Glimmers has been a real-time investigation into the relationship between technology and civil society. It took place between May and August 2020.

If you would like to join the movement to build a Community Tech Stack, or would like to learn more about the project, email hello@careful.industries with “Glimmers” or “Community Tech Stack” in the subject line.

We would like to thank everyone who took part in interviews and workshops for sharing their experiences and insights so generously, in particular representatives from Chayn, Relate, Bromley By Bow Centre, Childrens Society, Little Village and Hackney Wick Town Hall. We'd also like to thank Cassie Robinson for her input and to The National Lottery Community Fund. for their support. This will be feeding into The National Lottery Community Fund's Civil Society Strategy and their tech policy work. For more information please contact cassie.robinson@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

About the Research Team.

Gill Wildman

Gill Wildman is a strategic designer who has been working on innovation initiatives with corporates for over 20 years, and also through her agency Plot. Her work involves designing innovation labs and other forms of engagements to help them to work more effectively across the business, or exploring the affordances of new technologies. Her side project, Upstarter, is an incubation service for social and creative micro-businesses, which works in unconventional places with underserved audiences. She is Business Development Advisor for Watershed in Bristol and the South West Creative Technology Network. Her purpose is to explore more collaborative, more humane, more participatory ways of both making new products or services and doing business. Past clients include BBC, Facebook, Microsoft, Oculus, and many tiny startups in the UK, EU and the US. She can be found @plotlondon or @upstarting on Twitter.

Rachel Coldicutt

Rachel Coldicutt is an expert on the social impact of new and emerging technologies.  She was previously CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone, where she led a ground-breaking programme researching how technology is changing society, and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Prior to that, Rachel spent almost 20 years working at the cutting edge of new technology for companies including the BBC, Microsoft, BT, and Channel 4, and was a pioneer in the digital art world. Rachel is an influential voice on the UK technology scene, and acts as an advisor, board member and trustee to a number of regulators, think tanks, companies and charities. She was awarded an OBE for services to digital society in 2019, and is currently writing a book about careful innovation. She can be found @rachelcoldicutt on Twitter.