Holiday party! Livestreams! And numerous ways to co-create a better tech future
Plus learn about our mentorship program, new affiliates program, and other ways to get involved in the Responsible Tech movement
📜 In today’s newsletter, you’ll read about our upcoming holiday party in NYC, livestream on Youth Creating Healthier Digital Spaces, video and pics from our recent mixer, call for mentors for our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program, and organization submissions for our official Responsible Tech Org List arriving in January! You’ll also read about our upcoming gathering in London on December 5 (join the waitlist) and in Washington, DC on Feb 28 (interest form).
Plus you’ll see some recent livestreams we held on careers in Responsible Tech and be able to listen to a new podcast episode about All Tech Is Human building the Responsible Tech movement and ecosystem.
💡 Our non-profit is designed to strengthen the Responsible Tech ecosystem so we can successfully tackle complex tech & society issues. Our unique approach allows us to leverage collective intelligence through a cohesive network, diversify the traditional tech pipeline, and move at the speed of tech (explainer video). The three parts of our approach are:
Multistakeholder convening & community-building: join our Slack community and attend our regular summits and mixers
Multidisciplinary education: check out our new Responsible Tech Guide along with our recent Tech & Democracy report, peruse our Knowledge Hubs, and join our mentorship program and university network
Diversifying the tech pipeline: use our Responsible Tech Job Board, join our talent pool, and participate in Tekalo
👇 Okay, onto the newsletter!
🥳We’re throwing a Holiday Party for the Responsible Tech community and you’re invited! ❄️🎄
2023 has been All Tech Is Human’s biggest year yet. This year, we grew our community to include people in more than 120 countries, hosted 23 in-person gatherings in New York City, London, and San Francisco, launched our Affiliates program, expanded our job board and talent pool, launched our Knowledge Hubs, expanded our mentorship program, and much more. This wouldn’t have been possible without all of your support! Thank you.
An additional thank you to the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Siegel Family Endowment as our key supporters who have allowed us to maintain and expand on our mission to grow the Responsible Tech movement and tackle wicked tech & society issues.
🎉 To celebrate the accomplishments of the Responsible Tech community, we’re throwing a special holiday party in NYC! In a break from our regular 2023 Responsible Tech Mixer Series, we’ll be celebrating a successful year, playing games, having giveaways, providing food and drink, and socializing! Plus, we have a few surprises up our sleeves that you won’t want to miss!
As always, registration is free but space is limited to 200 people.
Join us on Thursday, December 14, at 6:00 PM ET in New York City!
📺 Watch November’s Responsible Tech Mixer Panel:
How Can Youth and Industry Create Healthy Digital Public Spaces?
We're thrilled to release a video of the incredible panel discussion from last week's Responsible Tech Mixer focused on co-innovating healthy digital public spaces!
Thank you to everyone who attended our mixer, which is part of our monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that recently featured Kashmir Hill, Rumman Chowdhury, Nabiha Syed, Douglas Rushkoff, Meredith Broussard, Yoel Roth, Maya Wiley, and many more.
Watch the panel that featured Jackie Lho (Global Policy & Engagement for Naver Z), Zhamilya Bilyalova (founder of PrivaZy and a student researcher at Youth, Media, and Well-being Lab at Wellesley College), Joshua Lavra (Creative Lead at Hopelab), and Bzu Shiferaw (Campaign Organizer at Fairplay), and moderated by Sabrina Abdalla (Program Manager at Headstream).
“The reality is, we have no idea what youth are facing today and what their perceived reality is so really reaching out to youth, involving them in the process, getting their feedback, taking those insights and doing something with it is really critical.” Jackie Lho, Global Policy & Engagement for Naver Z said.
Presented in partnership with Project Liberty and Safe Tech, Safe Kids, the panel focused on the ways youth voices can help design, develop, and deploy technology that empowers people.
📸 Scenes from November’s Responsible Tech Mixer Panel:
🎊 Livestream: Youth Voices Creating Healthier Digital Spaces
Join our upcoming livestream featuring the author of Rethink the Internet, Trisha Prabhu, on Tuesday, November 28!
