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The Digital Has Been Around for a While
Senior Fellow Nelly Y Pinkrah published an article about what “digital” means and its relation to race. She reimagines the digital, allowing for new connections between media, technology, and race to be examined.
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Programmed inequality
Senior Fellow Nelly Y. Pinkrah recently published an article about how algorithms can adopt human prejudices. The failure to take into account system-related racism has led to technological mishaps, leading to unintentional racism.
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Bundestag is being sued
Senior Fellow and network journalist Arne Semsrott works for a transparency agency and they are suing against the parliament, because they do not publish the decision of the council of elders. In March 2018 the council of elders decided to build a trench around the German parliament building.
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COVID-19 emergency fund for undocumented and international students
Together with the Rutgers-Camden Define American Chapter team, Humanity in Action Fellow Melani Cruz Stokes created a fund to help undocumented/DACAmented and international students who are excluded from receiving assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We thank the members of our Admissions Committee for the Landecker Democracy Fellowship
We thank the members of our Admissions Committee for the Landecker Democracy Fellowship 2020/21. From August 3 to September 28, 2020 members of the Admissions Committee read over 260 applications and interviewed more than 90 finalists.
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Nakeema Stefflbauer
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Explore the 2020 Copenhagen Fellowship's Open Events
This year the Copenhagen Fellowship 2020 focused on Denmark's relation to Greenland and the Faeroe Islands. Using a Human Rights lens we dove deep into the pressing realities of this often overlooked region and Denmark's role in shaping it. During the Fellowship, we hosted four open events where the Copenhagen public was invited to discuss related topics with our Fellows. All events tried to untangle the complex issues related to the Unity of the Realm, as well as understand what civic engagement and action means in 2020.
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Five Ways Telecommunications Companies Can Fight Internet Shutdowns
From telemedicine and online education to Zoom weddings and funerals, people rely on digital technologies like never before. And yet governments around the world continue to order internet and mobile network disruptions. These disruptions range from the yearlong blackout in Jammu and Kashmir, where connectivity is still being restored in dribs and drabs, to recent disruptions in response to unrest in Ethiopia and protests in Belarus.
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Wikipedia’s new entry on 2018 Polish disability protest
Patching gaps in Wiki-knowledge! We are proud to present Wikipedia’s new entry on the 2018 Polish disability protest, entirely created by this year’s Humanity in Action Poland’s Fellows.
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The influence of (gender) stereotypes on our gender (identity)
Senior Fellow Daniel Busacca Dolleo developed a workshop where they discuss the impact that gender has on our identity & therefore of who we are.
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The Digital Has Been Around for a While
Senior Fellow Nelly Y Pinkrah published an article about what “digital” means and its relation to race. She reimagines the digital, allowing for new connections between media, technology, and race to be examined.
-
Programmed inequality
Senior Fellow Nelly Y. Pinkrah recently published an article about how algorithms can adopt human prejudices. The failure to take into account system-related racism has led to technological mishaps, leading to unintentional racism.
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Bundestag is being sued
Senior Fellow and network journalist Arne Semsrott works for a transparency agency and they are suing against the parliament, because they do not publish the decision of the council of elders. In March 2018 the council of elders decided to build a trench around the German parliament building.
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COVID-19 emergency fund for undocumented and international students
Together with the Rutgers-Camden Define American Chapter team, Humanity in Action Fellow Melani Cruz Stokes created a fund to help undocumented/DACAmented and international students who are excluded from receiving assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We thank the members of our Admissions Committee for the Landecker Democracy Fellowship
We thank the members of our Admissions Committee for the Landecker Democracy Fellowship 2020/21. From August 3 to September 28, 2020 members of the Admissions Committee read over 260 applications and interviewed more than 90 finalists.
-
Nakeema Stefflbauer
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Explore the 2020 Copenhagen Fellowship's Open Events
This year the Copenhagen Fellowship 2020 focused on Denmark's relation to Greenland and the Faeroe Islands. Using a Human Rights lens we dove deep into the pressing realities of this often overlooked region and Denmark's role in shaping it. During the Fellowship, we hosted four open events where the Copenhagen public was invited to discuss related topics with our Fellows. All events tried to untangle the complex issues related to the Unity of the Realm, as well as understand what civic engagement and action means in 2020.
-
Five Ways Telecommunications Companies Can Fight Internet Shutdowns
From telemedicine and online education to Zoom weddings and funerals, people rely on digital technologies like never before. And yet governments around the world continue to order internet and mobile network disruptions. These disruptions range from the yearlong blackout in Jammu and Kashmir, where connectivity is still being restored in dribs and drabs, to recent disruptions in response to unrest in Ethiopia and protests in Belarus.
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Wikipedia’s new entry on 2018 Polish disability protest
Patching gaps in Wiki-knowledge! We are proud to present Wikipedia’s new entry on the 2018 Polish disability protest, entirely created by this year’s Humanity in Action Poland’s Fellows.
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The influence of (gender) stereotypes on our gender (identity)
Senior Fellow Daniel Busacca Dolleo developed a workshop where they discuss the impact that gender has on our identity & therefore of who we are.