Cool Happenings in Responsible Tech! November 21st and beyond.
There are so many great happenings in Responsible Tech! Interested in having your project or event potentially featured? Please email Sandra Khalil, our Head of Partnerships.
Here are a few events and happenings we’re highlighting this week…
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“The Call for Proposals (CFP) for the 3rd annual TrustCon is open! TrustCon is the only global conference dedicated to trust and safety professionals who are responsible for the challenging work of keeping our platforms and communities safe. TrustCon 2024 will continue to create an enduring and supportive community, offer workshops and presentations focused on the practice of trust and safety, and explore successes, lessons learned, and the future of the field.If you’re a part of the trust and safety ecosystem, consider submitting a proposal for possible inclusion in the TrustCon 2024 program. Submissions are due Friday, February 2 at 11:59pm PST. Click here to learn more.” -Amanda Menking, TSPA
“Check out free teaching resources from the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium: https://stanfordio.github.io/TeachingTrustSafety/ The Consortium – academic, industry and non-profit experts in online trust and safety problems – has published a 13-module reading list and associated slide decks, recorded lectures, and exercises on topics like content moderation, child and adult sexual exploitation, and metrics and measurement. The Consortium also allows networking among faculty teaching courses on online safety at the same time, to facilitate cross-university projects and lecture swapping. To join, email trustandsafetyjournal@stanford.edu.” -Shelby Grossman, Stanford Internet Observatory
Hi responsible-techies! My name is Arpan Somani and in addition to being a member of the ATIH community, I’m also involved with NTEN, a community of nonprofit and technology professionals. This year I’m serving on the NTEN committee for the Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest and I wanted to encourage the ATIH community to spread the word and apply.The Pizzigati Prize provides grants to developers who are building open source software to support nonprofits and their communities. We’re looking for people and organizations who are showing a commitment to social impact and collaboration! The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest honors the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Tony never had a chance to fulfill his computing dreams, so the prize was created to help others realize theirs. - Apran Somanim, NTEN committee
“The University of Montreal and Mila co-organised a Summer School on Responsible AI and Human Rights. A brief overview of the first edition is available on Mila's website.I’m happy to announce that following the success of the 2023 edition, the Summer School will be back in May 2024. Once again, the Summer School will welcome 40 participants from all over the world and from all disciplines to explore the intersection between Human Rights and Responsible AI with world-renowned experts in the field of AI. It is open to graduate students, researchers and professionals from non-profit, private and public sector organizations.
If you know of anyone who might be interested or if you can share this information to your network it would be greatly appreciated! You’ll find all the information you need to promote the program in the attached document. The call for application is open until December 6, 2023. Full details are available here: https://mila.quebec/en/summer-school-responsible-ai/
Please reach out to me or François Drammeh, Summer School Coordinator at Mila.” -Solenne Savoia
“Hey everyone! I’m Glenn Ellingson, a Visiting Fellow at the Integrity Institute. We have just published a pair of election integrity best practices docs (part 1 is why & how to get started; part 2 is about setting specific goals and how to reach them). This guide is written first and foremost for our fellow professionals working at internet platforms of all sizes and types as we head into a huge wave of global elections in 2024 (65 elections in 54 countries, by one count!), but also provides an insider perspective to inform anyone thinking or writing about, partnering with, influencing, or simply demanding better from internet companies around elections. Have a look and then please, we would love to hear from you! Is this helpful? What would make it better? What else could we do for y’all? You can hit me back on the ATIH slack or email.” -Glenn Ellingson, Integrity Institute
“We are excited to announce the launch of Stanford Internet Observatory’s pilot grants program to support research on online trust and safety issues in the majority world. This program will fund 6-10 proposals providing up to $15,000 per project, addressing a range of topics not limited to fraud, harassment, information interference, abusive content, encryption, internet connectivity, child safety, and content moderation outside North American and Western European context. We are grateful to the Omidyar Network for support of this initiative.Awardees will have opportunities for mentorship and feedback on their research, with the grant program culminating in a virtual symposium. Please find more information about the program here.
We kindly ask for your support in sharing this opportunity within your networks, helping us reach the right audience for this important research.The application deadline is January 30, 2024, and award announcements will be made by March 1, 2024. Here is the application link for proposal submission.Thank you for your support in advancing the understanding of the trust and safety discipline worldwide. For any application related questions, please email internetobservatory@stanford.edu.” -Shubhi Mathur