Rowan Barnett

Venture philanthropy and tech for social good.
Alumni: @Twitter @axelspringer @OrielOxford | Board: @clubofthree
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[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Preserving the memory of Auschwitz, is key to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, which is critical to ensure it never happens again. At Google, we believe technology can play an important role in education and remembrance, and we're very proud to support the Foundation.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

.@Google, a technological partner of the Auschwitz Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, has been recognized as one of the benefactors supporting the educational mission of the Memorial.

Read more: https://t.co/NUbDe6LTYA

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Tune in now to our first Impact Summit - live from Sunnyvale!

[Google.org @Googleorg]

Join us on September 4th for our first ever Impact Summit 🎉 Register to hear some of the top voices in social impact discuss how new technology can help accelerate their work → https://t.co/Yz2Ex9AWho

[Google Europe @googleeurope]

The @GoogleOrg Impact Challenge: Strengthening Democracy in Europe Selection Panel includes leaders from civil society, social impact, & foundations who promote democratic resilience in the region. Learn more about the €15M open call: https://t.co/PcnUtJ5OTW

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Für ein demokratisches Deutschland, und ein demokratisches und friedliches Europa. #Demokratieverteidigen

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Crazy, that only 1.5% of funding goes to all-female teams in Germany vs 92% to all-male teams and only 6.5% to mixed leadership teams. It seems we've made zero progress in this regard over the last ten years, despite many efforts and data. 🤯😔 https://t.co/0bNAVV0mPl

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Making the experience and history of Auschwitz accessible to everyone, everywhere, is key to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. @Googleorg is proud to support Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes, helping to ensure the stories are heard by future generations, and never forgotten.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Google will support the development of the "Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes" project, enabling people from around the world to visit the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with a live guide in an online format. Through $1M in funding and support from https://t.co/em5ZSpKblR, Google’s philanthropic arm, the Memorial will expand education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust to reach people everywhere, including making it accessible to people with disabilities, those in remote areas and unable to travel there.

Read more about @Google support: https://t.co/ImUBTDIgX8

Google's support will help evolve the technological platform and its accessibility, including introducing live captioning, AI-based translation into multiple languages, and the digitization of Survivors' testimonies, which will be used during the tours. It will also include extensive training for guides and expanding the reach of this unique form of visits to multiple communities worldwide, including partnering with schools to increase access for students.

This builds on the long-standing partnership with Google, when the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum worked with Google Arts & Culture to bring important stories of Auschwitz online along with over 700 artifacts from its archive.

The “Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes” project was developed over three years as a cooperation between the Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, and companies such as AppsFlyer, DISKIN, and Orange. In January of this year, visitors began to use the platform.

On 13 May in Warsaw, a discussion took place with the participation of Rowan Barnett, Director of https://t.co/em5ZSpKblR for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz Museum, and Wojciech Soczewica, Director General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. A special guest at the event was Auschwitz Survivor Bogdan Bartnikowski.

More about online guided tours: https://t.co/7f5FqLz6af

[ECIU @ECIU_UK]

Limited UK research shows that annually:

🌬️10,000 - 100,000 birds killed by turbine blade strikes

🐈 55 million birds killed by domestic cats
https://t.co/6lzujUBIuL

🏭 US research: fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds than wind turbines

https://t.co/vH71GWfoFf

[Centre for Public Impact (CPI) @CPI_foundation]

🚀Applications are now open for the @Googleorg AI Opportunity Fund: Europe!

If you’re a nonprofit or civil society organization interested in upskilling underserved communities with AI knowledge & tools, then we want to hear from you.

✅ Apply now: https://t.co/yalgsvaAOE

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Mourning the loss of a truly formidable woman, and friend. Hella was an inspiration to everyone who knew her, a tour de force, who positively impacted so many people. https://t.co/AtEiNAZIkH

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Danke @DuezenTekkal für deine unermüdliche Arbeit und immer glasklaren Worten, Appellen und Warnungen. 🙏🏽

[Düzen Tekkal @DuezenTekkal]

Nein zu #Antisemitismus, Nein zu Muslimfeindlichkeit und Nein zu #Rassismus. Mir ist es ein (Herzens) Bedürfnis jedwede Menschenfeindlichkeit auf den bundesweiten Demonstrationen anzusprechen, sonst ist unsere Kritik unvollständig. Geht bitte weiter demonstrieren. Danke #München.

