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🚨NEW WEBSITE NOW LIVE 🚨
Today the Center released “Cop Out: Automation in the Criminal Legal System,” which explores the ways algorithmic technologies increasingly inform decisions made in the criminal legal system. copout.tech
ALT Artistic depiction of a person being scanned by a police officer. The person stands wearing a red shirt and blue pants surrounded by a red box that connects back to a police officer in all black.
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"In 2014, Detroit was ranked as the country’s worst connected city — around 60% of people didn’t have a connection that met the min. definition of broadband, and 40% had no internet at all."
@DetCommTech, nabes banded together.
2023: Broken #sidewalks
99percentinvisible.org/episo…
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ALTERNATIVES TO POLICING II - Panel Discussion
Next Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 6:30pm
FREE live + virtual event
ONLINE: Register to attend on zoom here buff.ly/3VpRVWI
IN-PERSON: Wayne Law's Partrich Auditorium - 471 W. Palmer, Detroit 48202
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For 7 years, @DetCommTech has built networks providing free/low-cost internet to underserved residents in #Detroit.
We're supporting the project with a grant to help reduce reliance on philanthropic funds while sustainably growing its impact.
Learn more:
connecthumanity.fund/how-con…
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Got 5 mins to read about some #DigitalEquity heroes?
Melissa Huerta (@melechuga) shares amazing projects from @thenterprisectr, @DetCommTech, and Boyd Stephens — and outlines how our grants support broadband expansion.
connecthumanity.fund/how-con…
"Facial recognition is a racist technology that is being used in our neighborhoods to invade privacy, surveil, and criminalize." - Rep. Tlaib
metrotimes.com/news/tlaib-an…
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The internet remains unequal w/ its content skewed towards European colonial languages & their written forms.
As a step in resisting digital colonialism, today we launch the #InternationalSign translation of our #InternetsLanguages summary report ✊🏾
internetlanguages.org/en/int…
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Heads up! We'll be at #NetInclusion23 next week hosted by NDIA. Our Director @MBTintheD will speak on 'Engaging Lived Experts in Digital Equity Planning & Research'. Hope to see familiar faces there! sched.co/1B326
@netinclusion #digitalequity #communitytech
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Looking forward to giving this workshop with @turtlishcbiruk & @Stephaniehatzi in #montreal on the 10th. Thanks to @AtwaterLibrary and @ACT_Concordia for organizing. Grateful to @DetCommTech for inspiration and tools to guide our thinking of living in data.
📅EVENT: Workshop: How We Live With Data
Come and explore the relationship between older adults, data, and digital technologies!
Fri Feb 10
1-5pm, HYBRID
Organized by @ACT_Concordia and the Atwater Library.
Honored that @DuckDuckGo chose to support our work among so many other amazing orgs working to make the internet accessible, autonomous, and safe 💕.
#GigabitDetroit
#Internet4All
spreadprivacy.com/2022-duckd…
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I’m honored to release a new report with @GeorgetownCPT “A Forensic Without the Science: Face Recognition in U.S. Criminal Investigations” 1/n
forensicwithoutscience.org/
THIS IS BIG NEWS & A BIG WIN. The Community Input over Government Surveillance Ordinance came out of the fight against FRT. Using it to sue over ShotSpotter is a WIN and result of many folks resistance to #SurveillanceTech
#SurveillanceAintSafety
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5 hours and $180 left!
Only 7 hours left to raise $300 and win an additional $5k! Will you donate whatever you can or share this with your people?
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#Internet4All
#GigabitDetroit
"We already know huge portions of the country aren’t getting broadband speeds — but even where they are, those connections are often bogged down by limited options, predatory billing practices, and a general lack of choice."
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Only 7 hours left to raise $300 and win an additional $5k! Will you donate whatever you can or share this with your people?
#CommunityTech
#Internet4All
#GigabitDetroit
Please help us celebrate 10 years of Digital Stewardship by raising $10K for our Equitable Internet Initiative partner, BLVD Harambee 🎊🎊🎊! Thanks to @MEDC, all donations will be matched up to $5k.
Donate: patronicity.com/internet
Over 70% of the goal has been raised! Help us cross the finish line this #GivingTuesday2022
#GigabitDetroit
#GivingTuesday
Please help us celebrate 10 years of Digital Stewardship by raising $10K for our Equitable Internet Initiative partner, BLVD Harambee 🎊🎊🎊! Thanks to @MEDC, all donations will be matched up to $5k.
Donate: patronicity.com/internet
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Our friends at @DetCommTech are more than halfway to reaching their $5k goal! 💪🔥 Help them get the rest of the way by donating 🔗
Support #communitytech this #GivingTuesday !
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With the fall of #Twitter on the horizon and #GivingTuesday around the corner, consider donating to fund Community Tech projects. This is how a new road is paved and alternatives are created. Let's do it!
patronicity.com/internet
With the fall of #Twitter on the horizon and #GivingTuesday around the corner, consider donating to fund Community Tech projects. This is how a new road is paved and alternatives are created. Let's do it!
patronicity.com/internet
We're SOOO close to hitting our goal, but the deadline is in 4 days. If the campaign goal is met then a $5k match is won for a total of $10k raised! Please help us by donating and sharing this around 🎊
#GigabitDetroit
#Internet4All
