Launched from @HHI to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of data tech during humanitarian and human rights crisis.
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The Signal Code retweeted
22 Dec 2021
🌟HDX Year in Review for 2021:
-Over 1.3 million unique users
-20 new organizations (298 total)
-2,071 new datasets (18,500 total)
-1.8 million datasets downloaded
❤️Thanks to our community for another great year!
Read more in @JTeran2000's blog⤵️ centre.humdata.org/hdx-year-…
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The Signal Code retweeted
10 Dec 2021
@Internews @safesisters guide offers a common-sense guide to digital safety for women and girls online in sub-saharan Afric. It’s available in several African languages including Swahili!
#16DaysofActivism
#DigitalResourceShareathon
🔗internews.org/wp-content/upl…
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6 Dec 2021
Remembering how the Internet is based in physical infrastructure = 98% of “oh $/! ” insights re data insecurity.
4 Dec 2021
Deep sea cables are critical to understanding how amassing power through internet infrastructure works. This piece by Tanay Mahindru is a must-read: botpopuli.net/digging-deeper…
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The Signal Code retweeted
2 Dec 2021
📢 Data responsibility is a critical issue for the humanitarian system to address.
🆕 Read about system-wide progress on advancing #DataResponsibility in the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022, launched today by the UN and partners.
gho.unocha.org/delivering-be…
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3 Dec 2021
Sometimes you save the article to read later. Sometimes you hit “print” immediately.
This is the latter. Don’t miss it —>
16 Nov 2021
📢New paper! In which I work through a lot of my uncomfortable observations since joining academia, examining the alarming-but-quiet capture of academic AI research by big tech, what this means for how and what we know about AI, and how we can resist.
interactions.acm.org/archive…
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The Signal Code retweeted
1 Dec 2021
Happening tonight! @RonDeibert, director of @citizenlab and author of "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" will give a #LipsetLecture on “Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy” at 6pm EST. @NEDemocracy Sign up to join👇
ned.org/events/eighteenth-an…
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The Signal Code retweeted
22 Nov 2021
🇺🇳@UNOCHA has an important role to play in supporting the @iascch-recommended actions for data responsibility in humanitarian action.
💡Learn more in the OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines: centre.humdata.org/the-ocha-…
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18 Feb 2021
Website status: running updates, reorganizing content, chasing ferrets out of cupboards.
We'll be back online soon.
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18 Dec 2020
There’s only a couple of seats left in our winter course on Humanitarian Geospatial Analytics Tech! Don’t miss out —> HHI.Harvard.edu/hgtw
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19 Nov 2020
<bounces in seat> 15 min, 15 min til the webinar....
19 Nov 2020
🔴 LIVE IN 1 HOUR 🔴 Webinar on geoanalytics for humanitarian health. There's still time to RSVP now! buff.ly/3ppom7l
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12 Nov 2020
Come join us for this ongoing discussion of satellite imagery for remote atrocity warning response. When Caitlin Isaac get going, it’s hard to stop them 😆 🌍 🛰
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5 Nov 2020
It's almost time! Join us at 11:00 ET TODAY to hear @Lindymedic discuss Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data --> buff.ly/31UWzl4
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4 Nov 2020
TOMORROW: Join @lindymedic on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data // Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF
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2 Nov 2020
Tired of doom-scrolling the polls? Take a break register for this week's Critical Cartography webinar w/ @HHI's @Lindymedic, Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF
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30 Oct 2020
It's almost Election Day here in the US, so naturally we're thinking about (checks notes) how to use remote sensing to analyze conflict forecast violent events.
Join us Nov 12, 11:00 ET w/ Isaac Baker, Saira Khan @CaitlinHowarth --> buff.ly/37QCj7S
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29 Oct 2020
If you're into humanitarian ethics tech, join us for next week's session on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, power and politics of spatial data by @Lindymedic, Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF
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29 Oct 2020
Huge thanks to @akrishnan23 for joining us @HHI today! If you missed our live talk, never fear - it's recorded available free youtube.com/watch?v=OcIZrhUo…
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29 Oct 2020
Starting in 30min: @akrishnan23 @CaitlinHowarth talk humanitarian ethics, tech, and digital decolonization --> eventbrite.com/e/humanitaria…
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29 Oct 2020
TODAY 11:00 ET: A discussion about humanitarian ethics digital decolonization w/ @akrishnan23 @CaitlinHowarth
eventbrite.com/e/humanitaria…
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