Tech & Society: What is Technology for the Public Good?

Publish Date:Juli 2019

Tech & Society: What is Technology for the Public Good? (Webinar 1)

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This webinar kicks-off the Tech & Society series, pioneered by Bertelsmann-Humanity in Action Professional Fellow Nicole Chi (Senior Fellow | Paris 2015). The guest speaker is Greta Byrum, Co-Director of the Digital Equity Lab at the New School.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

  1. Automating Equality by Virginia Eubanks
  2. Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
  3. A People’s Guide to AI by Mother Cyborg and Mimi Onuoha
  4. Our Data Bodies by Tamika Lewis, Tawana Petty, Mariella Saba, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Kim Reynolds
  5. The Cleaners by Sarah Roberts
  6. Memes to Movements by An Xiao Mina
  7. Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

 

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