The Signal Code

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

[OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data @humdata]

🌟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

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

@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

🔗https://t.co/2abL1TlSCX

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu]

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

[Stuart Campo @stucampo]

📢 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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

Sometimes you save the article to read later. Sometimes you hit “print” immediately.

This is the latter. Don’t miss it —>

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📢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

[World Movement @MoveDemocracy]

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

[Stuart Campo @stucampo]

🇺🇳@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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

@paulcurrion @GiulioWolfe @newhumanitarian @ICRC @ViGrNa @massimomarelli @EngnRoom @zararah @seanmmcdonald @HHI @nattyray11 That’s more like it 👍

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

Website status: running updates, reorganizing content, chasing ferrets out of cupboards.

We'll be back online soon.

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

There’s only a couple of seats left in our winter course on Humanitarian Geospatial Analytics + Tech! Don’t miss out —> https://t.co/FcMtZ6j0UX

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[Harvard Humanitarian Initiative @HHI]

🔴 LIVE IN 1 HOUR 🔴 Webinar on geoanalytics for humanitarian health. There's still time to RSVP now! https://t.co/fCG1x7edNV

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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 😆 🌍 🛰

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

TOMORROW: Join @lindymedic on Critical Cartography: the subjectivity, politics and power of spatial data // Nov 5, 11:00 ET --> https://t.co/jkDq8iY2Ny

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

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

[The Signal Code @_SignalCode]

Starting in 30min: @akrishnan23 + @CaitlinHowarth talk humanitarian ethics, tech, and digital decolonization --> https://t.co/BGEDqrQP2Z