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3 Mar 2025
Community Tech NY is joining @mediajustice
and others in the Twitter #eXit March 4
The Musk and Tech Broligarchy agenda is to isolate us, surveil us, enrage us, and to push us into hopeless despair, but we are a community. And community is how we fight back.
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
4 Mar 2025
Shout out to our comrades: @commtechny, @Media2070, @openmicmedia, @LaColectiVA703, @BXEAction, @CoalFreeCurtis, @TeamUpturn, and IndivisibleMoCoWoMen, who are joining us in our #eXit TODAY and helping rebuild our movement base on BlueSky!
4 Mar 2025
Goodbye Twitter/X ✌️
Today is the last day we will actively engage with & monitor our account. Thank you to all the partners, allies, & comrades who have helped us build community, action, & visibility in service of creating the media & tech landscape our communities deserve. 🫂
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It's much easier to use apps that support end-to-end encryption than it used to be, but it's still good to know how it works. ssd.eff.org/module/deep-dive…
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
4 Feb 2025
Applications are now open!
The Connecting the Unconnected funding program supports organizations working to build and expand Internet infrastructure to connect people living in rural, remote, and low-income areas.
➡️ Learn more and apply at isoc.pub/CtU
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
11 Oct 2024
Profiting from people’s suffering is vile, Big Tech must do better!
Tech companies have a responsibility to uphold human rights, yet many failed to do so for over a year, contributing to human rights violations atrocities in Gaza. 🧵
ALT One year later: an unfolding genocide and digital rights violations in Gaza. Dystopian, tech-driven horrors aren’t part of some distant future — they’re happening all around us, right now, as you read this! How Israel is using technology to automate human rights abuses and war crimes in Gaza?
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1 Oct 2024
Happy October 🎃 Here's our September newsletter, a review of the month, including two more Portable Network Kit trainings at @elpuentepalante conta.cc/3TNFCnm
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
1 Oct 2024
Last month alone, authorities in three Indian states — Assam, Jharkhand, and Odisha — cut off access to the internet, affecting more than 120 million people!
The world’s largest democracy can no longer be the world’s worst shutdown offender — Indian authorities must #KeepItOn!
30 Sep 2024
India has been a leader in internet shutdowns — by a huge margin — for nearly a decade, according to data shared by digital rights watchdog @accessnow
restofworld.org/2024/india-i…
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1 Oct 2024
This Wednesday!
30 Sep 2024
Coming up this Wednesday!
Join us and @NYCOfficeofTech's Open Data team for a free virtual class in partnership with the Office of @tiffany_caban.🥳
RSVP at nyc.gov/discoveropendata
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5 Sep 2024
"We not only work on building the physical network, but also the personal network, the human network of people that can help and support one another." -Monique Tate
Check out this podcast by @communitynets w/ our co-directors Monique (@MBTintheD) and Raul Enriquez
*🔗 in bio*
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
Hello civic tech and open data fam! Open Data Week is back, and we want to feature NYC’s diverse communities.
Who should we invite to present their work? Tell us! And share our call for proposals with them at < open-data.nyc/ >.
ALT A promotion image with a dark background, repeating text that says "Call for proposals" in multiple colors, and a multicolor megaphone. The bottom righthand side has logos for NYC OTI, BetaNYC, and Data Through Design - the producers of Open Data Week. Learn more at open-data.nyc.
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
5 Sep 2024
It’s been 500 days of terror forced silence for people in Sudan, with little being said and done by the int’l community — fix this now! We continue to demand urgent action; end this collective punishment, reconnect communication, and #KeepItOn.
accessnow.org/press-release/…
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
19 Aug 2024
🌐 Join our Digital Inclusion 101 Webinar on Wed, Aug 21 at 2pm ET!
Perfect for newcomers, we'll cover essentials like key terms, barriers, local solutions, best practices, the Digital Navigator Model, and more. 🖥️
Register here: digitalinclusion.org/event/d…
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19 Aug 2024
✨ Our systems need a hard reset too! ✨
The team at CTNY is taking a break starting today - August 19 - and returning back on September 3.
TY to our community for an impactful summer. We wish everyone much joy and ease.
Donate here! alliedmedia.org/post/donate-…
ALT Deep purple background with lavender stars. In the middle is a white square from a standard browser error message that reads "This site can't be reached. Community Tech NY is disconnecting"
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X is now automatically opting-in users for training Grok. It only takes a second to turn it off. gizmodo.com/how-to-stop-elon…
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
16 Jul 2024
THE ROLE OF THE INTERNET IN NATURAL DISASTERS
🛜 During emergencies, connectivity becomes essential for impacted communities and those involved in emergency response efforts.
Our Resiliency Program offers grants of up to USD$500,000.
➡️ Full article: isoc.pub/3zJVobY
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
23 Jul 2024
📣 LAST WEEK TO APPLY TO THE RESILIENCY GRANT PROGRAM!
🗓️ The application period closes at 21:00 UTC on July 30, 2024.
➡️ Find information and apply at isoc.pub/Resiliency
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Community Tech NY (CTNY) retweeted
29 Jul 2024
Limited Internet access means limited healthcare access. Without it, billions of people are excluded from vital health information and resources.
Learn more about the #DigitalDivide and how #CommunityNetworks are helping to bridge the gap: ow.ly/nLxc50SMqjP
ALT A graphic that reads: The Internet is healthcare.
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16 Jul 2024
love to see you all in action 🤩
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9 Jul 2024
Our deputy director Danny R. Peralta attended #TakeBackTech2024, seeing how our digital justice work is part of a network of many working to fight against Big Tech's control and oppression, towards the broader goal of liberation. Read @Mijente's recap ✨✊
28 Jun 2024
From organizers to tech workers, educators to legal experts, Take Back Tech 2024 was a melting pot of ideas and activism, building on our first 2019 convening in San Jose.
Together, we shaped a tech future free from surveillance & state violence. 🔗
mijente.net/blog/take-back-t…
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9 Jul 2024
How do we shift reliance on major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to more localized community-owned internet access? This is a critical question especially in times of climate crisis.
9 Jul 2024
⚠️ STATEWIDE INTERNET OUTAGE 📶
READ MORE --> bit.ly/3VR473o
Spectrum announced Tuesday afternoon of an outage that is affecting customers across Texas.
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