For everyone who wants technologies to work for people and planet.
We are a solidarity network that:
- Strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, so more people can make, advocate for and stand-up for the technology they believe in and want.
- Demystifies tech, by providing high-quality, accessible information about how technology works and its social, economic, and environmental impacts.
- Makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful by sharing positive visions, skills, knowledge, resources and networks to inspire and support advocacy, ethical challenge, and share best practice.
The Society for Hopeful Technologists has grown rapidly through word-of-mouth in 2025. Starting as [an idea in a newsletter](https://buttondown.com/justenoughinternet/archive/a-u…
For everyone who wants technologies to work for people and planet.
We are a solidarity network that:
- Strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, so more people can make, advocate for and stand-up for the technology they believe in and want.
- Demystifies tech, by providing high-quality, accessible information about how technology works and its social, economic, and environmental impacts.
- Makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful by sharing positive visions, skills, knowledge, resources and networks to inspire and support advocacy, ethical challenge, and share best practice.
The Society for Hopeful Technologists has grown rapidly through word-of-mouth in 2025. Starting as an idea in a newsletter, we are now a community of more than 800 people and our vision has been shaped by the input of more than 100 Hopeful Technologists!
Why Hopeful?
As Rebecca Solnit says in Hope in the Dark, “Hope is an ax you break down the door with in an emergency”.
Findings from our 2025 survey of 522 UK tech workers show 98% don’t feel represented by leading industry voices, but only 15% are comfortable raising concerns.
Many tech workers need support and confidence to craft a more socially and environmentally positive future for technology – but it can be very easy to get stuck listing what’s wrong.
The Society for Hopeful Technologists exists to lift up and shape trustworthy and socially beneficial approaches to technology, and to amplify the hope and ambition of everyone who knows a better way is possible.
Join us!
Join the organisers’ signal group
Request an invite by dropping us an email at: society@hopeful.technology
Membership - coming soon!
Charter
As Hopeful Technologists, we believe technology and innovation should support a sustainable, joyful world for everyone.
We:
- work to realise shared visions for a hopeful future;
- demystify technologies and share knowledge and expertise;
- recognise harmful technologies and business models undermine our shared future;
- expose the environmental and social problems technologies create or exacerbate;
We support:
- technology that is appropriate, affordable and accessible for all;
- a more sustainable, regenerative economy;
- realistic approaches to new technology development and adoption;
- an ambitious, progressive commitment to address shared challenges.
We are:
- a solidarity network;
- open, transparent, and inclusive in our processes; and
- independent of party politics and commercial interests.
What’s next?
The Society for Hopeful Technologists has been growing slowly throughout 2025, and will launch for membership in 2026.
In November 2025, more than 100 Hopeful Technologists came together to shape our next steps; a volunteer organising committee is working to bring those to life and we’ll share detailed plans in early 2026.
Who we are
The Society for Hopeful Technologists was founded by Rachel Coldicutt, and is being built by a voluntary organising group including:
Inés Alvarez-Gortari, Dr Elinor Carmi, James Cox, Amanda Dahl, Anthony Dhanendran, Frances Liddell, Maria Jose Lira, Anand Madhvani, Ella Maule, Catherine Mayer, Tessa Quinn, Paola Roccuzzo, Gitika Saksena, Rick Smith, Paul Waller.
Join us!
Join the organisers’ signal group
Request an invite by dropping us an email at: society@hopeful.technology