🌟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⤵️ https://t.co/vGIvYkONyD
Deep sea cables are critical to understanding how amassing power through internet infrastructure works. This piece by Tanay Mahindru is a must-read: https://t.co/qNzHDeOzHt
📢 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.
https://t.co/i1CW9LrHLN
📢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.
https://t.co/WYUv91zy9L
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👇
https://t.co/EWia7T8iuW
🇺🇳@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: https://t.co/rojNfZtKKf
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 😆 🌍 🛰
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 --> https://t.co/5CpvdTVLgJ
TOMORROW: Join @lindymedic on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data // Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> https://t.co/jkDq8iY2Ny
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 --> https://t.co/jkDq8iY2Ny
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 --> https://t.co/NanTSufne2
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 --> https://t.co/jkDq8iY2Ny
Huge thanks to @akrishnan23 for joining us @HHI today! If you missed our live talk, never fear - it's recorded + available free https://t.co/p2l84uBBoJ