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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group that addresses the social and ethical consequences of widespread computer usage.

Bringing together people, organizations, and ideas to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.

Envisioning a world with technology that respects our attention, improves our well-being, and strengthens communities.

We stand up to tech giants and governments and for a future where technology is used to benefit everyone, not just the rich and powerful.

Social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies. Responsible technology is one of its three key focus areas.

Develops tools and standards to promote fair, ethical, and equitable outcomes for everyone who contributes to, benefits from, or is impacted by open source technologies.

Amazon employees applying pressure on Amazon to redefine what it means to be a responsible company in the era of the climate crisis.

a worker-led campaign of Google and Amazon workers organizing against the companies' $1B Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military (see also

fighting against the tech corporations fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state.

cataloging and exposing tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.

a process to identify, evaluate, and mitigate the known risks of AI to children and prepare for the known unknowns. The 5rights Foundation have also published

AI alignment that asks who gets heard, who is accountable, how failures are repaired, and when a system should stop. Alignment is not solved once. It is maintained in public.

A new agile event that fits into an iterative development cadence. A way to think about the potential impact of a product or service on people and society early on in the development cycle.

Activities to "help guide an ethically responsible, culturally considerate, and humanistic approach to designing with data."

"A personal response to the current state of the web [...] a statement of intent and a call to arms, inviting you, the reader, to go forth and build humane websites, and to resist the erosion of the web we know and love."

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

Practical ways for making ethical data standards part of your work every day. Available to

Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and society.

A podcast about the future of social media built on permissionless open protocols, hosted by Twitter's first employee, Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath. Hear what's possible when social platforms and content are no longer owned by corporations.

Tech Won't Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that tech is inherently political and ignoring that has serious consequences. It encourages listeners to think about how we can move beyond oppressive tech and towards tech for genuine public good.

An online course from Stanford University covering the ethical and social challenges that the technology sector faces throughout product and operational decision-making.