Humane Tech Community #41
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Our team represents the Humane Tech Community (founded by The Center for Humane Technology). |
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More information:Our community announcement describes mission, vision, principles and philosophy in more detail. It presents the methodology and breakdown structure we have defined, called The Pyramids of Humane Technology. Read our public announcement: Become a Builder ❤️ Help Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and SocietyWe also changed our forum header to represent the vision we work towards:
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Humane Tech Community Open Canvas(Note: As we work in the open we have published the canvas to our community) Summary'Product'ProblemsOur embracing of exponential technology innovations that put profit over people are causing us increasing harms that we are unaware of, or feel powerless to change. These harms affect:
SolutionsWe educate people, creating awareness on how tech harms affect them and what they can do to mitigate or entirely avoid them. We actively collect, create and improve solutions in cooperation with many partners and we will then promote them to the broader public - our audience - and stimulate their widespread use. These solutions, when technological in nature, are called humane technology. Key metrics
Key resourcesResources needed for a MVP:
CommunityUnique Value PropositionHumane Tech Community is unique, because of:
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That's a nice vision. I know some webdev, so I hope I can help as a technical volunteer. |
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Thank you for offering your help, @mrpandey. |
Writing a README.mdRegarding Sylabus section 2.2: We do not have a README as such, but the crafting of our message is part of a larger community reorganization that already began before we joined OL7. Our current README can be considered the aforementioned forum announcement of Mission / Vision and Community principles: Become a Builder ❤️ Help Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and Society We have created a breakdown structure and methodology that we'll use as an analogy to take community members along an exciting journey from awareness of the harms of technology to actively working on providing solutions, with a very optimistic and positive mindset. The Methodology which we are developing to introduce Humane Technology to the wider world - and which will constitute our 'README' - is called 'The Pyramids of Humane Technology', and our members then are pyramid builders. Here is the diagram that shows the 4 pyramids, and how they are connected to form a larger structure - yet again a pyramid:
Having Ubiquitous Humane Technology Allows Humans to Flourish and Humanity to Thrive |
Draft roadmapImportant guidelines:
Most important is to not fall into previous trap:
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My Vision Stand preparation notesAs part of the Cohort B meeting of Week 6 I used Mozilla's guidance document for the Vision Stand presenation and feedback sessions and prepared these answers to the orientation questions: OUR VISION STAND ADDRESSESWhat we plan to create as community leaders in the next 10 monthsThe next 10 months we will be building a comprehensive community organization for the Humane Tech Community (HTC) that is based on our new Mission and Vision and built around the concept of 'The Pyramids of Humane Technology': Our strategic framework that helps make the huge subject area of Humane Technology manageable and scalable for the broad member base and audience that we serve. The organization structure is based on a community website, a discussion forum, a github organization with multiple repositories for our crowdsourced community projects and a set of social media channels. Our activities will be divided into programs, starting with an Awareness Program, Solutions Program and Partnership Program. The foundations of these programs will be well laid out, and at least the CHT partner relationship is well-defined, i.e. the relationship between our community and The Center for Humane Technology. The vision of what will be so, if we are successful in our workThe preparation in these 10 months will lead to a HTC that is uniquely positioned to be a central hub, a communication intermediary, for all meaningful innovation in the emerging field of Humane Technology. Our marketing, promotion and PR efforts, and the relationship to CHT will ensure that we become a primary source for anyone who searches for information in any of the important subject areas that are covered by Humane Technology, from where they can drill-down deeper. At this stage we should offer an archive of invaluable information and have a very attractive story to tell our visitors. One that attracts and entices many people to actively cooperate and participate in our activities. Our positive and optimistic approach and the philosophy of contributing being fun and rewarding is instrumental in that. Finally, if we indeed reached the level of success outlined here, we'll be able to make an informed decision on whether (and how) we can become an incorporated community that is funded and may even have employees working at the community's core. VISION STAND PREPARATION NOTESWhat will be so in 5/10/20 years time? What is your overall BIG vision?Humane Technology will no longer be a term that needs explanation. Instead humane technology will be the norm and its application will be common practice, just like product design, UX, testing, etc. Our community will be authoritative and leading in this field, and many of our members will be recognized experts of Humane Technology. Why is this important to you? What is in it for you? For others?We are at a point in time where the Harms of Technology pose serious threats to human development and the future of mankind. The growing problems that are inherent in current technology innovation need to be urgently addressed to make sure that technology will serve people in the future and that we are not subjugated to it instead. This in itself is already a huge motivation to get involved in our cause. But other than that we all know that modern technology holds enormous promises to humanity, if applied correctly. Technology can stimulate human flourishing and make humanity thrive. By giving rise to positive technology trends, lending a helping hand in our community, enormous rewards can be gained for our