Trisha Prabhu is a 22-year-old innovator, social entrepreneur, global advocate, and inventor of ReThink™, a patented technology and an effective way to detect and stop online hate. Trisha has been a leading online safety advocate doing inspiring work. All Tech Is Human’s David Polgar has been following her work ever since seeing her present about ReThink at the Family Online Safety Institute’s Conference in 2015 when Trisha was an inspiring 15-year-old entrepreneur. She has been doing amazing work ever since.
Great ideas come from today’s youth, and our digital spaces are in desperate need of good ideas! Join our upcoming livestream and take part in this timely discussion.
👋 Today is Giving Tuesday! Would you like to help support our mission to grow the Responsible Tech movement and tackle wicked tech & society issues?
If you can, we’d be honored to have your support so we can continue to expand our network and offer free activities such as our mentorship program, job board, talent pool, university network, working groups, reports, and regular summits and mixers.
If you or someone you know is considering a large donation of over $5,000, please reach out to our President, David Polgar, directly. We will also be giving a casual presentation for funders and potential funders on December 14th in NYC at 4 pm as we look to greatly expand our team, grow and improve our activities, and make a substantial impact on a global level. We have built a powerful new approach to massively increase public participation, understand the ecosystem, and create a more conducive environment to tackling complex tech & society issues.
What’s happening in responsible tech this week? Check out how you can get involved with events, gatherings, workshops, resources, and more in Responsible Tech! With submissions by the Trust and Safety Professional Association (TSPA), Stanford Internet Observatory, NTEN, Mila, and more.
🤔 Do you know of a project that should be listed? Ping Sandra Khalil, our Head of Partnerships.
All Tech Is Human curates a list of over 500 organizations in Responsible Tech! Are there great organizations that we are missing? Let us know here, as we build our Responsible Tech Org List 2024 that will arrive in January.
👍 Rebekah Tweed, Executive Director at All Tech Is Human will be speaking at the AI Summit in New York on Dec 7th. Learn more here.
🌐 Renée Cummings, All Tech Is Human’s Senior Fellow, AI, Data, and Public Policy, is speaking in Doha Nov 29-30. Learn more here.
👋 Founder & President David Polgar will be speaking in NYC at Civic Hall on Nov 30th on AI: Opportunities & Obstacles. Learn more here.
David was also the first guest for Activists Of Tech: The Responsible Tech Podcast, for a podcast episode that got released today. David chatted with host Mélissa M'Raidi-Kechichian about spending the last decade helping build the Responsible Tech movement. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
📺 All Tech Is Human Executive Director Rebekah Tweed recently chatted with Merve Hickok, Center for AI & Digital Policy President and Research Director, to discuss the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s draft implementation guidance. The guidance will govern how the U.S. government can procure and use AI. Watch here.
🎙️ Rebekah Tweed took the stage at the 2023 Tech Ethics Symposium at Duquesne University! Click here to watch Rebekah’s panel and Click here to read coverage in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about All Tech Is Human’s unique approach to tackling complex tech & society issues.
👍 Are you interested in being a mentor in our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program? We are currently accepting applications! Program to start March 1, 2024.
🗣️ We’ll be having a large gathering for 400 people in London on December 5th, along with two panel conversations (tech policy, reducing online harms). Sign-ups reached capacity, but we currently have a waitlist.
🎉 In our last newsletter, we announced our inaugural All Tech Is Human affiliates! Check out this incredible mix of 43 individuals from 11 countries.
📺 We helped organize the book launch for Dr. Joy Buolamwini on Oct 31st in NYC at Ford Foundation. Dr. Joy was in conversation with WAYE Founder Sinead Bovell. Watch now!
📅We’ll be holding a large gathering in DC on Feb 28, 2024! We are still planning the panel topics and currently have an interest form to be involved.
🌎 Looking for a role in Responsible Tech? All Tech Is Human Program Manager Sarah Welsh hosted a discussion with Jiahao Chen, Laura Walker McDonald, Numa Dhamani, and James Gresham about key strategies and insights to get where you want to go. Click here to view it!
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