Re: [liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-23 Thread Tanya Rabourn
Harnidh, I think you’ll find a number of examples from financial inclusion projects that change the “gears of existing/incumbent technology” (specifically fintech) “to specifically serve vulnerable populations.” For example, I was involved in a project to adapt mobile money so that Village

Re: [liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-23 Thread Jayne Cravens
> From: HARNIDH KAUR > > I don't think most of you know this, but I work in the development space > and we're always trying to find cool ways to make tech make the world > better. I've been trying to read up more about the same. So, here. > > Is 'kind technology' a thing?

Re: [liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-12 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 06:09:38AM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: Harnidh Kaur > > Is ‘kind technology’ a thing? Where people are trying to change gears of > existing/incumbent technology to specifically serve vulnerable populations? Your best chance I would guess is

Re: [liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-04 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Great insights, Charles! The Association for Computing Machinery is in what look like the final stages of publishing or revising its Code of Ethics, and it has some good teeth on it. Also on an interestingly related topic, I came across this stream: minding energy efficiency of algorithms and

Re: [liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-04 Thread Charles M. Ess
I'm not sure if it's quite in the direction you have in mind, but in Scandinavia and now a bit more broadly in Europe at least, there is a growing tradition of "slow technology" - aimed at helping us slow down rather than always be in the service (enslavement) of greater efficiencies, etc.

Re: [liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-04 Thread Peter Lindener
Dear Harnidh, Yosem- In the close of last chapter of Algorithms to Live By about the challenges and potentials of Game Theoretic Mechanism Design by way of the Revolution Principal

[liberationtech] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-04 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Harnidh Kaur I don’t think most of you know this, but I work in the development space and we’re always trying to find cool ways to make tech make the world better. I’ve been trying to read up more about the same. So, here. Is ‘kind technology’ a thing? Where people are