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)