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awesome-tech-ethics-resources
Awesome list of resources for mitigating and avoiding the potential negative effects of technology on society
https://github.com/sampart/awesome-tech-ethics-resources
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Toolkits
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Tarot Cards of Tech - a set of questions designed to help creators more fully consider the impact of technology.
- 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."
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Media
- Machine Ethics Podcast - Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and society.
- 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/).
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Organisations
- Tethix - "Tech ethics that makes you smile".
- 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.
- Center for Humane Technology - envisioning a world with technology that respects our attention, improves our well-being, and strengthens communities.
- 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.
- ACM SIGCAS - the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group that addresses the social and ethical consequences of widespread computer usage.
- 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.
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Education
- Ethics, Technology + Public Policy for Practitioners - an online course from Stanford University covering the ethical and social challenges that the technology sector faces throughout product and operational decision-making.
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Company-specific
- Amazonians: We Won't Build It - "Amazon workers calling for accountability and transparency in the tech we build. "
- Googlers for Human Rights
- Microsoft Workers 4 Good - "Our mission is to empower every worker to hold Microsoft accountable to their stated values".
- @githubbers - GitHub workers, demanding that GitHub management cancel the ICE contract.
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