Take Action

Get involved in an organization dedicated to fighting technological injustice. Here are some of the ones we think highly of:

• Algorithmic Justice League

• Fight for the Future

• Data & Society

• Data 4 Black Lives

Now more than ever we need socially-conscious engineers taking seats at the table and building alternatives. Here are some data science training programs that put equity at the center of their work:

• Data Science for All

• Black Girls Code

• HarvardX's course on Critical Thinking in Data Science

Choose ethical tech when possible. We know it is hard to breakup with Amazon, Uber, and Facebook. Here are some resources to help:

• Kim Komando's How to Get Away From Big Tech

• Gizmodo's "I Cut the Big Five Tech Giants From My Life"

• Grow Ensemble's 6 Alternatives to Amazon

• Cancel Prime

Ask your local schools to include algorithmic bias in their STEM programs. In the digital era, tech literacy should begin at birth. A People’s Guide to Tech (an unrelated organization) creates books, guides, workshops, and creative resources for education.

Lobby your local university or alma mater to make social-justice focused technology ethics a core curricular program.

Pressure your local representatives to break up big tech and regulate autonomous technologies.

Spread the word on social media, on campus, and in your local political spaces.