SDP 19: Helen Milner on the Good Things Foundation story and being one of Sheffield’s best kept tech secrets

Episode 19 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast is ready for you and features an interview with Helen Milner, chief executive of Good Things Foundation.

We start be asking Helen to share a potted history of the organisation, including its recent expansion into Australia and Kenya. She then talk about tackling digital inclusion and the challenges it brings, before moving on to Sheffield’s local digital skills partnership.

We also cover the problem of finding qualified and willing developers in Sheffield, something Helen has written about previously. It’s part of a conversation we all really enjoyed and I’m sure you will too! Big thank you to Helen for giving up her time to speak to us.

As always, in part two of the show (from around 40 minutes) we move on to cover some of the recent news and info from the city’s digital sector, including:

Rowan Hall’s research and survey on Sheffield’s emerging co-working scene
Mel and Chris reporting back from a DCMS Brexit meeting
the second Sheffield Women in Tech event
a visit and tour around Kollider for Mel and Chris
an appeal for employer engagement around the College’s software developer apprenticeship.

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Notes and links

Every episode comes with a list of links to all of the various people, companies and topics that we reference. Here is that list for episode 19.

Helen Milner (@helenmilner) | Twitter
Our vision is a world where everyone benefits from digital | Good Things Foundation
What we do | Good Things Foundation
Work for us | Good Things Foundation
Love Good Things, Love Sheffield, Love Digital | Helen Milner
kolliderprojects (@Kollider_Sheff) | Twitter
What do co-workers in Sheffield value? – Sheffield Digital
Rowan’s co-working space survey
ShfWIT (@ShfWit) | Twitter
Ding! Ding! ShfWIT - the results are in Tickets, Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 17:30 | Eventbrite
Sheffield Digital events calendar
Meet our members | Sheffield Digital
Become a member of Sheffield Digital

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Thank you for the music

Thanks again to Alex Mclean – aka Yaxu – for the show’s intro music, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.