We are a natural home for tech pioneers like these, who have big ideas and big ambitions to make the world a better place. Ventures will be given access to resources to help them scale solutions in the areas of AI for accessibility and AI for environmental sustainability. To continue this momentum, Microsoft are also working in partnership with Social Tech Trust to create an immersive accelerator programme, focused on ‘AI for Good’. The aim is to raise up to 30 million pounds for this investment fund, to help ventures focused in three key areas of social transformation: health, wealth, and communities. This fund will provide ventures with the access to capital that they need at the right time. Successful participants will be rewarded with a cash incentive and ongoing business support.Īnd we have also backed the UK’s leading dedicated supporter in social tech ventures - the Social Tech Trust - to set up a new investment fund. In January I announced that the UK Government will invest a million pounds to drive social tech innovation in civil society, to help develop solutions to tackle loneliness and bring communities together.
Up to a fifth of all UK adults feel lonely most or all of the time. In the UK, as in many countries, we see loneliness as a major public health challenge. Our technology and civil society sectors are, at their core, all about shaking up established conventions and solving problems.Īnd there are so many opportunities for them to join forces and harness the power of digital to help us solve our major social issues. Station F, the world’s biggest startup campus, is supporting so many worthwhile social technology ventures here in Paris.Īnd in the UK, a recent report from Tech Nation confirmed that the UK is a global centre for Tech for Good, with social tech companies valued at 2.3 billion pounds last year.Īnd as part of the British delegation here in Paris this week, we have a number of tech for good firms, who are tackling a range of issues, from financial inclusion to sanitation. We have seen real progress here both sides of the Channel. We will judge it on the impact that it has had on humanity as a whole and whether it has made us safer, happier and more fulfilled.Īnd Governments have an important role, supporting the mission driven organisations who want to use technology for the greater good. Tech for goodīecause when we look back on this remarkable era of technological change, we won’t just judge it by the numbers on balance sheets. The work we are doing in the UK, and with our friends and partners across the world, to make technology work for the common good. That is what I wanted to talk about today. We are still committed to being open, outward looking and optimistic about the world beyond us and opportunities provided by new technologies.Īnd we still care about the positive development of these technologies, and making them work for the benefit of humankind.
I know that many of the headlines emerging from the UK recently have been about Brexit.īut although we have seen a passionate debate in the UK about how we leave the EU, this does not mean we are turning inwards.
I am delighted that this will be coming to the UK, so new audiences can see it first hand.Īnd as President Macron said last year we are now creating a new tapestry, based on close co-operation around a range of issues, including trade, security and of course technology. C’est un vrai plaisir d’être ici à Paris, représentant le gouvernement du Royaume-Uni.ĭivided by just 33 kilometers of water, there is so much that unites the nations of France and the United Kingdom.įrom Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, to Dame Vivienne Westwood’s regular shows in Paris, our national stories have intertwined in so many ways.Īnd there are few better examples of this than the historic and awe-inspiring Bayeux Tapestry.
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