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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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The 5 Levels of Chatbot Safety & Unregulated Autonomous School Buses 

Whole Whale

AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models. For the relationship level, AI chatbot provides greetings and routes teens to human counselors who then provide advice. The chatbot has no real understanding of the crisis details. Close monitoring is required.

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Providence Public Library: “A Most Democratic Insitution”

DipJar

She came to the library right before a significant capital campaign to transform the library into “an open source, people’s university” and hasn’t looked back since. As with many other things in life, this plan was derailed by the pandemic. In that role, she is responsible for marketing, communications, and fundraising.

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