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Cultural Safety Audit Tools
AustraliaThe Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals. The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Organisations is designed to assess an organisation’s commitment to a level of development in embedding cultural safety.
MariaLab
BrazilA MariaLab é uma associação sem fins lucrativos, sem vínculo político-partidário e com empresas do setor privado, que atua na intersecção entre política, gênero e suas tecnologias.
Blacks in Civic Tech
United States of America (the)Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.
Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding. Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"
HetzJaeger
GermanyA campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Walking Tour
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
Before The Bulldozers
Anacostia, DCIt’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
NYU Public Safety Lab
New York UniversityUsing data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes
This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.
Camino
Oakland, CaliforniaCamino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.
2020protests.com
Michigan, USAAn aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US
Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism | Putting Local Data to Work
United States of America (the)In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Oakland, CaliforniaBuild, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.
Giving Gap
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaGiving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about.
LaunchGood
Detroit, MICrowdfunding Incredible Muslims
The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.
2022 is going to be another record-breaking year for Black women candidates, and Higher Heights for America has collected the information for every Black woman running for office at the state and federal levels. These Black women are ready to run, win, and lead.
Racism and Technology Center
AmsterdamThe Racism and Technology Center uses technology as a mirror to reflect and make visible existing racist practices in Dutch society.
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.
University of Arizona pilot project to test immersive tools' effect on racial empathy
ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide. ADL Center on Extremism experts developed this unique visualization using data points from information sources including news and media reports, government documents (including police reports), victim reports, extremist-related sources, Center on Extremism investigations and more. ADL H.E.A.T. Map is updated monthly. A compilation of the most recent cases of anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment, and assault may be viewed at the ADL Tracker of Antisemitic Incidents.
Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.
Identifying discrepancies in prison sentencing based on race
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.
An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place
A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice
Microsoft CSR Justice Reform Initiative
Redmond, WAThe Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.
Ukraine Evac Support
TorontoCivic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine
This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.
The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.
Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.
Data for Black Lives
United States of America (the)Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.
Data for Black Lives conference
MIT Media LabDecember 11-13 2020
Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime
A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum
The Black to the Future Public Policy Institute is a policy advocacy and leadership training fellowship that provides the tools needed to transform Black communities into constituencies that wield independent, Black political power at the municipal, state, and federal level.
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UKMeasuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.
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