Covid State of Play: Vaccines and Variants
Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux, Professor Jonathan Zittrain, and Dr. Vanessa Kerry discuss vaccine roll-out and the impact of new COVID strains from both a domestic and global perspective.
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People who have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, or have become infected with it, need to quarantine or isolate from others so that they don’t spread the disease to...
View ArticleDigital Witnesses: The Power of Looking
Hannane Ferdjani, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu, and Dr. Allissa Richardson explore how young Black people around the world are utilizing tech tools to track and circumvent oppressive policies by...
View ArticleHindsight is 2020: Learning From our Past to Build a Better Future
We are still in the early days of the Internet, but there is a growing sense that it's creating more problems than it’s solving. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when we shared an...
View ArticleReopening Schools: A Seminar for State & Local Leaders
Since the federal stimulus bill has been signed, one of our nation’s major goals is to safely and rapidly reopen schools using funds allocated to State Departments of Education. This session focuses on...
View ArticleCOVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance...
In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Diego Cerna Aragón, Shyam Krishna, Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan,...
View ArticleDecoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures
What would the Internet look like if it was designed by sex workers? Taking a sex worker lens to tech ethics envisions a radically different online space. Sex workers hold unique insights into the real...
View ArticleGoverning the Social Media City
The past few years have highlighted the range of problems that social media seems to amplify: harassment, hate speech, hoaxes, violent extremism, and more. Through traditional governing and research...
View ArticleForesight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics
Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that we...
View ArticleRestoring US Leadership for Global Health
Governments around the world failed to contain COVID-19, with more than 3.2 million deaths and counting. Even before the pandemic, the United States was questioning its commitments to global health,...
View ArticleMistrust: How to revitalize civics at a moment of low public trust in...
Even before the storming of the US Capitol, mistrust in institutions like the press and the federal government was challenging the civic fabric of America. In Ethan Zuckerman's new book, "Mistrust", he...
View ArticleAt the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism & Digital Development
The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others...
View ArticleFraming Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology...
This book talk features Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a co-author of the recently published book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil. The book explores how reframing some of the...
View ArticleOrganizing, Budgeting, and Implementing Wraparound Services for People in...
People who have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, or have become infected with it, need to quarantine or isolate from others so that they don’t spread the disease to...
View ArticleDigital Witnesses: The Power of Looking
Hannane Ferdjani, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu, and Dr. Allissa Richardson explore how young Black people around the world are utilizing tech tools to track and circumvent oppressive policies by...
View ArticleHindsight is 2020: Learning From our Past to Build a Better Future
We are still in the early days of the Internet, but there is a growing sense that it's creating more problems than it’s solving. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when we shared an...
View ArticleReopening Schools: A Seminar for State & Local Leaders
Since the federal stimulus bill has been signed, one of our nation’s major goals is to safely and rapidly reopen schools using funds allocated to State Departments of Education. This session focuses on...
View ArticleCOVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance...
In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Diego Cerna Aragón, Shyam Krishna, Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan,...
View ArticleDecoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures
What would the Internet look like if it was designed by sex workers? Taking a sex worker lens to tech ethics envisions a radically different online space. Sex workers hold unique insights into the real...
View ArticleGoverning the Social Media City
The past few years have highlighted the range of problems that social media seems to amplify: harassment, hate speech, hoaxes, violent extremism, and more. Through traditional governing and research...
View ArticleForesight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics
Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that we...
View ArticleRestoring US Leadership for Global Health
Governments around the world failed to contain COVID-19, with more than 3.2 million deaths and counting. Even before the pandemic, the United States was questioning its commitments to global health,...
View ArticleMistrust: How to revitalize civics at a moment of low public trust in...
Even before the storming of the US Capitol, mistrust in institutions like the press and the federal government was challenging the civic fabric of America. In Ethan Zuckerman's new book, "Mistrust", he...
View ArticleAt the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism & Digital Development
The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others...
View ArticleFraming Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology...
This book talk features Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a co-author of the recently published book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil. The book explores how reframing some of the...
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