording of the Surgery

Action Lab #5: taking ideas forward

Following this Surgery, we convened an Action Lab (aka working group), who worked together to commission a piece of work to help solve common challenges raised by Surgery attendees.

Find out more about what Action Lab #5 commissioned on the Lab’s web page.