7 HX Organizations: Broken Business Model
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 7 of these HX-focused organizations related to Broken Business Model that you should know about:
Accountable Tech
Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) “Accountable Tech is working to bring about long-term structural reform to tackle the existential threat social media companies pose to our information ecosystem and democracy.” Accountabletech.org
RESOURCE: Main Street Against Big Tech is a project of Accountable Tech “empowering small business owners themselves to share their lived experiences to tell the truth about Big Tech’s relationship with small businesses.”
TAG: Broken Business Model, Digital Citizenship
Centre for Technomoral Futures
Centre for Technomoral Futures (@CentreTMFutures) “Our mission at the Centre for Technomoral Futures is to unify technical and moral modes of future-building expertise in new models of research, education, design and engagement that directly serve the goals of sustainable, just and ethical innovation...The Centre for Technomoral Futures is a home for developing more constructive modes of innovation: innovation that preserves and strengthens human ties and capabilities; that builds more accessible and just paths to public participation in the co-creation of our futures; and that reinvests the power of technology into the repair, maintenance and care of our communities and our planet.” efi.ed.ac.uk/centre-technomoral-futures/
RESOURCE: Study with us: New postgraduate Futures programmes
TAG: Broken Business Model, Tech Augmentation
Change the Terms
Change the Terms (@changeterms) “We are a coalition of civil rights, human rights, technology policy, and consumer protection organizations…We believe that tech companies need to do more to combat hateful conduct on their platforms.” changetheterms.org
RESOURCE: Adopt the Terms
TAG: Content Moderation, Broken Business Model
Jain Family Institute
Jain Family Institute (@jainfamilyinst) “The Jain Family Institute is a nonpartisan applied research organization in the social sciences. We work to bring research and policy from conception in theory to implementation in society…Our mission is to address pressing social problems by identifying and implementing high-impact interventions that will translate to real world progress. JFI’s work sits at the intersection of economics, politics, academia, information technology, finance, and culture to bring promising ideas from theory to practice. We are focused on building proofs of concept, pilots, and actionable knowledge.” jainfamilyinstitute.org/our-work/digital-ethics-and-governance/
RESOURCE: Digital Ethics and Governance
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Broken Business Model
Open Data Institute
Open Data Institute (@ODIHQ) “The ODI is a non-profit with a mission to work with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem. We work with a range of organisations, governments, public bodies and civil society to create a world where data works for everyone.” theodi.org/
RESOURCES: Reports, Tools, Webinars
TAG: Broken Business Model, Digital Citizenship
JOB OPENING: Open Data Institute is hiring a Senior Developer
Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT)
Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT) (@PEATWorks) “We foster digital accessibility in the workplace and a vision for “Why” and “How” to create accessible emerging technologies…Our mission is to foster collaborations in the technology space that build inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities. Our vision is a future where new and emerging technologies are accessible to the workforce by design.” PEATworks.org
RESOURCES: Digital Accessibility Toolkits, Inclusive XR in the Workplace, Policy and Workforce Development
TAG: Product Design, Broken Business Model, Digital Citizenship
Women in AI Ethics
Women in AI Ethics (@Women_AI_Ethics) “The Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE) is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to increase recognition, representation, and empowerment of brilliant women in this space who are working hard to save humanity from the dark side of AI.. It is funded by Lighthouse3, donations, and ticket sales. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and used to fund mission-aligned activities, which includes but is not limited to providing free AI Ethics career resources, hosting community events, and funding other initiatives to support women in this space.” Lighthouse3.com/womeninaiethics
RESOURCE: Resources - videos, Board of Advisors, 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ list – 2021
TAG: Digital Citizenship, Product Design, Broken Business Model, Tech & Wellness