A new report outlining how community innovation helps Britain build strong foundations for innovation.

AI regulation is not just a technical issue, it’s a social one. Any future Labour government must put public interest first and move on from the corporate capture that is baked into the Conservative’s approach. This starts by empowering communities.

There is no responsible AI without community power

Promising Trouble is looking for a freelance community building specialist to facilitate the creation of a Community Tech community of practice.

Promising Trouble is looking for a freelance strategic comms and influencing specialist to support the development of the Community Tech programme of work.

We’re taking an approach called an ‘embedded’ evaluation: this basically means that rather than commission an external evaluation expert to come and observe and talk to us from time to time, we are collectively responsible for evaluating ourselves. Of course, this comes with risks (what if we just say that we’re great or terrible at everything? How can we be objective?) and doesn’t necessarily come naturally, but we decided that the benefits of being able to continuously learn and then adjust what we do or how we do it were worth it.

Community tech - technology that gives power and generates benefit for communities – is a vital part of the modern technology ecosystem.

Promising Trouble and Power to Change hosted two workshops in May, kicking off our programme looking at Community Tech and shaping a major new funding programme.