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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

We addressed these problems through data investigations and corrections, and enhancements to how we sample data. At an organizational level, evaluations can help to establish ethics policies for what AI can be used for and what appropriate use looks like. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Personal and Professional Identity: Social Media Policies for Nonprofits. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. I was joined today for a panel at SXSW to discuss the blurry or blurring lines of personal and professional identify online. With me on the panel was Debra Askanase, Jess Main, and Vanessa Rhinesmith.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Human Rights Program policies: what are contingency/crisis plans for our staff? We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: You Say Drupal, I Say Joomla. Can't We All Just Get Along?

NTEN

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Amy Sample Ward took up the discussion on her blog. . David wrote this response.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view. "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware.

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