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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 September 2024
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Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
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The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
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In the third year Data, Tech & Black Communities CIC (‘DTBC’) has: 1. Focused on delivering a funded project researching the impact of EdTech on Black/Black heritage children based in Birmingham. Having set up project management systems and recruited freelancers to support activities in the previous year, this year we worked with ten members of the public to support them to be community researchers to investigate the use of EdTech across 90 schools located in the most deprived wards in Birmingham. The community researchers examined the school websites for details of the EdTech applications and platforms mentioned, reviewed schools’ equality impact assessments and conducted interviews, a focus group and questionnaires which gathered insights from 99 individuals. DTBC worked with community researchers and freelancers to analyse and tell stories from the data, which is being developed into a report due to be published in spring 2025. 2. As part of the project, we held two community events reaching 69 primarily Black/Black heritage adults. With the engagement of freelance community organisers who worked to raise understanding of Edtech with various Black/Black heritage people across schools, mosques, community events, this project engaged around 200 people. 3. Across the project, we produced four blogs and continued to engage in external events and calls to actions which aligned with our organisational objectives. Key events included presenting at AI & Society Forum, a gathering of 150 civil society organisations coming together to call for better AI practice; being invited to attend a private meeting of civil society organisations and machine learning specialists to share our work and strategise; and an invitation to discuss our EdTech work within a focused workshop as part of the National Education Union annual conference. 4. One impact of the project was that nine out of ten community researchers completed the project with us. DTBC supported them to develop or build upon skills everyone has – that is to ask questions, seek out answers, share findings – within a social research methods framework that produced rigorous results. All community researchers who completed the project expressed high satisfaction with the interaction and support provided by DTBC and the completed training and work. Another impact of the project is that attendees of our hosted events, which were primarily people of Black/Black heritage, provided positive feedback about the information we delivered and have requested us to develop a toolkit to support parents/guardians on how best to discover and protect the use of data collected about their children. This will benefit not just Black/Black heritage parents/ guardians, but all parents/ guardians based in England and Wales.
The CIC stakeholders are people of Black and mixed Black heritage who reside in the UK. Our aim is to regularly consult with all stakeholders to shape the design and delivery of our work. This year, by conducting community events and outreach with the support of freelance community organisers, we provided regular opportunities to proactively receive feedback through conversation and feedback forms to learn how we are doing and what we can improve upon.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
21 March 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Tracey Gyateng
Status: Director