[Düzen Tekkal @DuezenTekkal]

Nein zu #Antisemitismus, Nein zu Muslimfeindlichkeit und Nein zu #Rassismus. Mir ist es ein (Herzens) Bedürfnis jedwede Menschenfeindlichkeit auf den bundesweiten Demonstrationen anzusprechen, sonst ist unsere Kritik unvollständig. Geht bitte weiter demonstrieren. Danke #München.

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Today we’re announcing €25 million in funding from @Googleorg to support AI training and skills for people across Europe, with a particular focus on vulnerable and underserved communities.

Read more about Google's AI Opportunity Initiative for Europe: https://t.co/iiAWwzIoFs

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

@doriechevlen @TIME Loved this piece, had a good laugh. I had a similar microcosm of a meditation experience. I couldn't get into it as all my head was doing was contemplating how I might escape and making plans to run! :)

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Thinking of my great great grandmothers Adele Weidenfeld and Laura Eisenstein and the millions of others murdered during the Holocaust. Let us remember the atrocities and lessons of the past, and not be blind or indifferent to the warning signs of today. #WeRemember #NeverAgain

[Ahmad Mansour @AhmadMansour__]

Ich muss etwas Wichtiges ansprechen und bitte um Entschuldigung, falls ich damit jemanden verletze.
Überall sehe ich Beiträge zum Internationalen Holocaust-Gedenktag. Politiker und Persönlichkeiten mit "We Remember"-Schildern. Die Geste ist bedeutend, doch ich frage mich, ob das in einem Jahr wie diesem, angesichts der Entwicklungen in Israel und im Westen, ausreicht. Es wirkt wie eine ritualisierte Erinnerungskultur, die keinen Bezug zu aktuellen Ereignissen hat. Eine wahre Erinnerungskultur sollte auch die lebenden Juden einbeziehen – ihre Bedürfnisse, Gefährdungen und Herausforderungen in Israel und hier im Westen.

"#Weremember ist inhaltslos, wenn es nicht daran erinnert, dass Juden in Europa in den letzten Monaten unsicherer geworden sind, ohne das größte Massaker an Juden seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg am 7. Oktober zu erwähnen, ohne die Vernichtungsdrohungen von Iran, Hamas und Islamisten gegen Israel und ohne den entfesselten Hass linksradikaler Akture an Unis in Kunst und Kultur. Unsere Erinnerungskultur steht an einem Scheideweg. Ist es nicht an der Zeit, ritualisierte Gesten hinter uns zu lassen und uns mit unserer Verantwortung auseinanderzusetzen?Relativierung und Verharmlosung dürfen weder die Erinnerung und noch die Betrachtung der Gegenwart prägen!

[tagesthemen @tagesthemen]

"Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass es so kommen würde, denn so hat es damals auch angefangen“, sagt die Holocaust-Überlebende Margot #Friedländer im Gespräch mit den #tagesthemen, über die aktuellen antisemitischen Bedrohungen.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

79 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must keep remembering.

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

So heartening to join hundreds of thousands across Germany this weekend out on the streets in solidarity and protest against the far-right, against extremism, and standing up for our open, inclusive and democratic society. Lots of work to do, but there is hope. 🖤❤️💛

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Zehntausende sind in Berlin einig, stehen brüderlich mit Herz und Hand zusammen - gegen Rechtsextremismus, gegen Faschismus, gegen Rassismus, und für unsere Freiheit!
#b2101 #wirsindmehr #gemeinsamgegenrechts

[Rowan Barnett @rowbar]

Similar to the climate crisis, it's deeply alarming to see tipping points on the immediate horizon for our democracies and free societies in Europe and beyond. Here is a clear-eyed analysis and warning by @johnkampfner: https://t.co/Eb4NMuWY9T