This special issue of Riverwise Magazine is designed to provide a critical perspective on the controversy swirling around the Mayor’s plans to blanket an already highly surveilled city with more high definition cameras, including traffic lights and facial recognition technologies. Thanks to considerable grassroots organizing and researchers, the effort by city officials to quietly expand a surveillance program that endangers all Detroiters has been brought to light. Detroit Community Technology Project and Our Data Bodies were grateful to contribute to this edition.
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Our Data Bodies (ODB) has conducted research and produced a workbook of popular education activities focused on data, surveillance, and community safety to co-create and share knowledge, analyses, and tools for data justice and data access for equity. We hope that our work will enhance trusted models of community health and safety and help illuminate the differences between being safe and being secure.
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The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) through its coalition member Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP), has joined the growing number of fellow Detroiters concerned or opposed to the controversial expansion of Project Green Light and related facial recognition technologies. It is on this basis that we release our report, "A Critical Summary of Detroit’s Project Green Light and its Greater Context."
License: Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International
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After the release of the Opening Data zine, we realized that there was so much we still did not understand about how data affected people - especially marginalized communities. So, we began working on a few community research projects. First, the Detroit Open Data Portal, looking into how open data can potentially harm or benefit communities. Then, Our Data Bodies (O.D.B), which is currently conducting interviews with residents in four cities across the U.S. to gain insight on how marginalized adults view personal data collection.
Opening Data 2 shares what we discovered through these projects and ways that you can engage others in thinking about data in your communities. We are working toward a digital future that respects the privacy and security of all of us - not just those that are digitally literate or in privileged communities.
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Community Technology focuses on teaching strategies that make learning technology accessible and relevant.
This 100+ page handbook will take you through the history of popular education while offering a step-by-step guide to developing community rooted technology workshops and curricula.
Donate here to support this work.
Digital literacy Teaching and facilitation
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The "(Re)Building Technology" zine presents a collection of tools, stories and practices that support the growth and development of the community technology movement.
The zine explores digital justice issues, community facilitation best practices, collaborative network design, and examples of projects from Belarus, Detroit, Red Hook, India and more.
Teaching and facilitation Wireless Networks
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At the end of 2014, the Open Technology Institute and the Detroit Community Technology Project initiated the Community Technology Partnership and began awarding SEED grants to civil society organizations in different parts of the world. We are now reflecting on this process, documenting our understandings and practices, and reporting lessons learned and methods we believe play a crucial role in supporting civil society groups.
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The "(Re)Building Technology" zine presents a collection of tools, stories and practices that support the growth and development of the community technology movement.
The zine explores digital justice issues, community facilitation best practices, collaborative network design, and examples of projects from Belarus, Detroit, Red Hook, India and more.
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This beautifully designed guidebook presents reflections and resources from three years of the Detroit Future Media program.
The guidebook introduces the concept of "digital literacy" and its role in community revitalization. It provides a history of the Detroit Future Media program and its impact, core ideas, program structure, and curriculum samples for you to use and adapt!
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The fourth volume of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition's zine series. This issue gives step-by-step instructions and resources for organizing "DiscoTechs" (Discovering Technology fairs).
Teaching and facilitation
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A collective resource for digital stewardship, digital justice and community infrastructure. These resources emphasize self-governance, participatory learning, collaborative design and sustainability. As we learn and new people contribute, these resources will grow and change over time and we welcome contributions.
Digital literacy Wireless Networks
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The “Opening Data” zine offers a primer on open data, real-world examples of data discrimination, use cases of data in organizing, creative data storytelling, and more.
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