members who will be explorers and early adopters of new and exciting insights. The rewards that one reaps are different for any member and depends on personal ambition, creativity and co-creation with many other inspring people. What are 2-3 key activities or critical points we should know about your vision?The most important thing is that not acting now and with urgency will most probably lead humanity to a very dark place. This is not only true for participation in the Humane Tech Community but applies universally. Our community is merely one of thousands of other worthwhile initiatives. We are building pyramids - The Pyramids of Humane Technology - and our community is but one team of many cooperating other teams. Only with concerted effort and true spirit of cooperation will we be truly successful in the long run. What is the difference your vision will make for you, your community, (the world)?Our vision offers a positive path forward. A path onwards that we can tread with optimism instead of the dread of doom and gloom that is the 'motivating' factor of many other like-minded initiatives. An approach that will lead us towards a bright future. |
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My vision stand It’s urgent, we have to act now. The bad effects of harmful design and use of digital connected technologies are everywhere around us. We can see them in how younger generations are growing up for example: their progressive loss of speculative reasoning and critical thinking, as well as spoken language skills, social and body-mind coordination skills. All this caused mainly by lack of real world interactions and activities. Small and big tech companies are making a lot of money exploiting people for commercial purposes, attracting them and distracting them to time consuming and also happiness consuming apps. Those apps aim to gather users’ time and data, as much as they can, leveraging any kind of AI algorithms and insights. They act in the vacuum of sensibility, knowledge and proper regulations from public opinion and national and international authorities. We as HTC don’t want to focus on the negative aspects though. We have a positive spirit and a solution oriented mentality. HTC will be the reference point - like a hub - for humane technology campaigns centered on awareness about the harms of the current use of digital connected technologies and - most of all - proposing solutions leading to different technology products and services, that come with a humane design, more aligned to human beings’ needs and long term aspirations. Such technologies will be applied to help people achieve their own goals in life. Success of an app will be measured in terms of how much that app reached its main goal, that is to improve users’ life. More practically, as HTC we want to achieve:
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The guidelines for contributors are published on our community forum: https://community.humanetech.com/t/contribution-guidelines/2760/1 |
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We have been working on a code of conduct; you can see the latest version here. https://github.com/humanetech-community/engagement-ideas/blob/master/ongoing/code-of-conduct.md |
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POP of our event for the Mozilla Sprint: Humane Tech CommunityPurpose:
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Public HTC vision presentation@micheleminno:It’s urgent, we have to act now. The damages of addictive harmful technologies are everywhere around us. We can see them in how kids are growing up: they lack in speculative reasoning, critical thinking, spoken and non-verbal language skills, body-mind coordination. Glued to their phones, they basically lack meaningful empathic real world interactions and experiences. Tech companies are making money redirecting our attention, attracting and distracting us to their time and happiness consuming apps. They leverage the most advanced AI and neuroscience in order to extract our own private behavioral data and resell them as aggregated comprehensive profiles. And all this happening in the vacuum of public opinion sensibility and knowledge, with no proper regulations by both national and international authorities. We don’t want to focus on the negative side though. We aim to be the reference point - gathering people and partners worldwide - for creative awareness campaigns about the harms of those addictive apps and technologies, but - most of all - proposing and guiding to solutions: new apps coming with a humane purpose and design, aligned with our own needs and long term aspirations, evaluated by us for what they bring into our lives. @patmatsu:Michele Minno and I are moderators for the Humane Tech Community and members of its community team, a group that decides on policy and content matters. The Humane Tech Community—or HTC as we call it—consists of about twenty-five hundred members from many walks of life: medicine, entertainment, science, business, education, the arts, and so on. It was founded a year ago by the Center for Humane Technology. We are concerned about the interference of big tech companies in the everyday choices we make. The community team is organizing the membership to carry out public awareness campaigns that address such dangers. For us, this is an issue that involves human rights, freedoms, and autonomy. Shoshana Zuboff's book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism urges us to act with conviction and clarity. |
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@patmatsu when do we want to schedule our sprint event? |
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Well, I think maybe mid-May? When does your school semester end?
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Ok for mid-May (schools here close in June). |
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All right. And what about our presentation next week? What should I be doing?
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I think we will do a presentation with some slides (or showing the forum and the website). So I can share my screen and talk for one minute. Then I keep sharing my screen and you go on with your part. It's simpler in this way, also @jonatoni suggested to do like this. Next days I'll do some slides on canva.com |
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Ok no slides, we will show the forum and the website while talking. |
Project Lead: aschrijver, patmatsu, micheleminno
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