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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. The app also tracks response time from report to volunteer arrival and is shared with OpenData SF. Tracking Career Paths. Healthy Living.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

As corporate algorithms minutely track each driver’s labor, workers are vulnerable to dismissal without recourse in response to customer dissatisfaction. Drivers talked about their dream to somehow run their own app as an alternative to Uber. For now, a large part of their efforts is in the political arena: In 2020, labor spent $5.28

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

So there is a green wave going to be coming through California and what we want to do is make sure that it also hits the Oakland area and, in addition, that the people who benefit from this green economy are the people who need those jobs the most. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. How do I do it?"

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