Ethical tech and responsible tech
While the first generations of tech-for-good work took a solutionist approach to addressing existing problems with new technology, scholars and activists are driving growing awareness of the problems with technology itself. By exposing the negative consequences, intended or otherwise, of tech, these communities draw attention to issues with tech-centric approaches. Not all of the projects here adopt an ethics lens in their work, but we use it here for simplicity's sake.
Suggested reading:
- 10 things we should all demand from Big Tech right now, Vox (2019)
- Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Ben Green.
Docs
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).
School for Poetic Computation (SFPC)
School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is an experimental school in New York and online founded in 2013. SFPC facilitates the study of art, code, hardware, and critical theory through lenses of decoloni...
Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI)
Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at IIT Madras.
Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI)
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information - this is not just the Federal Commissioner himself - it is above all a modern data protection supervisory authority.
CyPurr Collective
We’re a small cryptoparty and cat-enthusiast collective. We’ve held digital security workshops all over NYC, including the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Bluestockings, and more ove...
Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators
"GTUACM says it aims to provide a global platform to bargain with tech companies, alongside coordinating collective campaigns and researching occupational health." - The Verge
Eticas Audit library
An open-source Python library designed to assist developers in calculating fairness metrics and assessing bias in machine learning models.
No Azure for Apartheid
Join the growing No Tech for Apartheid movement and demand that Microsoft live up to its own purported ethical values—by ending its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
Council on Technology and Social Cohesion
The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.
AI Education Fact Sheet for 3rd Party Generative AI Tools
A questionnaire for AI vendors hoping to serve Lynwood, CA's school system
Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)
Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discriminatio...
MENA Observatory on Responsible AI
The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible da...
People vs. Big Tech
People vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.
DigiAdGood
DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.
Solar Protocol
This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.
Bluesky
We’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.
Prosocial Media
We propose an alternative platform model that the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. By E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, Audrey Tang
The Datasphere Initiative
The Datasphere Initiative is a non-profit dedicated to global collaboration on technical and policy solutions for the urgent, multidimensional, and cross-border challenges of data governance.
No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE)
The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth ju...
Graze.social
A social media platform that allows users to create and customize their own personalized feeds, including community feeds, hobby-specific feeds, and more.
Current AI
Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.
AI Collaborative
Advancing AI in the public interest.
Humane Intelligence
Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.
The Digital Services Coordinators Database
Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act
BuzzFeed Island
BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction
Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST)
Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people
DIVERSIFAIR
A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.
What To Fix
We build innovative tools, methodologies, datasets and partnerships to further the diagnosis of systemic risks to internet integrity.
Free Our Feeds
Save Social Media From Billionaire Capture.
Meta Oversight Board
Improving how Meta treats people and communities around the world
Plattform://Demokratie
Im Zentrum steht dabei folgende Frage: Können “Plattformräte” oder andere Institutionen dafür sorgen, dass öffentliche Interessen und demokratische Werte in den Regelsetzungsprozessen von Plattformen...
solicituddedatos.es
Las empresas tienen que darte acceso a tus datos y corregirlos o incluso eliminarlos si es necesario. Como una organización sin fines de lucro, te ayudamos a ejercer esos derechos – gratis y sin neces...
demandetesdonnees.fr
Les entreprises doivent vous donner accès à vos données et les corriger, voire les supprimer si nécessaire. En tant qu'association à but non lucratif, nous vous aidons à exercer ces droits - gratuitem...
gegevensaanvragen.nl
U heeft het recht op privacy!
pedidodedados.org
Você tem direito à privacidade !
Government AI Coalition
The GovAI Coalition went public...publishing a set of deliverables any organization could use to help jumpstart their agency with responsible AI practices.
datarequests.org
Companies have to give you access to your data and correct or even delete them if necessary. As a non-profit association, we help you use those rights – free of charge and registration, of course.
osobnipodaci.org
Poduzeća ti moraju omogućiti pristup tvojim podacima i ispraviti ih ili čak izbrisati ako je potrebno. Kao neprofitna udruga, pomažemo ti koristiti ta prava – besplatno i bez registracije.
Datenanfragen.de
Nutze Dein Recht auf Datenschutz.
Ubuntu AI Working Group
This is a collective of dedicated individuals and organizations committed to fostering ethical AI practices, encouraging research, and addressing the societal implications of AI across Africa and larg...
Equiano Institute
A grassroots interdisciplinary responsible AI lab for Africa and the Global South. Researching technical alignment and governance of AI.
Compiler Media, Inc.
Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.
Google Censorship
A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.
Responsible Tech Summit
Responsible Tech Organizations
All Tech Is Human's Airtable of 600+ organizations
MIT AI Risk Repository
The MIT AI risk Repository is a comprehensive living database of over 1000 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.
Telescope
a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography
¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos?
¿Cómo protegen las empresas de telecomunicaciones nuestra información cuando el Estado toca la puerta?
MLCommons AI Safety
The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI sa...
When 'doing ethics' meets public procurement of smart city technology – an Amsterdam case study
[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized