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The report explores the potential for social justice organizations in the Majority World to transition to alternative social media platforms, such as Mastodon and BlueSky, as a way to address the concerns and limitations of mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter

Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority that provides free, automated, and open TLS certificates to over 550 million websites

The Apothecary Network is a project that explores how creative technology can play a role in climate action, focusing on herbalism and community

Ambsheets is a research project exploring new types of spreadsheets that can handle multiple scenarios and possibilities at once, allowing users to easily compare different options and make better decisions

The Orbit Model is a framework for building and growing online communities

The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) is a UK organization that promotes and supports the advice sector, including through the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) certification program

semanticClimate is a project that aims to leverage semantic web technologies to improve climate data and knowledge sharing

Dollar Street is a Gapminder project that features photos and videos of 469 families across 67 countries, aiming to challenge stereotypes and provide a data-driven perspective on global living conditions

Network School is founding a new academic community on an island near Singapore, starting with a 90-day popup on September 23

OpenAI is funding research at Duke University to develop algorithms that can predict human moral judgments in scenarios involving conflicts among morally relevant features in medicine, law, and business

This report, authored by the UK government's former food policy advisor Henry Dimbleby and public health expert Dr Dolly van Tulleken, provides practical advice and insights on how today's politicians can tackle the UK's obesity crisis

OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, has undergone its first-ever rebrand, introducing a new typeface, wordmark, symbol, and color palette to unify the visual identity across its growing suite of products and services

Knowing is a platform that aims to help people make more informed decisions by providing access to reliable information and analysis on a variety of topics

Community Models is a platform that enables groups of people to collaboratively create and refine AI models based on collectively defined constitutions, with the goal of democratizing AI alignment by allowing diverse groups to shape AI behavior according to their shared values and preferences

Farmer

This article discusses websites that are designed to facilitate people-based change, such as social movements and community organizing

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D human models from a single input image

The Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF) is a £10m research centre funded by the ESRC and led by the University of Bristol, which aims to explore sociodigital futures and their impact on social and economic inequalities, as well as the climate crisis

The Surveillance Self-Defense guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides expert tips, tools, and how-to's for safer online communications and protecting against online spying

This workshop aims to celebrate Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and explore approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship

Chore Wheel is a software platform designed to simplify the management of shared living spaces, such as coliving communities, casual roommates, and cohabitating partners

In 2024, the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development user group marked its fifth year, advancing sustainability within the Wikimedia movement through active participation in meetings, events, and communications

This unconference aims to engage people, particularly those in the public sector, on ensuring that public, community, and worker voices are heard in decisions about data, digital, and AI used in the public sector

This report investigates the impact of platform design on online violence against women and girls (VAWG)

• United Kingdom (government)

The article discusses the importance of civic tech and how it can be used to improve government transparency and accountability

The article discusses the concept of holographic consensus, which aims to resolve the tension between the scalability and resilience of decentralized governance systems

alphaXiv is an open-access platform that curates and publishes high-quality preprints and working papers across various academic disciplines

The UK National Data Library is a proposed initiative by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to improve access and usability of public sector datasets for researchers and the public good

Looking For Growth #1 is an event organized by FutureLondon

A new AI Energy Score tool allows users to compare the energy efficiency and environmental impact of different AI models, helping companies and developers make more informed decisions about the sustainability of the AI tools they use

Solidarity Tech is an all-in-one CRM for organizers

The collaborative venture AURA.I. AUgmented Reality utilizing Artificial. Intelligence. aims to improve user interactions in Augmented Reality (AR) technology through the creation of an AI toolkit.

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic features

We partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.

• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Governance of AI

To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.

• coop

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Data governance

Provides guidance and tips on how every day people can enhance their personal privacy and security, minimizing their digital footprints.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Newsletters

Discover the latest and most exciting opportunities in cybersecurity! From remote positions to entry-level roles, Cybersecurity Jobs List connects you with top employers seeking talent in areas like ethical hacking, information security, and risk analysis.

Eticas audited the algorithmic system that predicts homelessness risk in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• homelessness

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

With the collaboration of Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Eticas carried out an audit of the natural language processing (NLP) system from the Social Services area from the Barcelona City Council.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Natural Language Processing

For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Data schemas and standards

"Given the global significance of the DSA, a coalition of civil society and research organizations is setting up a “Global Majority House” in Brussels to ensure the implementation of the landmark legislation, as well as other digital regulations, is equitable and inclusive." - Tech Policy Press

• Reduced inequalities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Hubs

As a national think tank, we are committed to proposing policy recommendations on emerging technologies based on the public needs of democracy and society and to offering the international community a unique Taiwanese perspective.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

By Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway for the Niskanen Center

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports
• Internal government tech capacity

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

• apps
• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing

Accountability Lab Mexico is inspiring a national movement—led by civil society, on the ground, online and through the media—to celebrate, encourage and connect honest public servants.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

The conference will bring together ACS data users and U.S. Census Bureau staff to share information about key ACS data issues and applications

• census

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Telegram allows public figures and organizations to become verified, so users can quickly identify official sources of information. To further improve transparency on Telegram, official third-party services are now able to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats.

• Telegram

• Fight disinformation
• Chat and messaging
• Trustmarks