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Dr Kim Foale

Dr Kim Foale

Kim (she/they) is an experienced practitioner working/living/surviving/thriving at the intersection of tech, research, community, and activism.

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

Let's retire the endless magic bullets and solve problems together instead. Kim lays out a methodology for how we can start building technology by thinking about people, not products: and guess what, it's rooted in ✨ existing community networks ✨.

A taller man and a shorter man both dressed like robots in cardboard boxes. Controls read "shenanigans", "pride", "sillyness".

Vote Out Covid: community spotlight

GFSC's community Discord supports people using technology to futher their social campaigns. Kim caught up with Dave to chat about his Vote Out Covid campaign's goals for the 1st May UK elections, their Django webapp, and building Corsi-Rosenthal boxes.

The words March Roundup next to a multipack of scampi fries stuck to an unappealing-looking wall.

GFSC's March Roundup

Ursula Le Guin famously said its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. So lets start imagining it: starting with friendship.

A colourfu musical instruments surround a set of cards with numbers 1-5 saying "forest, snooker, wine, beige, the pyramids".

How GFSC got to here (Part 1)

Behold, a mythic lore drop from studio founder Kim. Read her never-before-told-story (at least, outside the pub) about the various elements floating in the existential stockpot that slow-cooked GFSC's primordial soup.

5 happy humans walking on a path in the sunshine and smiling at the camera

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!

GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism.