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The Signal Code retweeted
🌟HDX Year in Review for 2021:
-Over 1.3 million unique users
-20 new organizations (298 total)
-2,071 new datasets (18,500 total)
-1.8 million datasets downloaded
❤️Thanks to our community for another great year!
Read more in @JTeran2000's blog⤵️ centre.humdata.org/hdx-year-…
The Signal Code retweeted
@Internews @safesisters guide offers a common-sense guide to digital safety for women and girls online in sub-saharan Afric. It’s available in several African languages including Swahili!
#16DaysofActivism
#DigitalResourceShareathon
🔗internews.org/wp-content/upl…
Remembering how the Internet is based in physical infrastructure = 98% of “oh $/!+” insights re data insecurity.
Deep sea cables are critical to understanding how amassing power through internet infrastructure works. This piece by Tanay Mahindru is a must-read: botpopuli.net/digging-deeper…
The Signal Code retweeted
📢 Data responsibility is a critical issue for the humanitarian system to address.
🆕 Read about system-wide progress on advancing #DataResponsibility in the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022, launched today by the UN and partners.
gho.unocha.org/delivering-be…
Sometimes you save the article to read later. Sometimes you hit “print” immediately.
This is the latter. Don’t miss it —>
📢New paper! In which I work through a lot of my uncomfortable observations since joining academia, examining the alarming-but-quiet capture of academic AI research by big tech, what this means for how and what we know about AI, and how we can resist.
interactions.acm.org/archive…
The Signal Code retweeted
Honored to kickoff the launch of the Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform next week w/ @safiyanoble @nseufot @stevenrenderos @JacquieSMason @CarmenScurato to galvanize action around tech reforms centering civil rights, transparency & privacy. This is big, y’all! RSVP 👇
The Signal Code retweeted
Happening tonight! @RonDeibert, director of @citizenlab and author of "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" will give a #LipsetLecture on “Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy” at 6pm EST. @NEDemocracy Sign up to join👇
ned.org/events/eighteenth-an…
The Signal Code retweeted
🇺🇳@UNOCHA has an important role to play in supporting the @iascch-recommended actions for data responsibility in humanitarian action.
💡Learn more in the OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines: centre.humdata.org/the-ocha-…
Website status: running updates, reorganizing content, chasing ferrets out of cupboards.
We'll be back online soon.
There’s only a couple of seats left in our winter course on Humanitarian Geospatial Analytics + Tech! Don’t miss out —> HHI.Harvard.edu/hgtw
<bounces in seat> 15 min, 15 min til the webinar....
🔴 LIVE IN 1 HOUR 🔴 Webinar on geoanalytics for humanitarian health. There's still time to RSVP now! buff.ly/3ppom7l
Come join us for this ongoing discussion of satellite imagery for remote atrocity warning + response. When Caitlin + Isaac get going, it’s hard to stop them 😆 🌍 🛰
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It's almost time! Join us at 11:00 ET TODAY to hear @Lindymedic discuss Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data --> buff.ly/31UWzl4
TOMORROW: Join @lindymedic on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data // Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF
Tired of doom-scrolling the polls? Take a break + register for this week's Critical Cartography webinar w/ @HHI's @Lindymedic, Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF
It's almost Election Day here in the US, so naturally we're thinking about (checks notes) how to use remote sensing to analyze conflict + forecast violent events.
Join us Nov 12, 11:00 ET w/ Isaac Baker, Saira Khan + @CaitlinHowarth --> buff.ly/37QCj7S
If you're into humanitarian ethics + tech, join us for next week's session on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, power and politics of spatial data by @Lindymedic, Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF
Huge thanks to @akrishnan23 for joining us @HHI today! If you missed our live talk, never fear - it's recorded + available free youtube.com/watch?v=OcIZrhUo…
Starting in 30min: @akrishnan23 + @CaitlinHowarth talk humanitarian ethics, tech, and digital decolonization --> eventbrite.com/e/humanitaria…
TODAY 11:00 ET: A discussion about humanitarian ethics + digital decolonization w/ @akrishnan23 + @CaitlinHowarth
eventbrite.com/e/humanitaria…