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This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.
Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.
Tech Diplomacy Academy
IndianaOnline education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."
By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab (STSV Lab)
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USALed by Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson, the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab explores emerging scientific and technological phenomena (including genomics, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and public health) and their intersections with the fulfillment of civil, political, and social citizenship
Civic Infrastructure Collaborative
Chicago, ILCivic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.
NuLawLab
Boston, MAThe NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.
Digitally Yours Podcast
Tunisia (Tunis)Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.
Data in the ATL
Georgia (US state)PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.
In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.
We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights
Digital Rights Job Board
LondonThe Digital Rights Job Board features diverse opportunities from organizations, grassroots networks, companies and other types of entities from 130+ countries working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and social justice
All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).
United States Department of State's Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology
Washington, DCSecretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.
A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.
UNC Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
North CarolinaCISLM will grow a more equitable and sustainable future for local news, the journalists who make it and the communities that need it.
Association féministe intersectionnelle à l'origine de #TwitterAgainstWomen, notre objectif est de sensibiliser et d'informer sur les cyberviolences, les droits des victimes et les recours possibles.
Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
ICT Evidence Portal Africa
CanadaResearch ICT Solutions Ltd. is a boutique consultancy based in Canada and South Africa. Started in 2013, we have built a select list of clients who need simple but effective tools to make better decisions. RIS targets the policy and regulatory intersection between policy makers, regulators and the private sector. Our clients range from country regulators, international donor organisations to multi-national companies like Facebook.
Tech, Media & Democracy course
New York CityThrough a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy
We are intersectional feminists working to build a network of people who are interested in radical change in the tech industry, and connecting with people who would benefit from such change.
In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.
The We Be Imagining Podcast examines the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability in the COVID-19 era.
Technology and Public Purpose Fellowship at Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for practitioners at the intersection of responsible technology development to explore multidisciplinary approaches to maximizing the societal benefits of emerging technologies while minimizing the harms.
PolCommTech Research
OttawaPol Comm Tech is an academic research group at the University of Ottawa focused on exploring the intersections of politics, communication, and technology.
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VoteAmerica
San FranciscoVoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.
Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.
The intersection of the #NeverAgain movement and college admissions.
Education Policy Impact Fellowships
United States of America (the)two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.
The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.
Developing Caribbean
JamaicaDevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.
A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia
Civic Design Fellowship at the Center for Civic Design
United States of America (the)Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.
U.S. Digital Corps
Washington, DCThe U.S. Digital Corps is a two‑year government fellowship to launch your career at the intersection of technology and public service.
BuiltWorlds
Chicago, ILBuiltWorlds is the premier research-driven network operating at the intersection of the built industry and technological innovation
Wise Entertainment
Los Angeles, CAWise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.
Taskforce is a volunteer group working at the intersection of technology and politics.
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaThe Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.
Meet the Kiosks event
6 Norfolk St, Boston, MA 02124, USAJoin Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.
A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence
Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
1101 K Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20005, USAITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.
Shuttleworth Fellows
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.
PeaceTech Living Learning Community
Waterloo, ON, CanadaExploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”
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