NEW Responsible Tech Knowledge Hub, livestreams, in-person gatherings, and more!
NEW Responsible Tech Knowledge Hub, livestreams, in-person gatherings, and more!
Plus speakers announced for our upcoming summits in NYC + London, videos from our last gathering, upcoming Responsible Tech Career Night, and joining the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web
🧠We’re thrilled to launch our Responsible Tech Knowledge Hub as we curate our significant amount of resources
Here at All Tech Is Human, we semi-jokingly like to tell people we are drowning in intelligence. Well, with the new release of our Responsible Tech Knowledge Hub we will all now be able to swim in a sea of resources around public interest technology, Trust & Safety, Responsible AI, Tech Policy, and Youth/Tech/Wellbeing.
How do we gather our resources? Our non-profit is designed to concurrently learn from the community and inform the community; we do this through a highly participatory structure filled with numerous activities that promote knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and understanding of a global, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary network. We are learning from our Slack group that is now approaching 5k members from 60 countries, our mentorship program, Responsible Tech University Network, working groups, summits, livestreams, and regular mixers. In other words, we are plugged into a tremendous range of individuals and organizations that are regularly sharing resources and insight with us. You can find all of our projects here.
🤯We have so many upcoming happenings that we’re going to put them in chronological order so your head doesn’t explode.
📅On Wed, Feb 15th at 1pm ET you can join our livestream about working in Responsible Tech!
How do you build a career around tackling wicked tech & society issues? If you are curious about growing your career in Responsible Tech and wondering who is hiring, this livestream is for you! We’ll be joined by special guest Chanel Cornett (Counsel, Trust & Safety at Zoom), along with guests from CivicActions, Credo AI, Exygy, and New_ Public stopping by to let us know about some roles they have open.
Here is an earlier panel conversation we did with Chanel Cornett at the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC (Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing event). Also featuring Medha Tare (Senior Researcher at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop) and Arielle Geismar (youth mental health advocate)
🎉On Feb 23rd we’re launching our monthly livestream series with New_ Public
How can AI be a tool to reimagine creative practices? What are ways AI can be harnessed as a tool for both harm and empowerment? This new livestream series is kicking off on Thurs, Feb 23rd from 5 to 6:30 pm ET, we hope you can join us for our first Digital Playground, where we will be joined by artist, technologist, and researcher Ari Melenciano.
Digital playground is a monthly virtual program series hosted by New_ Public and All Tech Is Human, in the spirit of discovery, experimentation, and creation of healthier digital public spaces. The Digital Playground Series is part of New_ Public and All Tech Is Human’s year-long partnership as part of Community by Design, with the support of the Unfinished Network, to identify, define and map thriving healthy digital public spaces focused on building pluralistic, inclusive, open online spaces, and prioritizing the needs of their communities.
👋We are collaborating with Civics Unplugged to hold an in-person roundtable on Creating a Youth-Led Responsible Tech Movement + virtual option!
Feb 23rd is a double-header with our org; if you are a youth (18-25) or involved with youth, we would love to have you involved with our first roundtable in NYC on this topic (virtual option available). This is being done in collaboration with Civics Unplugged and being led by Sandra Khalil and Selene Hernandez.
📜Did you think we just did events? Nah. We’ve been busying finishing up our Tech & Democracy report that arrives Feb 28th.
In our next newsletter, we’ll be sharing our Tech & Democracy report that features 40 profile interviews and resources from over 100 organizations. What to do while you patiently wait by your inbox for this to arrive?! Why not check out some of our previous reports, such as:
Responsible Tech Guide (our flagship resource that gets an overhaul every September)
HX Report: Aligning Our Tech Future with Our Human Experience
And if you are curious about our process of strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem so we can tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned the public interest, you can read about our mission & accomplishments.
🥳We are getting ready for our Tech & Democracy summit on March 1st in NYC!
Check out the bios of all of our incredible speakers who will be on stage at our upcoming Tech & Democracy: A Better Tech Future Summit being held at the Consulate General of Canada in New York. We have assembled 120 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia to learn from each other, share knowledge, and help carve a better path forward. All talks are being recorded and you can freely watch the livestream.
🔥Our March 15th mixer + book launch reached capacity right after our last newsletter; you can join the waitlist + we’ll have video.
This gathering is generating a lot of buzz, which is why our registrations reached capacity far in advance of March 15th. We’ll have a video from our conversation with Meredith Broussard to share out later on, who will be discussing her upcoming book More Than a Glitch. Our upcoming Responsible Tech Mixer + Book Launch is being done in collaboration with our friends at Project Liberty.
To help meet the growing demand, we are launching TWO additional in-person events today and we will be regularly holding in-person gatherings in NYC, along with occasional gatherings in DC, SF, and London + we are exploring Europe. Have a different location in mind? Please reach out our way.
