Press

This is what’s been said about Apps for Good so far…

National Coverage

March 2012 - Charity Helps Uplift the Standards of British ICT Classes, Huffington Post Universities and Education
March 2012 - Five Apps Made By School Kids With Apps for Good, Huffington Post Tech
February 2012, The 50 new radicals, The Guardian
December 2011,Puils design apps to boost ICT skills, Rory Cellan-Jones BBC News
December 2011, Students design mobile phone apps to boost ICT learning, Rory Cellan-Jones BBC News
December 2011,Facebook ‘apps university’ for web moguls, Mark Prig, London Evening Standard
October 2011 , Guardian Apps Blog , by Stuart Dredge, Guardian Technology
November 2010 – Mobile phone apps for communities by Frederika Whitehead, The Guardian
August 2010 – The power of one, Phone, a friend by Susannah Hickling, Reader’s Digest
June 2010 – Apps for Good: How can mobile apps help communities? by Jemima Kiss, media reporter, guardian.co.uk
May 2010 – Apps and Away – the young inventors by Carly Chynoweth, reporter, The Times

Technology & Education Publications

March 2012 - Educating children: A solution to the IT skills shortage? Computer Business Review
March 2012 -Q&A: Dell says children can help fill IT skills shortage in UK Computer Business Review
March 2012 - Problem-solving apps are not child’s play by Julian Blake, Tech City Insider
December 2011 -Apps for Good youngsters to showcase their Facebook development skills, Paul Sawers , The Next Web
October 2011 – Tech City: Insite London’s digital start-up hothouse, Jo Best, silicon.com
September 2011- Apps for Good partners with Facebook to teach young adults how to build social applications, Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web
August 2011 - Apps for Good turns teens into mobile app developers for a better future, by Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web

July 2011 -Apps for Good: Bottom-up technological innovation by youth, by Esha Chhabra, dowser.org
May 2011 – Students inspired by Apps for Good initiative, Switched On (Computing at Schools Newsletter)
November 2010 – The Apps That Benefit Society by Daniel Nye Griffiths, Wired Magazine
March 2010 - Inspiring Launch of Apps for Good by Peter Abrahams, Practice Leader – Accessibility and Usability, Bloor Research on IT Director

e-publications & Blogs

February 2012 – Apps for Good teaching kids more than just code, Iris Connect
January 2012 -Facebook ‘Quickie’ app spices up Apps for Good menu, by Tony Parkin, Agent 4 Change
December 2011 – ‘Most likely to change the world, one app at a time’ The UKTI Press Tour Awards Continue, by Marguerite Imbert, Venture Village
September 2011 – Willets wakes to tech gap with East End school visit, by Tony Parkin, Agent 4 Change
February 2011 – Young Peoples Apps presentation – Dragons’ Den stylie by Katie Bacon, Youth Work Online
February 2011 – Muslim girls develop ‘apps’ for smartphones by Lopa Patel, redhotcurry.com
February 2011 - Girls with App-titude face Dragons Den panel in Westminster by Joana Picq, thenextwomen.com
February 2011 – Apps, not just alms, for the poor by Paul Lamb, The Huffington Post
January 2011 – Apps for the oppressed? by Ed Cooke, blog.memrise.com
November 2010 – Apps for Good by Michele Ide-Smith, ide-smith.co.uk
November 2010 - CDI Europe – Apps for Good by Loren Treisman, Indigo Trust
November 2010 – Apps for Good in Competition for Funding by Howard Lake, Fundraising.co.uk
September 2010 – East End Girls Flood Android Apps For Good Course by John Galloway, Agent4change.net
July 2010 – Young People Helped To Create ‘Apps for Good’ by Tristan Parker, reporter, e-government bulletin
June 2010 – Apps4Good: Mobile apps for social good by Alice Cased, Cased
June 2010 – Apps for good – an “IT for good” programme with an educational edge by Chris Heilmann, editor, Wait Till I Come!
May 2010 - Stop and Stare: Apps for Good by Rory Geoghegan, Founder & CEO, Viscero
March 2010 – Digital Inclusion – “Apps for Good” by Richard Leyland, technology entrepreneur and creator of WorkSnug augmented reality iPhone app, RichardLeyland.com
March 2010 – “Apps for Good: smartphones solving social problems” by David Wilcox, Social Reporter, SocialbySocial.net
March 2010 – “Place based Alumni Groups” by Laurence John, Amadeus Capital Partners, Laurencejohn.com

Local Publications

September 2011 – Facebook and Balckberry make links with Bow school at technology launch by Nadia Sam-Daliri, East End Advertiser
February 2011 – East End Girls have their app designs commissioned by Nadia Sam-Daliri, East End Advertiser
January 2011 – Need an app? There’s a free course for that by Lawrence Conway, South London Press
January 2011 – East End students are first in the UK to work on cutting edge phone apps design by Nadia Sam-Daliri, East End Advertiser
August 2010 – InsideJob by Junior Walker, reporter, Live Magazine
May 2010 – Tulse Hill students create Android phone app to cover police stop and search strategy by Matts Watts, reporter, Streatham Guardian
March 2010 – Cross the Digital Divide with CDI by Rob Green, reporter, Lambeth Life (education page number 20)