Hi everyone!
I hope your pumpkin spice latte season has started off well.
Please don’t judge me; I do like PSLs. 🤷🏾♀️
They’re pretty much the only coffee drink I have as Lady Grey tea is my primary caffeinated drink of choice.
With that said, I hope you’re enjoying the autumn season and are staying safe.
An ask: please share our events. It really helps us with spreading the word. Thanks in advance!
Also, if you know anyone who is interested in technology and social impact, feel free to forward this and nudge them to join!
Upcoming SFTech4Good Events
The Future of Work
Oct 25 - 26 starting at 9 am on the 25th
We are in the midst of a paradigm shift where virtual meeting platforms, work flexibility, equity, and team happiness are the key factors shaping the future of the nonprofit workspace.
Join TechSoup for an online conference about the tools and techniques needed to create resilient and sustainable organizations for social change.
Kai Williams, one of our Data Equity Workshop facilitators, is one of the speakers! Her session is on Internalizing Data Equity in Nonprofit Operations.
Learn more and RSVP here.
Fall Social with LA Tech4Good and Women in Big Data SoCal
November 3 at 7 pm
Save the date! We're partnering with Women in Big Data SoCal for an in-person Fall Social event in LA.
Details are here, so please click over to learn more about the details and RSVP!
Note: Because of the upheaval in Iran over the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Women Of MENA In Technology's Annual Conference has been postponed. Please head to their event page or website. We hope they’re able to update soon. Here is some information on what’s happening and ways to support here and here.
Resources
Take NTEN’s Data Empowerment survey
Data is connected to many conversations about technology, programs, evaluation, and planning for nonprofit staff. In 2020, they conducted a survey to explore where there were trends, opportunities, or challenges for staff collecting and using data strategically in their work. How did they collect data, who had access to it, and how was it used in decision-making or budgeting?
Box Impact Fund
Box just announced the second year of its Impact Fund! There are six grants available, each in the amount of $25K
Head here for more info! The deadline to apply is November 1, 2022, with grantees announced on December 6, 2022.
Bay Area Scholarships Available for Digital Marketing Conference
NTEN is partnering with the Hewlett Foundation to offer 12 in-person and 20 virtual scholarships to the Boot Camp 2022: Infinite Iteration Conference, November 3–4, 2022. The 2022 Digital Marketing for the Arts Scholarship will cover the costs of registration, travel, and hotel accommodations for the conference being held at the SVA Theatre in New York City (and virtually) this fall. Bay Area art-based organizations seeking to improve their digital marketing and leadership skills, this is the conference for you!
EveryoneOn’s 10-Year Anniversary!
Please congratulate our friends at EveryoneOn on their 10-year anniversary, celebrating a decade of advancing digital equity in communities across the country.
They help unlock social and economic opportunity by connecting people in underserved communities to affordable internet service and computers and providing digital skills training.
Since 2012, they’ve helped to:
• Connect more than 1,000,000 people to the internet
• Provide 5,000+ computers
• Deliver digital skills training to hundreds of participants in the past two years
New Report: The State of Digital Equity: Read the final report in a 3-part series on broadband adoption among low- and lower-middle-income households during the pandemic.
AI and the Majority World
The histories, futures, and opinions of the majority of people have been written out of the story of AI systems and their impacts. Data & Society’s latest publication, A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World: An Empirical Site and a Standpoint, offers a corrective. A curated collection of over 160 thematic works, the publication explores ways to think about data and AI in regions outside North America and Europe. It offers unique perspectives to investigate and understand the diverse ethics, politics, and everyday experiences of living with these technologies. Like the term “majority world” itself, the primer defines a community in terms of what it has, rather than what it lacks.
The product of deep collaboration between D&S program director and principal researcher Sareeta Amrute, researcher Ranjit Singh, and senior producer Rigoberto Lara Guzmán, they’re releasing the primer in both English and Spanish. This resource is a start: They hope those who read and commit to it will take the next, very material steps toward repair, redistribution, and remaking.
The End!
That’s a wrap!
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