💡Do you have an idea for a gathering? An impactful collaboration? We want to hear your ideas!
For our two upcoming in-person gatherings in NYC (below), one is designed for those new to Responsible Tech (April 26), while the other is designed for those with experience looking to grow in their career (May 31).
👋For our very first Responsible Tech Career Night, we are mixing together those interested in new roles with orgs and companies hiring!
Consider it a more-fun platonic speed dating. But instead of being met with bad jokes and bad breath, you with mingle with good people tackling hard problems. We are currently seeking interest from employers and those interested in potential new roles in Responsible Tech.
😎Cool happenings in Responsible Tech
All Tech Is Human is proud to announce that we have joined Atlantic Council’s Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web, which is being run by their Digital Forensic Research Lab, as an Expert Contributing Org. Other orgs include the Integrity Institute, Color of Change, Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, TSPA, Global Network Initiative and more.
We also have some videos to share from our recent event at Consumer Reports, Reducing Online Gender-Based Violence:
🙏A big thank you to Theodora Skeadas for organizing a casual meet-up for members of All Tech Is Human’s Slack community in Cambridge, MA recently!
“Young Voices and Microsoft are partnering to host a panel discussion on ChatGPT, consciousness, and humanity on Thursday, February 16 at 5:30pm in Washington, D.C. Featuring Reason Magazine’s Liz Wolfe, Catholic University of America and Lincoln Network’s Jon Askonas, Center for Growth and Opportunity’s Will Rinehart, and Mercatus Center’s Matt Mittelsteadt (and moderated by Lincoln Network’s Luke Hogg), this spicy panel will feature spirited argument and persuasion around questions of progress, innovation, and morality in AI.This free event is in-person-only. Please register by clicking here.” -Max Bodach
“Hi everyone! We’ll be hosting our monthly Seattle All Tech Is Human community meetup/happy hour this Thursday, Feb. 16 @ 6:30pm. We’ll be meeting at Fremont Brewing to discuss responsible tech, what we can do to grow the community in Seattle, and generally just getting to know one another. All are welcome! If you have any questions, feel free to ping either myself or @Ardith Daly on Slack. Until then, have a great week and looking forward to seeing those of you who can attend on Thursday!” -Xavier Hayeck
“We’d like to invite the All Tech Is Human community to join us at RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. RightsCon Costa Rica will be our first hybrid event and our most interconnected experience yet, bringing together a global community online and in-person in San José to shape the agenda for our digital future. RightsCon Costa Rica will be taking place June 5 - 8, 2023 and will host more than 400 interactive and creative sessions designed to foster moments of connection and collaboration. Early bird tickets are currently available until March 13th. As always, we aim to have an inclusive policy around ticket pricing, and we offer both free and discounted tickets for online and in-person registrations. Additionally, we offer group discount rates, which can be requested by emailing rightscon@accessnow.org.”-Daphne Ugarte
“The power of technology to facilitate harms including misinformation, extremism, surveillance, harassment, and violence is a growing societal concern, and the focus of Trust and Safety (T&S) work. Trust & Safety: A Snapshot of the Field 2022 looks at what the work is and what it may become.Spurred by a wave of job openings in Summer and Fall 2021, I analyzed 112 job postings and compared them with six interviews with T&S professionals. Looking at the field itself and the degree of alignment between companies’ and workers’ perspectives on T&S work is crucial, especially in light of the subsequent layoffs. Report findings include the functions of T&S work, the skills and mindsets needed to do the work, and trends in the field.
I hope that workers can use findings to articulate areas for change and improvement within their companies and their field, and that companies will use the recommendations to improve T&S work, ultimately better protecting users and society as a whole. You can read the full report or highlights from it.A new round of interviews is underway. Trust & Safety professionals are invited to participate in a 1-hour video interview through Arizona State University. Participation is voluntary and uncompensated, and you must be 18 or older. Contact me at tshulruf@asu.edu for more information.” -Toby Shulruff
For our friends in the UK…
“Hey all! I’m delighted to invite you to our first Good Web Network event of 2023! On February 21st we will be joined by Paul Scully, Minister for Tech & the Digital Economy. Join us at the Demos office in Whitehall from 6pm for a lively discussion over drinks! We’ll be debating the latest developments in big tech regulation and getting to grips with the new Digital Markets Unit (DMU).
Our monthly GWN gatherings bring together a growing community of thought leaders, policymakers & technologists to think about the big question: how can we build a better web, together?
Sign up for your free ticket on eventbrite. We are also currently looking for organisations to partner with to help support and steer the Good Web Network in 2023. If you'd like to discuss this, please get in touch with ellen.judson@demos.co.uk” -Sophia Knight
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