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.
The Future of Privacy Forum
FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, an...
Digital Futures Lab
Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.
The Student Privacy Resource Center
Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data...
Eticas
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compl...
Deceptive Design Resources
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
Beyond Binary Code Builder
Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
Responsible Innovation Primer
A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders
Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?
In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change.
Startups & Society Initiative
We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.
Mozilla AI
A startup — and community — building trustworthy and open-source AI.
Technology and the Public Interest (2022 book)
In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.
Own Your Data Foundation
We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
Is That Even Legal? A guide for builders experimenting with data governance
What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance
Tech Matters
We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.
Platform://Democracy
The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values
Tech Stewardship Practice Program
A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice
All Tech Is Human
All Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.
Deon
deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existin...
All Tech Is Human Slack
Our Slack workspace helps individuals in the Responsible Tech ecosystem connect with one another, discuss research, share events, learn about careers and job opportunities, and more. In addition, we h...
Mapping Healthy Digital Public Spaces
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO)
The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.
Have I Been Trained?
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation UK (CDEI)
The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.
We, the Internet
Internet governance, with and for citizens
Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
The World Ethical Data Forum
The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data.
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.
Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power
What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?
Ethical Tech Collective
To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data...
Superbloom Design
Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.
IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action
While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organizat...
Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG)
The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.
Authoritarian Tech Newsletter
From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.
HX Project
Short for “human experience,” HX is an approach to talking about, engaging with, and designing technology in a way that is aligned with our needs as humans — not users.
Responsible Tech Mentorship Program
All Tech Is Human has developed this free program in order to help build the Responsible Tech pipeline – by facilitating connections and career development among talented students, career changers, an...
All Tech Is Human Library Podcast Series
The All Tech Is Human Library Podcast is a special 16-part series featuring a series of rapid-fire intimate conversations with academics, AI ethicists, activists, entrepreneurs, public interest techno...
EthicalEmail.org
The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.
Areto Analyzer (formerly ParityBOT)
ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityB...
Knowing without Seeing
Knowing without Seeing is a research project by Amber Sinha which explores meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms, and privileges comprehension over mere access to information.
Addressing ethical gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding care and capabilities
This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
Coalition for Independent Tech Research
The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Decolonising Digital Rights
The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.
Identifying Potential Data Risks and Harms
We set ourselves a task to create a short, simple, and practical resource to help teams who are designing projects to identify potential risks and harms.
The Limits to Digital Consent: Understanding the risks of ethical consent and data collection for underrepresented communities
A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress
Digital Future Society
Initiative of Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Coda Story
Coda Story reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are conn...
Omidyar Network - The Tech We Want
The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainabi...
Reorganise: 15 stories of workers fighting back in a digital age
"In only a decade, the labour market has changed beyond all recognition - from zero-hour contracts to platform monopolies - meanwhile union memberships are at historic lows."
Fraudescorekaart
An interactive scorecard where people can see if they would be flagged for social welfare fraud under the Netherlands' broken system