Proposals for Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference 2023, Atlanta, GA February 24, 2023. Plan now.

 

BEMA International support D4BL. From its inception, the present, and future. What is D4BL?

 

Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. Since the advent of computing, big data and algorithms have penetrated virtually every aspect of our social and economic lives. These new data systems have tremendous potential to empower communities of color. Tools like statistical modeling, data visualization, and crowd-sourcing, in the right hands, are powerful instruments for fighting bias, building progressive movements, and promoting civic engagement.

But history tells a different story, one in which data is too often wielded as an instrument of oppression, reinforcing inequality and perpetuating injustice. Redlining was a data-driven enterprise that resulted in the systematic exclusion of Black communities from key financial services. More recent trends like predictive policing, risk-based sentencing, and predatory lending are troubling variations on the same theme. Today, discrimination is a high-tech enterprise.

https://d4bl.org/   Black Emergency Managers Association International Washington, D.C.

bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our ancestors, our children, and the unborn. — Amilcar Cabra

D4BL (Data For Black Lives). No Humans Involved. September 2022

 

	Sep 14, 2022

No Humans Involved

This morning/ 5:30 pm Riyadh time, I am scheduled to speak at the Saudi Global AI Summit, the exclusive gathering of AI leaders from around the world. My panel is entitled “AI Through the Lens of Equality” where I will be joined, perhaps not coincidentally, by all-women co-panelists. I initially agreed to participate months ago because I saw the event as an opportunity to speak honestly and candidly to an audience of more than 3,000 researchers, scientists, policymakers, and world leaders about algorithmic violence and D4BL’s work. We also wanted to gather information on the ground to better grasp the geopolitical implications of Big Tech’s role in the Middle East. With Google opening two new headquarters in Saudi Arabia and the US Military’s announcement of the construction of a new Pentagon testing site in the Saudi desert, I wanted to investigate the implication of these developments on our ongoing work to end data weapons at home. But this morning/ tonight, I will not be speaking as planned. Nor will I be in attendance. On August 26, 2022, news broke that Salma al Shehab, a Saudi citizen and current Ph.D. student at Leeds University was sentenced to 34 years in prison for speaking out on Twitter (which is co-owned by the Kingdom) about the treatment of women. When a coalition of activists led by SumofUs called for a boycott of the summit last week, we knew that the best way for us to influence the conversation was with our absence, not our presence...

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Community Foundation of Tompkins County invites applications for Resilient Communities grant program Posted: September 14, 2022 Deadline: October 12, 2022

RFP alert

Community Foundation of Tompkins County invites applications for Resilient Communities grant program

Posted: September 14, 2022
Deadline: October 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. ET
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded as unrestricted support to organizations that meet community needs in New York’s Tompkins County....