10 New Orgs Added to Our Responsible Tech Organization List That You Should Know About
Our 500+ Responsible Tech Orgs List got a facelift — and we’re excited to share some new additions below. When curating our list, we look at the structure of the organization (e.g., are they a non-profit/NGO), its areas of focus (e.g., Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Public Interest Technology, Tech & Democracy, Youth/Tech/Wellbeing), and the ability for others to get involved, along with what the organization is producing.
Check out the full list here. If you know of any additions, we want to hear from you!
@OneCyversity
“Our mission is to achieve the consistent representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the cybersecurity industry through programs designed to diversify, educate, and empower. Cyversity tackles the ‘great cyber divide’ with scholarship opportunities, diverse workforce development, innovative outreach, and mentoring programs.
Our vision is to:
Function as a representative body on issues and developments that affect the careers of underrepresented and women cybersecurity professionals.
Increase the number of underrepresented and women students pursuing cybersecurity-related disciplines at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels by funding scholarships opportunities.
Facilitate the career advancement of existing member cybersecurity practitioners through mentoring, grants towards advanced degrees and professional certifications in the field of cybersecurity.
Establish a mechanism for gathering and disseminating information for underrepresented and women cybersecurity professionals.”
@Transparenttech
“The Coalition for Independent Technology Research works to advance, defend, and sustain the right to study the impact of technology on society. We aim to do so by building a coalition of academics, journalists, civil society researchers, and community scientists committed to advocating for and organizing in defense of research that is ethical, transparent, and privacy-preserving. We are committed to supporting research by individuals as diverse as the societies we share. The Coalition and its members are, and will remain, independent of the technology industry we study."
@SocImpTecCTR
"The Centre for Social Impact Technology is a city-wide knowledge hub for nurturing dialogue, learning, and action on the convergence of social innovation and digital technology innovation The vision of the Centre is to catalyze an innovation ecosystem in Calgary, Alberta around technology that is not only socially beneficial but socially transformative (responsible, open, inclusive, shared, and regenerative)."
Bias Buccaneers
@BiasBounty
"Bias Buccaneers is the first nonprofit intended to create ongoing bug bounties in the area of algorithmic bias, collaborate with technology companies, and pave the way for transparent and reproducible evaluations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems."
@Trustworthy_ML
“As machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly being deployed in real-world applications, it is critical to ensure that these systems are behaving responsibly and are trustworthy. To this end, there has been growing interest from researchers and practitioners to develop and deploy ML models and algorithms that are not only accurate, but also explainable, fair, privacy-preserving, causal, and robust. This broad area of research is commonly referred to as trustworthy ML.
While it is incredibly exciting that researchers from diverse domains ranging from machine learning to health policy and law are working on trustworthy ML, this has also resulted in the emergence of critical challenges such as information overload and lack of visibility for work of early career researchers. Furthermore, the barriers to entry into this field are growing day-by-day -- researchers entering the field are faced with an overwhelming amount of prior work without a clear roadmap of where to start and how to navigate the field.
To address these challenges, we are launching the Trustworthy ML Initiative (TrustML) with the following goals:
Enable easy access of fundamental resources to newcomers in the field.
Provide a platform for early career researchers to showcase and disseminate their work.
Encourage discussion and debate on the latest work on trustworthy ML.
Develop a community of researchers and practitioners working on topics related to trustworthy ML.”
@The_IDH
"As a student-run digital ethics think tank, founded out of North Central University in downtown Minneapolis, the IDH builds coalitions across the digital divide by bringing diverse and bi-partisan teams of students, advocates, researches, educators, and politicians together to fight for a free and just post-digital world. Through our academic research, nationally piloted high school and college curricula, video and art advocacy, and community education workshops, the IDH asks everyone a simple question: Technology is going to keep expanding -- and changing what it means to be a patient, a citizen, a politician, a student, a person in this post-digital world – shouldn’t we all have a say in where it’s heading?"
@CybersafeHQ
"Cybersafe Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization on a mission to facilitate pockets of changes that ensure a safer internet for everyone with digital access in Africa. Through our flagship initiative #NoGoFallMaga, we have in recent past launched cybersecurity awareness campaigns reaching over 20,000,000 people, organized cybersecurity awareness training for over 4000 SMEs, educating over 9000 employees of these organizations, launched Africa’s first storified cybersecurity awareness handbook and possibly Africa’s first afrobeat cybersecurity awareness song."
@MiCLeadership
"Minorities in Cybersecurity (MiC) was developed out of a unique passion to help fill the gap that exists in the support and development of women and minority leaders in the cybersecurity field. It is our mission to provide practical knowledge, training, development, and support to our members with the sole purpose of preparing them to become the next generation of global cybersecurity leaders."
@CalBlueprint
"We’re a club at UC Berkeley that develops pro-bono apps for nonprofits and promotes tech for social good."
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
"The ECAT contributes with scientific and technical expertise to the European Commission's exclusive supervisory and enforcement role of the systemic obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) provided for under the DSA. Scientists and experts working at the ECAT will cooperate with industry representatives, academia, and civil society organisations to improve our understanding of how algorithms work: they will analyse transparency, assess risks, and propose new transparent approaches and best practices."
