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The Signal Code

@_SignalCode

Launched from @HHI to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of data + tech during humanitarian and human rights crisis.

The Signal Code reposted

🌟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-in-re…

humdata's tweet image. 🌟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-in-re…

The Signal Code reposted

@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…

PollicyOrg's tweet image. @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…

Remembering how the Internet is based in physical infrastructure = 98% of “oh $/!+” insights re data insecurity.

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…



The Signal Code reposted

📢 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-bet…


Sometimes you save the article to read later. Sometimes you hit “print” immediately. This is the latter. Don’t miss it —>

📢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/view/n…

mer__edith's tweet image. 📢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/view/n…


The Signal Code reposted

Honored to kickoff the launch of the Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform next week w/ @safiyanoble @nseufot @stevenrenderos @JacquieSMason @CarmenScurato to galvanize action around tech reforms centering civil rights, transparency & privacy. This is big, y’all! RSVP 👇

AttorneyNora's tweet image. Honored to kickoff the launch of the Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform next week w/ @safiyanoble @nseufot @stevenrenderos @JacquieSMason @CarmenScurato to galvanize action around tech reforms centering civil rights, transparency & privacy. This is big, y’all! RSVP 👇

The Signal Code reposted

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/eightee…

MoveDemocracy's tweet image. 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/eightee…

The Signal Code reposted

🇺🇳@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-data-…

stucampo's tweet image. 🇺🇳@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-data-…

Website status: running updates, reorganizing content, chasing ferrets out of cupboards. We'll be back online soon.


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


<bounces in seat> 15 min, 15 min til the webinar....

🔴 LIVE IN 1 HOUR 🔴 Webinar on geoanalytics for humanitarian health. There's still time to RSVP now! buff.ly/3ppom7l



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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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


TOMORROW: Join @lindymedic on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data // Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> buff.ly/3jCb6rF


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


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


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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