Projects - Digital literacy

Digital Woman Uganda

Uganda

Digital Woman Uganda provides digital literacy skills to women and girls while advocating for gender-sensitive policies and digital rights.

The Digital Wellbeing Initiative in Sri Lanka is a project that collaborates with youth, technology professionals, artists, and policymakers to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the digital landscape with skill and intellect and find a balance between the promise of technology and their personal well-being.

Digital Community Stewards Online Course

Brussels, Belgium

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

100 Days Of AI

Learn AI skills in 100 days with daily bitesized lessons.

Academy of the Near Future

Dublin, Ireland

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

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Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

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Portugal Digital

Lisbon

Acelerar Portugal através da capacitação digital das pessoas, da transformação digital das empresas e da digitalização do Estado.

JAAKLAC iniciativa podcast

Finland (Suomi)

JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.

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Skills Wiki for New Government Hires

Aspen Institute, North 3rd Street, Aspen, CO, USA

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy

Georgia (US state)

Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.

Future of Privacy Forum Training Program

Washington, DC

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.

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Практика

Moscow

Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач

IPleak.net

Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them

Own Your Data Foundation

Wyoming

We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.

Data Activism program for Cambridge Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program

Cambridge, MA

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

Congressional App Challenge

740 15th St. NW Washington D.C.

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

City of Boston Digital Equity Assessment

1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA, United States

This study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities

The Turing Way: Community-led guides for data science and open research

The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UK

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.

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SocialTIC

South America

SocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital

No Minor Futures

No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.

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TechImpact Technology Learning Center (formerly NPower)

United States of America (the)

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

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Data Playbook V1

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

Mozilla Web Literacy Framework

Mountain View, CA, USA

In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Siberkreasi

Jakarta

SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.

Facebook Digital Literacy Library

United States of America (the)

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)

Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano Nigeria

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.

Access to Information Community of Practice

The Influence Industry Project

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.

A Voter's Guide: 7 tips to detox your data

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Part of the Data Detox Kit

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Center on Rural Innovation

Vermont

As strategists, advocates, connectors, and champions, we collaborate with members of our Rural Innovation Network to launch initiatives and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and tech job creation in the places they call home.

Digital literacy

The Deepfake Lab

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

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All In: Data for Community Health

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

Apolitical Microcourses

London

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

A guide to the news company's data usage

A People’s Guide to AI

4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

Ada Developers Academy

Seattle, WA, United States of America

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Access Guide

Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).

#whatthetech

Boston, MA

A video series promoting public literacy of tech in public spaces

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Data Collaboratives for Local Impact

Washington, DC

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

Decent work and economic growth

BEL'S AI Initiative

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

AI literacy effort for government and other sectors in Cameroon

Abre Alcaldías

Latin America

Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America

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JAAKLAC initiative

Finland (Suomi)

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

Automating NYC

New York City

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

Tablet Comunitario

Mozambique (Mocambique)

Empowering rural communities with digital education

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Soft robotic

The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).