Year in review, upcoming livestreams, and much more!
Plus let us know what you would like to see from All Tech Is Human in 2025
👋Nice to see you here!
🙏With Thanksgiving in the rearview and the holiday season beginning, we are in a thankful mood: thank you to everyone who has helped All Tech Is Human with our mission to build the world’s largest multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network in Responsible Tech. This allows us to tackle thorny tech & society issues through collective understanding, involvement, and action. Our work and impact is made possible through the participation of tens of thousands of people across the globe, so thank you.
🔭In today’s newsletter you’ll see our Year in Review showcasing our impact in 2024, be able to sign up for two upcoming livestreams, participate in an information session we’re doing with Obama Leaders USA (Obama Foundation), learn about our new career-focused newsletter, catch up on recent videos and articles, and much more!
🤯And thank you for everyone who filled out an application for our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program; we had over 1k applications (from 69 countries) we’re sifting through, with individuals to be contacted in early January.
Now, onto the newsletter 👇
Check out some of the highlights from 2024 and where our organization is headed
All Tech Is Human has taken a whole-of-ecosystem approach with our work, which means that we are designed to learn from the ecosystem, involve a broad range of individuals across the ecosystem, and influence the direction of the Responsible Tech ecosystem at large.
We’re done a lot so far in 2024! Some of the highlights you will see in our Year in Review include:
Holding 15 in-person gatherings in NYC, DC, SF, and London on topics such as Responsible AI, the future of Trust & Safety, and ensuring a safe online experience for youth. (Watch videos from the gatherings here.)
In 2024, we will have held 43 (!!) livestreams bringing in a wide range of voices across civil society, government, industry, and academia.
Growing our Slack community (apply | sign in) to over 11k members across 105 countries. This is how people “find the others.”
Releasing the fifth edition of our Responsible Tech Guide, which has had over 1.6k downloads since its release in mid-September.
Partnered with Thorn to create industry-leading standards to reduce AI-generated CSAM.
Featured individuals such as Amandeep Singh Gill, Frank McCourt, Baroness Joanna Shields, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Julia Angwin, Julie Inman-Grant, Juliet Shen, Justin Hendix, Melissa Fleming, Nina Jankowicz, Nora Benavidez, Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, Rob Reich, Rumman Chowdhury, Sean Litton, Sinead Bovell, Sonia Livingstone, Tracy Chou, and many more!
💡Do you have an idea for All Tech Is Human as we map out our plans for 2025? Let us know here.
How can you make an impact as a changemaker in Responsible Tech? Join our Dec 12th livestream
For our next livestream, Nicole Cuneo (University Network Project Lead with All Tech Is Human) will be in discussion with Angela Oduor Lungati, who was recently honored by Mozilla’s Rise25 in the change agent category. This conversation will explore the challenges and opportunities young changemakers face, practical steps to build impactful careers in tech, and ways to drive ethical innovation and inclusivity.
Angela is a technologist, community builder, and open-source software advocate passionate about building and using appropriate technology tools to impact the lives of marginalized groups. She is the Executive Director at Ushahidi, a global non-profit technology company that helps communities quickly collect and share information that enables them to raise voices, inform decisions and influence change.
How do we have tech advancement that is designed for inclusivity, equity, and justice? Join our December 19th livestream
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has reshaped industries, economies, and societies worldwide. However, these advancements often disproportionately affect marginalized communities, who face both opportunities and risks from AI technologies.
In this livestream featuring Desmond Patton (Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Rise25 honoree) and Lama Mohammed (Affiliate at ATIH), we will explore the intersection of AI and marginalized communities, highlighting the challenges while advocating for technological advancement that is designed for inclusivity, equity, and justice.
👋Are you a changemaker?
The Obama Foundation has launched the search for the next cohort of its Obama Leaders USA: 25- 45-year-old values-driven changemakers ready to expand their impact and help strengthen democratic culture in the U.S.
You are invited to join a special information session hosted by the Obama Foundation in collaboration with All Tech Is Human to learn more about applying to the Obama Leaders USA program! You will learn more from Vandinika Shukla (Deputy Director, Global Programs - USA Lead, Obama Foundation) & David Ryan Polgar (Founder & President, All Tech is Human) about the program, the importance of a responsible tech ecosystem for stronger democracies, meet an Obama USA Leader, and ask any questions you may have.
The Obama Foundation Leaders USA program is a six-month, virtual leadership development program that seeks to inspire, empower, and connect values-driven changemakers from across the United States and U.S. territories. Obama Leaders gain new skills, connections, ideas and a deeper understanding of how to strengthen our democracy. Applications are now open; Apply here.
Please join us for our upcoming information session on Monday, December 9th from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET. Zoom and registration details can be found here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
☝️For those looking for more Responsible Tech Career insight, we’ve launched a newsletter!
Our main newsletter, which you are reading, arrives every two weeks. We have heard from a lot of you that you want more information about the jobs we are posting on our Responsible Tech Job Board, the roles that are being shared daily in our Slack careers channel, and insight from our team about how the field is evolving. To meet this demand, we have launched a new newsletter focused entirely on Responsible Tech Careers.
This careers newsletter goes out every two weeks, staggered on opposite weeks from this one. (Hey, we want you to achieve Inbox Zero 📧 in the New Year.)
👀 In Case You Missed It…
All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech…here are some recent happenings and projects for you to get involved with.
📺What is the role of technology in amplifying disinformation and the potential risks of its misuse by adversarial actors? Renee DiResta (Author, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality), had this conversation with Alexis Crews (Senior Fellow, Information Integrity, All Tech Is Human) during a recent livestream.
👣 Deb Donig, All Tech Is Human’s Siegel Research Fellow, wrote a piece about The Pathway Forward for Responsible Tech. You can also find Deb speaking in the coming days as part of Metaverse Safety Week.
👏We’re continuing to celebrate Mozilla’s Rise25 honorees, showcasing some of the changemakers who are inspiring the next generation. In today’s newsletter we are featuring a profile interview with Aaron Gokaslan, a PhD student at Cornell Tech, focusing on data, systems, and applications for generative models.
🏞️All Tech Is Human partnered with the Data Science Institute and Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University on a panel featuring Eli Pariser (Co-Director, New_ Public) and Audrey Tang (Former Minister of Digital Affairs, Government of Taiwan) in conversation with Camille François (Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University) discussing the reshaping of social media for the public good.
👉You can also find Audrey in our Responsible Tech Guide, and watch an earlier ATIH panel with Camille on cultivating the next generation of Trust & Safety leaders.
👩💻Ali Feldhausen will be speaking about Responsible Tech careers at DevFest in the Bronx this Friday.
✊ Let’s co-create a better tech future
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P.S. Thank you for an amazing 2024 so far!
