In this third and final episode on digitalisation, host Toby Gazeley from ⁠Euclid Network⁠ is joined by Gustavs Upmanis from Visas Iespējas to find out how digital tools are being put to work in social enterprises. Together they discuss Gustavs work on creating 'a dating app for employment'. Through MatchWork, Gustavs and the team aim to remove barriers experienced by both employers and aspiring employees in the job hunt, perhaps making it a more enjoyable and easy experience.

Beyond MatchWork, they discuss the impact digital tools have had on social enterprises. This ranges from the impact models that can be built on digital tools all the way to the fundamental change digitalisation has had on marketing, sales and hiring. The opportunity presented by digital tools may be large but so too are challenges such as affordability, access to public support programmes and the initial set up costs. Gustavs and Toby discuss some of their favourite tools they use in their own work including Copilot for Gustavs to help with coding and Todoist for Toby to help him not lose his paper to-do-list.

Gustavs was quick to recommend three of this favourite podcasts. These were: People I (Mostly) Admire; Re:Thinking; and The Anthropocene Reviewed. All interesting listens and slightly more academic than some of Toby's recommendations.

A special thanks to Jan Kiszowara at Euclid Network who produces this podcast and the European Commission for making this all possible.

Our theme music is 'another twelve' by Mikel Patrick Avery at Music for Podcasts.