This month’s film is 2015’s historical fiction about the epochal struggle for votes for women, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette. Interestingly, it was apparently the first film to be filmed in the Houses of Parliament. Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of perhaps the most famous real-life suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, has said: What I love about the …
Wired have run an article on the civic tech innovations coming out of the Tech for UK movement, including our own Compare the Brexit platform.
This month’s film was made in the same year as our last (2014) and is set in the same year as our previous (1984), but strikes a remarkably different note to both. The film has won numerous awards and will leave you feeling positive. Watch it with us! We view films and …
How can we design technology and shape culture in such ways that they support and reinforce peoples’ intuitive ethics and empathy? The next discussion in the Future Fridays series takes place near Cambridge station from 6-8pm on the 22nd February 2019. Please contact us with some information about you and your …
How is technology changing the art of persuasion? Whether in the field of political campaigning or simply the wider consumerist culture, technology has a large role in supporting the practise of persuasion. What does this mean for democracy and society? The next discussion in the Future Fridays series takes place near …
Following on from the fantastic The Lives of Others last month, we continue our mini-season on surveillance and its effects on human beings with Laura Poitras’ modern classic fly on the wall documentary on Edward Snowden, Citizenfour. No amount of familiarity with whistleblower Edward Snowden and his shocking revelations of the U.S. …
What do a Deal, a No-Deal, and No Brexit look like? We’ve put together a simple website to illustrate the main points of each. ComparetheBrexit.com has been produced with the following team and partners: Producer: Becky | Developer: James Freedman | Partners: Microclimate, Tech for UK | Client: Best for Britain
We’ve just learned that the critically acclaimed documentary about the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG, is showing at Cambridge PictureHouse this Thursday 13th December. Meet others from Freedom Film Club in the bar beforehand (from 17:45-18:10), and stay for the panel discussion, and possibly further discussion afterwards. Jason …
The Freedom Film Club has its second event of a series exploring human freedom in the modern world on Friday 7th December 2018. The club meets remotely on the hashtag #FreedomFilmClub, and as an informal gathering in Cambridge, UK. This month’s chosen film is The Lives of Others, von Donnersmarck’s 2006 classic that …
A civil society based in Cambridge, a community of practitioners and thinkers working around the intersections of technology, ethics, and society. After a successful launch at which we discussed Automation, the Future of Work, and UBI, our second event will have a loose theme of Public Service Internet, and will take place …
