15 HX Organizations: Digital Citizenship
All Tech Is Human just released HX Report: Aligning Our Tech Future with the Human Experience! Read and download the report here. The report features 45 profile interviews and over 100 organizations focused on making a better tech future, such as the ones found below.
The report highlights six key themes: Product Design, Broken Business Model, Content Moderation, Digital Citizenship, Tech Augmentation, and Tech and Wellbeing. Many of the organizations related to HX (Human Experience) overlap multiple themes.
Here are 10 of these HX-focused organizations related to Digital Citizenship that you should know about:
Access Now
Access Now (@accessnow) “Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. Organizer of @RightsCon, the annual human rights and technology conference.” Accessnow.org
RESOURCE: “Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline works with individuals and organizations around the world to keep them safe online. If you’re at risk, we can help you improve your digital security practices to keep out of harm’s way. If you’re already under attack, we provide rapid-response emergency assistance.”
TAG: Digital Citizenship
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute (@AINowInstitute) “The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.” Their work focuses on four core domains: Rights & Liberties; Labor & Automation; Bias & Inclusion; Safety & Critical Infrastructure. AInowinstitute.org
RESOURCE: How to Interview a Tech Company: A Guide for Students
TAG: Digital Citizenship
Algorithmic Justice League
Algorithmic Justice League (@AJLUnited) “The Algorithmic Justice League’s mission is to raise awareness about the impacts of AI, equip advocates with empirical research, build the voice and choice of the most impacted communities, and galvanize researchers, policy makers, and industry practitioners to mitigate AI harms and biases. We’re building a movement to shift the AI ecosystem towards equitable and accountable AI.” AJL.org
RESOURCES: Coded Bias Documentary, Facial Recognition Technologies: A Primer
TAG: Digital Citizenship
Aspen Digital
Aspen Digital (@AspenDigital, @AspenInstitute) “We empower policy-makers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world. Aspeninstitute.org/programs/aspendigital/
RESOURCE: Commission on Information Disorder Final Report
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Content Moderation
Aspen Tech Policy Hub
Aspen Tech Policy Hub (@AspenPolicyHub) “The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. Modeled after tech incubators like Y Combinator, we take tech experts, teach them the policy process through fellowship and executive education programs in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems.” AspenTechPolicyHub.org
RESOURCE: Aspen Tech Policy Hub Projects
TAG: Digital Citizenship
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Democracy & Technology (@CenDemTech) “The Center for Democracy & Technology is a 501(c)(3) working to promote democratic values by shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on the rights of the individual. CDT supports laws, corporate policies, and technological tools that protect privacy and security and enable free speech online.” Cdt.org
RESOURCES: Making Transparency Meaningful: A Framework for Policymakers, CDT and AAPD Report – Centering Disability in Technology Policy: Issue Landscape and Potential Opportunities for Action, CDTs collection of reports and insights
TAG: Digital Citizenship
Center for Humane Technology (CHT)
Center for Humane Technology (CHT) (@HumaneTech_) “Together with our partners, the Center for Humane Technology (CHT) is dedicated to radically reimagining our digital infrastructure. Our mission is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports our well-being, democracy, and shared information environment.” Humanetech.com
RESOURCES: Collection of Resources, Resources for Technologists, Resources for Policymakers, Resources for Parents and Educators
TAG: Tech & Wellbeing, Digital Citizenship, Product Design
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media (@CommonSense) “Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. We empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice, and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids’ lives.” Commonsensemedia.org
RESOURCES: Resource for Parents, Resource of Educators, Resource for Advocates, Tweens, Teens, Tech, and Mental Health: Coming of Age in an Increasingly Digital, Uncertain, and Unequal World 2020
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Content Moderation, Tech Augmentation
CyberWise
CyberWise (@BeCyberwise) “CyberWise is a resource site for BUSY grownups who want to help youth use digital media safely and wisely. It is the companion site to Cyber Civics, our comprehensive digital literacy program for middle school.” Cyberwise.org
RESOURCE: Learning Hubs
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Content Moderation
The Montreal AI Ethics Institute
The Montreal AI Ethics Institute (@mtlaiethics) “The Montreal AI Ethics Institute is an international non-profit organization democratizing AI ethics literacy. We equip citizens concerned about artificial intelligence to take action because we believe that civic competence is the foundation of change. You are our best shot at a future where humans and algorithms bring out the best in each other.” montrealethics.ai
RESOURCES: The AI Ethics Brief: Democratizing AI Ethics Literacy, State of AI Ethics
TAG: Digital Citizenship
New America’s Public Interest Technology
New America’s Public Interest Technology (@NewAmericaPIT) “New America's Public Interest Tech program works with communities to design, build, and implement better public services and policies via innovative strategies.” newamerica.org/pit
RESOURCES: New Practice Lab initiative, Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN)
TAG: Digital Citizenship
Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford Internet Institute (@oiioxford) “The Oxford Internet Institute is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet…Digital connections are now embedded in almost every aspect of our daily lives, and research on individual and collective behaviour online is crucial to understanding our social, economic and political world.” Oii.ox.ac.uk
RESOURCE: Education, Digital Life and Wellbeing, Industrialized Disinformation 2020 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Tech & Wellbeing
Pew Research Internet & Technology
Pew Research Internet & Technology (@pewinternet) “Nonpartisan, non-advocacy @pewresearch data about technology and the internet.” Pewresearch.org/internet
RESOURCES: Research Topics, The Role of Social Media in News
TAG: Digital Citizenship
Ranking Digital Rights
Ranking Digital Rights (@rankingrights) “Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights…We do this by ranking the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on relevant commitments and policies, based on international human rights standards. We work with companies as well as advocates, researchers, investors, and policymakers to establish and advance global standards for corporate accountability." RankingDigitalRights.org
RESOURCE: Theory of Change, Recommendations for governments and policymakers
TAG: Digital Citizenship
World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Revolution
World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Revolution (@WEF) “How can we maximize the benefits of science and technology for society? That's our mission. To achieve it, we’ve created a global network of expertise, collaboration and impact based in San Francisco, with centres in 13 countries. We partner with governments, leading companies, civil society, and experts from around the world to co-design and pilot innovative new approaches to policy and governance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution
RESOURCES: Predictions 2022: Data can help address the world’s biggest challenges - 5 experts explain how; Global Issues include: Big Data, Blockchain, Data Policy, Data Science, Digital Identity, Digital Inclusion, and more!
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Broken Business Model, Product Design