[Pal-dc] Tech & Social Good: Please Help Me Collect Resources

[Carol Priestley]

Hi Yosem,

Might the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of 
Washington be able to help - tascha at uw.edu <mailto:tascha at uw.edu>

Best,

Carol

Carol Priestley
Network for Information and Digital Access (NIDA) <http://www.nida-net.org>

On 01/11/2018 05:07, Yosem Companys wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know whether there's a collection of all syllabi and 
> readings on technology and social good (or public good or social 
> change)? If such a collection doesn't exist, could you help me create 
> one?
>
> The readings can be from any discipline, seminal or not, and academic 
> or not. I'd like to get cross-cultural readings, so we have 
> representation of diverse perspectives from around the world.
>
> For the Stanford Program for Liberation Technology, I once made a list 
> of all the topics on social good that I found on Twitter that 
> intersected with technology. These included the following:
>
>   * Accountability, Corruption, Openness, and Transparency (e.g., Open
>     Data, Freedom of Information - FOI)
>   * Activism, Protests, and Movements (e.g., Occupy, Anonymous,
>     Hacktivism)
>   * Agriculture, Farming, and Food Security (e.g., eAgri, Fishing,
>     Mariculture, Aquaponics, Aquaculture)
>   * Censorship, Repression, and Freedom (e.g., Freedom of Expression -
>     FoE, Free Speech, NetFreedom, Right to Information - RTI)
>   * Construction, Housing, and Real Estate (e.g., Smart Homes,
>     Internet of Things)
>   * Democracy, Politics, Elections, and Voting (e.g., Netroots, Tea
>     Party, eVoting)
>   * Development (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for
>     Development - ICT4D, Tech for Development - Tech4Dev, Global
>     Development - GlobalDev)
>   * Economics (e.g., Participatory Economy, Peer-to-Peer Economy, Commons)
>   * Education (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for
>     Education - ICT4E, Open Education, eLearning, MOOCs)
>   * Energy and Power (e.g., Microgrids)
>   * Entrepreneurship (e.g., Social Entrepreneurship - socent, Social
>     Innovation)
>   * Environment (e.g., Brownfields, Landfills, Superfund Sites,
>     Climate Change, and Land, Water, and Air Preservation)
>   * Finance (e.g., Microfinance, FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies)
>   * Governance (e.g., eGovernance - eGov, Open Governance - OpenGov,
>     Governance 2.0 - gov20)
>   * Health (e.g., eHealth, mHealth, Telemedicine)
>   * Human rights
>   * Manufacturing (e.g., Additive Technologies, 3D Printing,
>     Do-It-Yourself - DIY, Robotics)
>   * Media (e.g., Journalism, Social Media)
>   * Organizing and Organizations (e.g., Nonprofits, Community-Based
>     Organizations, Cooperatives, Labor Unions)
>   * Physical Spaces and Locations (e.g., Libraries, Coworking Spaces,
>     Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, Tool Sharing Libraries, Smart
>     Cities, Mapping)
>   * Policy and Law (e.g., Policy Innovations, Legal Innovations)
>   * Privacy (e.g., Rules, Regulations, Laws, Frameworks)
>   * Resilience During Conflicts, Natural Disasters, and Other Crises
>     (e.g., Crisis Mapping; Robotics)
>   * Security, Physical or Cyber
>   * Social Science (e.g., Impact of Technology on Society)
>   * Transportation and Supply Chain on Land, Water, and Air (e.g.,
>     Hyperloop, Autonomous Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Drones,
>     Smart Roads)
>   * Volunteering (e.g., Crowdsourcing, Participatory Mapping)
>   * Water Security (e.g., Watersheds, Water Purification)
>
> The list above isn't meant to be exhaustive, so please feel free to 
> suggest other forms of grouping topics or let me know if I missed an 
> important topic or hashtag.
>
> I truly appreciate your help and advice, and I look forward to hearing 
> from you soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Yosem
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