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While the first generations of tech-for-good work took a solutionist approach to addressing existing problems with new technology, scholars and activists are driving growing awareness of the problems with technology itself. By exposing the negative consequences, intended or otherwise, of tech, these communities draw attention to issues with tech-centric approaches. Not all of the projects here adopt an ethics lens in their work, but we use it here for simplicity's sake.
Suggested reading: Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Ben Green.
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The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data.
Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?
The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.
To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.
Superbloom (formerly Simply Secure)
New York City, NY, USASuperbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.
Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG)
The Hague, NetherlandsThe Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.
IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action
The Hague, NetherlandsWhile each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.
From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.
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