Nota de Repúdio
A Ashoka Brasil assinou uma carta de repúdio à uma fala dita no dia 07/10 pelo candidato à presidência Jair Bolsonaro - PSL.
Who Will Win the Duel? - Building Full Information Citizenship
Editor's note: This post was written by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, contributing editor at Ashoka Changemakers®, and originally featured on the Idea exChange Blog. It's a duel, quite possibly to the death. The bad guys: Censorship, surveillance, sabotage, fraud. The good guys: Freedom, access to...
An Open Letter to our Community on Racial Justice
This is a moment of reckoning. Ashoka U recognizes that the pain and suffering of today has roots in a long history of wide-ranging, everyday social and racial injustice. It’s critical to publicly acknowledge the toxic effect of institutionalized white supremacy that has tainted our collective...
Impact Monday - We need more anger to solve violence
Well-aimed, well-dosed, well-channeled, and well-timed, anger can create a lot of beauty and new things. It is best not to polish it too much, because then the fuel will be sucked out with it, but it should also not remain in its too rough form, because it can be painful and harmful. Anger in its...
When Police Brutality And Digital Rights Collide – Lessons From Nigeria
Gbenga Sesan, founder of Paradigm Initiative, warns there's an upsurge of online censorship and digital clampdowns, following the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
AI, Solidarity and the Future of Humanity
A conversation about why outsourcing the moral responsibilities of AI is not an option. Miguel Luengo, AI expert, entrepreneur and chief scientist at UN Global Pulse, speaks with Konstanze Frischen, Ashoka’s global leader on Tech & Humanity. "I argue that we need to move to a humanity centric AI. If...
The Erosion of Privacy, And Why We Need a New Social Contract
Ashoka Fellow Sascha Meinrath explains how government and business are spying on us, and why we need to update our understanding of what is right and wrong in the digital age. "We need a mindset shift. We need to work together towards a renewed, 21st Century, social contract – a fresh understanding...
Tech & Democracy: Why we must update the social contract for the digital age
On January 13th, we talk to Albert Fox Cahn, founder of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), about the threats and opportunities of surveillance technology, and why we must update the social contract for the digital age. This conversation is part of our biweekly series where we tap...