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awesome-tech-ethics

Awesome list of resources for reducing the potential negative effects of technology on society
https://github.com/sampart/awesome-tech-ethics

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  • See also

  • Toolkits

    • The Tarot Cards of Tech - A set of questions designed to help creators more fully consider the impact of technology.
    • IDEO's AI ethics cards - Activities to "help guide an ethically responsible, culturally considerate, and humanistic approach to designing with data."
    • Spotify Ethics Guild's ethics assessment - A tool for identifying ethical considerations when designing a product or service.
    • The ResponsibleTech.Work framework - an open-source framework developed by tech workers for tech workers. It equips tech workers with practical tools for more responsible product development.
    • Tethix Elemental Sparks - Printouts for origami [chatterboxes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller) to spark conversations about AI, data, fairness, and other sociotechnical challenges.
    • Manifesto for a Humane Web - "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."
    • Consequence Scanning - 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.
    • Sweet summer child score - An interactive quiz to identify the possibility of harm to people and communities by a socio-technical system.
    • Permacomputing design principles - 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.
    • Sweet summer child score - An interactive quiz to identify the possibility of harm to people and communities by a socio-technical system.

  • Organisations

    • Center for Humane Technology - Envisioning a world with technology that respects our attention, improves our well-being, and strengthens communities.
    • All Tech Is Human - Bringing together people, organizations, and ideas to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.
    • The Design Justice Network - A home for people who are committed to embodying and practicing the [Design Justice Network Principles](https://designjustice.org/principles).
    • The Distributed AI Research Institute - The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech's pervasive influence.
    • Omidyar Network: Responsible Technology - 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.
    • Tethix - "Tech ethics that makes you smile".
    • Foxglove - 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.
    • ACM SIGCAS - the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group that addresses the social and ethical consequences of widespread computer usage.
    • The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy - an independent team of researchers at the University of Cambridge who are radically rethinking the power relationships between digital technologies, society, and our planet.
    • ACM SIGCAS - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group that addresses the social and ethical consequences of widespread computer usage.
    • Tethix - "Tech ethics that makes you smile".
    • Omidyar Network: Responsible Technology - 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.
    • The Ada Lovelace Institute - An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.

  • Media

    • Tech Won't Save Us podcast - 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 beyond the confines of the capitalist tech industry, to consider how we can dismantle oppressive technologies, and how technology can be developed for the public good.
    • Ethics and Data Science report - Practical ways for making ethical data standards part of your work every day. Available to [read online for free](https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/0636920203964/).
    • Machine Ethics Podcast - Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and society.

  • Education

  • Company-specific

    • Amazonians: We Won't Build It - "Amazon workers calling for accountability and transparency in the tech we build. "
    • Googlers for Human Rights
    • @githubbers - GitHub workers, demanding that GitHub management cancel the ICE contract.
    • Microsoft Workers 4 Good - "Our mission is to empower every worker to hold Microsoft accountable to their stated values".
    • Amazonians: We Won't Build It - "Amazon workers calling for accountability and transparency in the tech we build."
    • Googlers for Human Rights
    • @githubbers - GitHub workers, demanding that GitHub management cancel the ICE contract.
    • Microsoft Workers 4 Good - "Our mission is to empower every worker to hold Microsoft accountable to their stated values".
    • Amazon Employees for Climate Justice - Amazon employees applying pressure on Amazon to redefine what it means to be a responsible company in the era of the climate crisis.
    • No Tech For Apartheid - 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 [No Azure for Apartheid](https://noazureforapartheid.com)).
    • No Tech for ICE - fighting against the tech corporations fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state.
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