Tris Lumley

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Back to the future: reinventing tech intentionally

Nov 20, 2024 | medium.com | Tris Lumley

Tris Lumley·Follow5 min read·--When we look at the artefacts of digital technology today — our devices, the platforms and services we use — and the ways they infuse our lives, it’s easy to feel they are fixed and immutable. That we don’t have the power to reshape them. The personal computer, the internet, the world wide web and the smartphone have brought us almost unimaginable benefits. Accessing most of the world’s information from anywhere at any time.
Philanthropy is failing young people because it doesn’t get tech - Alliance magazine

Sep 4, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Tris Lumley

Young people today are caught in the crossfire of powerful societal forces driven by technology. Infusing their daily lives, its impact is complex – internet access offers many benefits in terms of access to vital information, services and opportunities, but it also brings a dizzying array of risks and dangers. Young people spend hours each day online, and on smartphones. In the EU 97 percent of young people used the internet daily in 2023, compared to 86 percent of all people.
Is the question more important than the answer?

Mar 22, 2024 | medium.com | Tris Lumley

Do you remember the arrival of Search in the early days of the Internet? The amazing power of being able to ask a question, or drop a hint, and find loads of… well, loads of everything. Ideas, email listservs, forums, websites, and pretty soon products. Today, you ask a question, and you find an answer. As long as that answer is an existing solution. And that’s what I’ve been wondering about for many years, ever since it became clear that the point of the modern Internet is to sell you things.
Everybody owns the great ideas

Mar 7, 2024 | medium.com | Tris Lumley

I’m writing this from a hotel room in the Financial District of New York, on a damp grey morning that’s not sure if it’s the tail end of winter or the first shoots of spring emerging. I’m lucky enough to be in one of my favourite cities in the world for a global philanthropy conference — here to mix with some of the world’s most progressive philanthropists.
What is Open Philanthropy?

Sep 21, 2023 | thinknpc.org | Naomi Chapman |Tris Lumley

Earlier this year, we awarded more than £500,000 in grants to organisations tackling financial hardship and individuals experiencing financial hardship through our inaugural Open Philanthropy fund, which sought to demonstrate the benefits of inclusive and transparent grant-making.
How to turn your grantmaking approach inside out

Jul 7, 2023 | alliancemagazine.org | Tris Lumley

What if philanthropy could be more open? Open to the latest ideas, open to listening to others, and open to sharing what we’ve learnt? How much more could we achieve? Open Philanthropy is about funding in an inclusive and transparent way. Openness applies to how you design your fund, how you make your decisions, and how you evaluate your impact. Open Philanthropy is inclusive, as it brings in people with direct personal and professional experience of the issue to be addressed.
Beyond competition

May 25, 2023 | thinknpc.org | Tris Lumley

This is an edited version of a speech given by Tris Lumley at the Good Tech Fest conference in Washington DC on 3rd May 2023. I’ve grown up with technology. My childhood was imbued with sci-fi, the promise of technology and optimism about the future. I grew up to be passionate about the role of tech in social and environmental action. And yet I’ve come to believe that unless we change the very structure of philanthropy, none of our efforts with technology can succeed. Let’s start with the money.